Note: <888> 04/30/09 Thursday 7:05 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I faxed the Microsoft Money report to the relative.  I chatted with somebody in Columbus, Ohio about the price of tea in China.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good night.  Showers until Tuesday.   CIO 

Note: <888> 04/30/09 Thursday 5:35 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  I went to my regular Thursday 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by CVS, and I picked up two prescriptions.  I also bought four 6.4 ounce Crest regular paste cavity protection for $1.99 each and .48 tax for $8.44 total.  I got two dollars in Bonus Bucks, so I got another tube of the same.  I then returned home to Shangri-La.  I ate the last piece of apple pie with some watered down passion punch.  I printed out my Microsoft Money 2007 April 2009 income versus spending monthly report.  I will fax it later to a relative.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/30/09 Thursday 1:05 P.M..  Flush Out Dangerous Plaque Safely and Naturally!

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Note: <888> 04/30/09 Thursday 11:25 A.M..  I am making the same dinner as yesterday.  I will also have a cup of Twinings Earle Grey tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/30/09 Thursday 10:25 A.M..  I chatted with a relative.

The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for Newegg.com - maxell 700MB 48X CD-R 100 Packs Spindle Disc - CD / DVD Media for $17.99 with free shipping arrived.  I put the disks on the floor beneath the primary Vista computer keyboard.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/30/09 Thursday 9:40 A.M..  http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/30/netherlands.queen.car/index.html

Note: <888> 04/30/09 Thursday 9:00 A.M..  I woke up at midnight, and I ate a piece of apple pie with passion punch.  I then went back to bed until 4 A.M..  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I installed Internet Explorer 8.0 on all of the computers, and I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on the second partition on the Gigabyte bedroom computer.   All systems seem to be running just fine.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon.  I also installed two new AA alkaline batteries in the Microsoft wireless mouse on the Epox computer.  I also put all of the used batteries left on the shelf of the bedroom sideboard in a plastic bag on the floor to the left the bedroom sideboard stand.  CIO  

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

Note: <888> 04/29/09 Wednesday 5:50 P.M..  Scientists spot oldest ever object in universe - CNN.com

WHO raises pandemic alert to second-highest level - CNN.com  CIO

Note: <888> 04/29/09 Wednesday 5:40 P.M..  I picked up the mail.  I chatted with neighbors.  I threw out the garbage.  Today, when I was downtown for my walk, I stopped by the new COLLECTION - Bang & Olufsen on lower Greenwich Avenue STORE LOCATOR - Bang & Olufsen just south of the wine bar underneath the Greenwich Financial Center, and I told them about other Danish people in the area.  I was told yesterday, by the construction engineers working on remodeling the People's Bank on lower Greenwich Avenue, they are finding remnants of the old Gulf Oil station that use to be there.  I think there is also a Scandinavian furniture shop across from CVS on Greenwich Avenue.  Since it is cold here in the winter and cold in Scandinavia, it seems when the Scandinavians leave their homes, they tend to go where it is warmer, and they do not pay much attention to us anymore.

Note: <888> 04/29/09 Wednesday 3:00 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I chatted with a foreign visitor about high tech.  I stopped by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought four 10 ounce Palmolive antibacterial dish washing detergents for .88 each and .21 tax for $3.73 total.  I used the bathroom at the Senior and the arts center after my walk.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf station, and I bought $11 of self service premium for $2.559 a gallon for 4.297 gallons for 55 miles driving since a week ago last Saturday at odometer reading of 62,512 miles for 12.8 miles per gallon driving.  I then cleaned the outside windows, and I checked the tire pressure all around for 32 PSI.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a package of White Gem boneless breasts of chicken for $1.79 a pound for $6.19, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, fresh green Chiquita bananas for $.68 a pound for $2.05, broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $2.01, a five pound bag of red potatoes for $3.99 for $17.23 total.  I then returned home.  I put away my purchases.  It was not very busy downtown today, so I guess at the end of the month in a recession not many people in Greenwich, Connecticut have any money left.  I will now make my usual breaded boneless chicken breast with my usual vegetable mixture with olive oil, which I will eat with a glass of watered down passion punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/29/09 Wednesday 10:05 A.M..  I saw the big pink breast cancer bus parked on Railroad Avenue at the bottom of Greenwich Avenue yesterday.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out and walk downtown and try to lose some weight.  My neighbor's relative from Naples, Florida thinks it is cold here this morning.  Apparently now is a good time to buy Florida real estate in these economically depressed times.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/29/09 Wednesday 9:50 A.M..  Hirohito (emperor of Japan) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

I.B.M. Raises Its Quarterly Dividend 10% - NYTimes.com

Note: <888> 04/29/09 Wednesday 9:00 A.M..  I woke up last night at midnight, and I ate the same London Broil dinner that I have been eating recently.  I woke up at 6 A.M. this morning.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/28/09 Tuesday 6:30 P.M..  I microwaved and ate a Boston Market 15 ounce pot roast dinner, which I ate with a 1/6th piece of apple pie and glass of watered down passion punch.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good evening, and stay cool.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/28/09 Tuesday 5:40 P.M..  I chatted with a friend.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/28/09 Tuesday 4:55 P.M..  The current temperature in my living room is 72.7 degrees Fahrenheit with the air conditioner going.  It is 88 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now.  However, my apartment on the second floor has 4 four foot by eight foot windows that face the afternoon western sun above a flat black roof of the first floor, so the actual temperature in the sun outside my apartment windows is 105.4 degrees Fahrenheit, which is why I need the heavy duty air conditioner installed this early in the spring time.  Since I have lived here for 20 years, I tend to know what is best for my apartment as opposed to some government bureaucrat that has never even been here.  The second teeth whitening product arrived in the mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/28/09 Tuesday 4:30 P.M..  I woke up at 7:45 A.M..  I went outside, and I chatted with the building custodian.  He told me to telephone in a work order to get my air conditioner out of storage which I did.  I chatted with neighbors.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  About 9 A.M., the building custodian got my General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner with remote control out of storage.  He offered me, a four year old 11,500 BTU Panasonic model, but I decided the keep my more powerful unit.  I vacuumed out the rust and other debris from inside the unit, and I straightened some of the metal fins.  I installed the air conditioner in the center living room window where it has been in past years, and it works just fine.  I sealed it up with the Plexiglas, duct tape, and towels, so it does not leak air.  I put the bric-a-brac back into place.  It took about 3 hours to install.  I chatted with two relatives.  I set the air conditioner at 64 degrees low fan with the two tower fans also blowing the air around the apartment.  I also had used the bobby pins to hold up the curtain above it.  I ate lunch of two hot dogs with buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with Bill Clark Greenwich Gossip, and he has new book about Greenwich, Connecticut for sale in our local book stores.  We chatted, and we figured we use to be neighbors.  Bill's father was the minister at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Wellesley, Massachusetts on Vincent Road next to Dana Hall in the same period when my family lived on Vincent Road.  Somebody that looked like former President Bush asked us how to get to town hall for a beach permit.  I finished my walk, and I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO     

Note: <888> 04/28/09 Tuesday 2:15 A.M..  Partly cloudy and a high of 85 degrees Fahrenheit today, and then it cools down to regular temperatures in the 60s for another week.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go back to bed.

Note: <888> 04/28/09 Tuesday 1:35 A.M..  I currently do not have the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner installed in my apartment yet.  I took it out for the first time this past winter, so I could have a warmer apartment.  With the warmer days, it is now 80 degrees Fahrenheit in my apartment, which is a bit warm for me, and it is also a bit warm for the computers.  Some time in the near future, they are suppose to install double pane windows in the building, but they have not yet told us when.  I could check with the building custodian that put the air conditioner in storage to see if it is easy enough to get out now.  It would take about three to four hours for me to install it properly, which would be a lot more comfortable if they do not get around to the double pane windows anytime soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/28/09 Tuesday 1:10 A.M..  Reagan Diaries-Unabridged 2 Vol Set $150

Note: <888> 04/28/09 Tuesday 12:15 A.M..  I ate a piece of apple pie after the hot dogs earlier.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/27/09 Monday 11:35 P.M..  I woke up at 7 P.M..  I ate two hot dogs with buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips with a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I threw out the garbage, and I picked up the mail. The Colo flush arrived, and I have not been charged a $4.99 shipping charge on it.  I do not intend to use it.  I chatted with a relative.  I made my bed.  I went out, and I chatted with a neighbor and a visitor from Naples, Florida.  I went downtown, and I went by my regular Chase bank.  I then went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  There were hardly any people out.  Starbucks was closed, so I had no place to go to the bathroom, so I returned home.  I noticed during my walk this morning, that they have removed the two wooden benches from in front of the old Border's book store, so there is no longer any place to sit there anymore.  CIO     

Note: <888> 04/27/09 Monday 1:05 P.M..  After I ate, I viewed the pictures.  I chatted with a relative.  I drank some watered down passion punch.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go back to bed or nap.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/27/09 Monday 10:05 A.M..  I woke up at 3:30 A.M. this morning.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I surfed the internet.  I went out at 6 A.M., and I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  During my walk, I took pictures of the tulip beds and some of the new construction around town.  I used the bathroom at the USB bank on Lafayette Place. After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and I took some pictures.  On the way back up Steamboat Road, I saw a green GMC come out of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club.  Just before the Royal Bank of Scotland, after the green GMC passed by two oncoming vehicles, a black GMC coming down Steamboat Road collided with a blue sports car that was behind it trying to pass it the left of the black GMC off the road, so at my distance, I could not tell who was at fault or if they were traveling too fast.  I returned home, and I chatted with neighbors.  It was quite busy downtown. 

The 296 pictures are at:  http://mikelouisscott.com/gw-042609/ .

I will now eat the same London Broil dinner that I have been eating recently.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/26/09 Sunday 11:35 P.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  High tomorrow 74 degrees Fahrenheit and mostly cloudy.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/26/09 Sunday 11:05 P.M..  I ate a ham, turkey, and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with mayo and 1/3rd of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips, and a dill pickle slice and watered down passion punch and a piece of apple pie.

As I recalling during the last flu pandemic 1918 flu pandemic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , 20 million to 100 million people died in a worldwide population of 2 billion, so that means three time that number could died today, and if effected mostly young people with strong immune systems.

I chatted with a medical friend who told me that wearing face masks does not really help, but I suppose it would be better than nothing.

Note: <888> 04/26/09 Sunday 9:50 P.M..  About Swine flu United States Department of Health and Human Services

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Note: <888> 04/26/09 Sunday 9:35 P.M..  I woke up at 5:30 P.M..  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I read the recent computer periodical literature, and then I threw them out.  I still have to read the recent issues of www.forbes.com .  I chatted with neighbors.  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/26/09 Sunday 10:50 A.M..  Pharmacy admits to mistakenly preparing meds for Polo horses : State News : TCPalm

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

Note: <888> 04/26/09 Sunday 9:55 A.M..  I went out after the last note.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  The tulips at the veterans monument across from the senior and the arts center are about half way out, and they are a pinky reddish color.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought three 12 packs of Thomas' English muffins for $1.99 a twelve pack for $5.97 total.  I then used the bathroom at CVS.  I then bought a 3M Command Designer Medium Hooks 2 hook package and four strips for $2.50 and .15 tax for $2.65 total.  I then finished my walk, and I sat out for a while enjoying the warm sunny morning.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 64 ounce container of Ocean Spray cranberry juice for $2.50, a 64 ounce container of Ocean Spray Cran Grape for $2.50, a 64 ounce container of Florida Natural Orange juice with calcium for $3, and a day old apple pie for $2.50 for $10.50 total.  I then returned home.  I introduced myself to a new neighbor.  I gave another neighbor two cigarettes.  I put away my purchases.  I put one of the 3M hooks on the left side of the left monitor on the primary Vista computer to hold the headset from the Dell Latitude CS laptop computer next to it.  I have to wait an hour before, I can hang it.  I will now eat a piece of apple pie with watered down passion punch.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/26/09:

Note: <888> 04/26/09 Sunday 6:00 A.M..  Big Island: Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and Volcano House tell two stories - Los Angeles Times

Hubble Space Telescope (astronomy) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

I put away the laundry.

Note: <888> 04/26/09 Sunday 5:00 A.M..  I showered, and I cleaned up before doing laundry.  I ate 20 dried apricots during the last few days.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/26/09 Sunday 4:45 A.M..  I woke up yesterday at 2:30 P.M..  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I chatted with two friends.  One friend was washing a horse, and the other friend was putting his boat in the water.  I went back to bed until 8:00 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a relative.  I watched a Harry Potter movie, until 11 P.M..  I ate a ham, turkey, and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with mayo and 1/3rd of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips, and a dill pickle slice and watered down passion punch.  I went back to bed until 2:30 A.M..  I made up a batch of passion punch.  I started the two tower fans in the living room to cool it off a bit.  It is 78 degrees Fahrenheit inside, which makes me a bit tired.  I took the comforters and electric blanket off the bed, and I put clean linens on the bed along with the summer quilt.  I took the comforters off the back of the sofa, and I put the throws on the back of the sofa.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 35 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I threw out the garbage, and I picked up the mail.  The Easy White teeth whitener arrived in the mail that I was swindled into paying $27 for.  CIO       

Note: <888> 04/25/09 Saturday 6:00 A.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  High today of 79 degrees Fahrenheit and partly cloudy.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/25/09 Saturday 3:40 A.M..   I drank a cup of salada tea with splenda and lemon juice after dinner.  I saw someone that looked like Jimmy Eldert walking downtown this past evening.  He still has longer shoulder length hair, but he looks to be heavier and in better shape than I am.  He was carrying a back pack.  Possibly he returned from California, since with www.gm.com going bankrupt, he is out of money in his trust fund.  Still, he looks like he would have the energy to build a car, if he put his mind to it.  I heard on the news today, Mic Jagger's portfolio is down 25% and Paul McCartney's portfolio is down 12%, and they both are going to have to start touring again to make enough money to make ends meet back in England.

I also heard on www.foxnews.com that if Obama is in office for 8 years, he plans to spend $35 trillion in which case more than likely the United States of America would be completely bankrupt, and the U.S. dollar would not be worth anything anymore.  Obviously they are not practicing sound economic policy in Washington D.C. or anywhere in the world in the liberal community.  With 6.6 billion people on the planet, the economic system has to be managed with a sense of reality, and not utopian ideals that we can not afford.

I live more simply than most people in America, so maybe more people will have to get use to living simply the way I do.  Of course by the average Chinese way of thinking I probably have a higher standard of living.

The celebrities we hear and read about seem to have more money, but they are usually trying sell products that the average people can not afford such as movie tickets and high priced items.

From my viewpoint as a professional economist, the economy could get worse, but with the weakening value of the dollar, one might seem to get more money, but it is actually worth less.   Of course like the times of prosperity, they hoped for a trickle down effect for the poor people, maybe in times of recession there will be a trickle down effect for the richer people to be more like the poorer people.  Of course, there always seems to be an establishment that has money, when most people do not.

I can remember when an apple cost a nickel, and today it costs a dollar, so from my viewpoint, people living on fixed incomes without major adjustments for real inflation and with increased costs of goods services are particularly hard hit in these times of recession.  I seem to get by, because I just maintain my current environment, and I try to avoid any major expenses despite the fact, I can not really afford them and have no means of changing my standard of living.  Even the poor people downtown that I deal with seem to have a higher standard of living than I do, but I do spend a good deal of my lesser income on communications and computers, which most people whom sit in Starbucks drinking expensive coffee do not do, since it is costly to maintain a home office not to mention the time that it takes to run.

However, I never earned any money off the computer activity, it was just my means of staying active and keeping up with the current technology that many of the working population has adopted over the years.  In the news media a lot of the stories come from the news wire services, and thus many news organization do not actually collect much news or even publish local news.  Much of the news is paid for, so people can advertise other areas and products and services that others might be unaware of.

I do see people downtown at night, but not as many people seem to be walking around anymore.  The restaurants are less busy, but they still have activity as do the pubs.  Starbucks seems less busy at night.  There is not very much traffic downtown at night.  However, this is the New York City metropolitan area, so there are always people moving around at all hours of the day, despite the recession, because essential services have to be maintained.   CIO

Note: <888> 04/25/09 Saturday 1:25 A.M..  CNET | Community Help & how-to  and Process Explorer

Note: <888> 04/24/09 Friday 11:55 P.M..  I was charged $19.99 to get the Easy White labs teeth whitener cancelled, but they will still send me the free sample, which is really not free.  I woke up at 2:30 P.M. this afternoon.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I went back to bed until 5:30 P.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up my mail.  I watered the plants, and I cleaned the Ionic air purifier.  I finally figured out something about the big stones on our old Lyon Farm property where the 71 Vinci Drive Greenwich Housing Authority property is.  There is a big 5 foot high stone on the southwest section of the property and in the woods on the northeast section of the property there is a big 4 foot high stone.  I once read that the border between New York and Connecticut or New Amsterdam and the New Haven Colony was once further east, so possibly they are boundary stones marking the border between the two jurisdictions.  In which case most of 71 Vinci Drive is on the New Amsterdam side of the border, and it looks like the border might cut right through the wing of the building that I am in, so I might be on the New Haven Colony side of the border as it was in the old days.   They probably used Oxen to move those big boulders, when they cleared the property for Lyon Farm.  The original Lyon Farm homestead building is still on the northwest corner of the property down by the Post Road across from the gas station that once was an Exxon station, but I am not sure what it is now.  I chatted with a relative.  The four unit Uniden phone set arrived at my relative's this past Wednesday.  They will deliver it to Maine some time in the near future.  Now that the Bushs are no longer in government; Kennebunkport, Maine will probably go back to being the simple lobster fishing town that it once was.  I ate two hotdogs on buns with mustard and ketchup and dill pickle slice and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations. After my walk, I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I found a Delamar Room key card on the statue stump in front of the senior and the arts center.  I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and there are a couple of fishermen that were able to squeeze by the New Jersey barricade on the end of Steamboat Road, so they can fish.  I dropped off the pass key card at the The Delamar on Greenwich Harbor , and they told me they are busy.  I then returned home to the quiet solitude of Byram, Connecticut where not much happens as far as the Maytag repairman is concerned.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/24/09 Friday 6:15 A.M..  The old Topping estate sold to the Helmsleys back in December 1983 for $18 million with its original 80 acres.  Now with half the acreage, it is for sale for $75 million Helmsley's Greenwich mansion: Now available for a bargain - Greenwich Time .  Although the house appears to be large on the outside, it is not a very deep house, and it actually is not too large inside.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go back to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/24/09 Friday 6:10 A.M..  I ate the last piece of pumpkin pie. 

Note: <888> 04/24/09 Friday 3:20 A.M..  I just woke up.  When one lives in the suburbs of New York City like I do way out here in Greenwich, Connecticut, there is not much to do, once one gets tired of watching television.  However, if one owns a car like people tend to do in the suburbs, and one manages to accumulate some money, one can always manager to take a road trip.  Having lived in Greenwich, Connecticut, since 1961, I know a few road trips.  My favorite short road trip is to drive up to New Canaan, Connecticut, but there is not too much to do in New Canaan.  I use to go to the Visiting  Nurse Thrift shop there next to the New Canaan fire station.  I got my Connecticut driver's license in New Canaan back in 1966, when I first learned how to drive.  One can always make a short trip from there to Ridgefield, Connecticut, which has a quiet library, where one can take a pit stop.  I tend not to go to Manhattan, Long Island, Boston, or Cape Cod too much because there is usually too much traffic.  Recently, since my family established a Kennebunkport, Maine residence, I drive a couple of times a summer to Kennebunkport, Maine and back.  In the days, when we were more adventuresome, one could always drive up to Canada to Toronto or Montreal.  If one goes up the New York Thruway, it is pretty easy to find Toronto.  I use to drive up Interstate 91 to White River Junction, Vermont and visit Darmouth Colllege in Hanover, New Hampshire, and then up to Montreal through Burlington, Vermont.  Another good trip if one has enough time and money was to drive down to Key West, Florida, and once one gets to the coast of Florida, there is a lot of scenery along A1A along the east coast of Florida.  A major trip is to drive across country to California.  In the warmer weather, one can drive across Interstate 70, and through the Rocky mountains, but a longer trip is drive across Interstate 10 in the Southwest, but once one gets to California, one tends to need money, and one gets tired of sleeping in one's car.  Possibly with the drug war on the Mexican border south of Interstate 10, California is isolated from the rest of the nation.  I did see a car from California on Greenwich Avenue yesterday.  Since I have lived in Nantucket and the Chicago area, I know how to drive to those locations, but there is a lot of traffic on Cape Cod in the summer, and Chicago is cold most of the year.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/23/09 Thursday 9:20 P.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will rest for a while.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/23/09 Thursday 7:50 P.M..  I woke up at 11 A.M., when I had a telemarketing phone call trying to sell me an extended warranty on my Audi.  They have been calling me up all of the time with their recording.  I got one this evening on my cell phone.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I chatted with a relative.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went to my usual 3 P.M. appointment.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store.  They have the same Kidde fire extinguishers for $50 that are $40 at Home Depot.  They have Giant Sun Flower seeds for $1 a package and they also have Morning Glory seeds for a $1 a package.  If one plants Giant Sun Flowers, it will attract a lot of birds.  The Morning Glories grow quite fast and will cover the whole side of a house if you tie them up to get them started.  They have the usual cross section of other seeds too.  The last time I planted a garden in the mid 1960s, seeds were 5 cents a package, so there has been 2000% inflation on seeds over the last 45 years or so.  I toured CVS, but I could not find any bargains to buy.  I saw the Mobil One Racing Team driving through town.  I sat out for a while.  I chatted with a few regulars.  I think the tulips across the street from the Senior and the Arts center at the veterans monument are on strike, because they have not come out yet.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then drove by the Greenwich Library, there is still space for rent in the remodeled old Cheeseborough Ponds building across the street.  I chatted with some staff.  I told the building custodian about the water surging up from the ground underneath the northeast support of the Cole Auditorium on the inside of the support.  It is a big support, so hopefully the building will not collapse, but one never knows how much water damage is done under the pavement and the ground.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor, and I picked up the mail.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now eat the same London Broil dinner as four of the last five nights.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/23/09 Thursday 5:45 A.M..  I will now go back to sleep.  I will get up around noon.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO

!!!! Note: <888> 04/23/09 Thursday 3:35 A.M..  All three of the promotions below are cons.  They charge you $78 after two weeks for the shipping of the product.  I was able to cancel the Teeth Whitening Pro and the Colo Flush, but the Easy White wants $20 to cancel, so I will try to contact them in the daytime, when they are available.  The web site Cathy's Tee was linked by www.cnn.com on their advertising on the internet, so I guess it goes to show what sort of people CNN deals with in trying to make money by robbing other people.  The web site Cathy's Tee says it comes from Greenwich, Connecticut, when you call them up, they are in an undisclosed location in Southeast Asia.  I will now eat the same London Broil dinner as the last three nights before last night.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/23/09 Thursday 2:25 A.M..  I woke up yesterday at 2 A.M. after the last note.

I ordered from Cathy’s Teeth Whitening Success the two different free tooth whitening items from here Teeth Whitening Pro for $4.99 shipping and Easy White Labs :: Professional Teeth Whitening Kit for $6.99 shipping.  I also ordered free trial Colo flush free trial for $4.99 shipping.  I chatted with a relative yesterday, and the relative who is a registered nurse advised me against taking the Colo Flush since it can lower the body's potassium.  At this page Coloflush Reviewed: Does Coloflush Work? , it says towards the bottom of the page underneath the "The Bad" by ordering the Free Trial, one is automatically enrolled in the Auto Shipping Plan, which I do not want.  I called them up at 1-866-225-1334, and I cancelled the order, so I will not be billed anymore.

I watched the end of a French Foreign Legion movie with John Claude Van Dam who use to also walk a white German Shepard.  He lives in Monte Carlo.  I went back to bed at 4:30 A.M..  I woke up at 2 P.M..  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I went back to bed until 4 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  I threw out the garbage, and I moved my car to its usual place.  I picked up the mail.  I ate two hot dogs with buns and mustard and ketchup and 1/3rd of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and watered down passion punch.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 10.8 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds for $3.50.  I ate some outside during my walk.  I finished my walk, and I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with staff and patrons.  One of the local users is able to layer modern Google Maps with Old Maps to compare historical images with today.  I had a cigarette outside by the auditorium, and I noticed with all of the rain that the water was surging up from underneath one of the support colums of the corner of the library auditorium probably undermining its strength over time.

I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought top round London Broil for $1.79 a pound for $7.07 and Chiquita bananas for .68 a pound for $2.32 for $9.39 total.  I then returned home.  I ate a 1/6th piece of pumpkin pie and about 7 ounce of smoked almonds and some watered down passion punch.  I went to bed from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M..

http://geocities.yahoo.com/gcp/ is going to shut down their web site later in the year, so I will no longer have my backup web site.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/22/09 Wednesday 12:35 A.M..   Cloudy this morning at sunrise to noon and rain in the afternoon with a high of 57 degrees Fahrenheit.  Dense Fog this morning National Weather Service Watch Warning Advisory Summary.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/21/09 Tuesday 10:40 P.M..  Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo To Report - Forbes.com

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Note: <888> 04/21/09 Tuesday 9:40 P.M..  I woke up at midnight, and I watched the movies Top Gun and War Games.  I went back to bed from 3:30 A.M. to noon.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went by the Chase Bank just West of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I have the next one on May 5, 2009.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a black Vtech two line 900 Mhz cordless telephone for $5.  It came with its battery pack and transformer and instructions.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  All of the tulips are pretty much out downtown except the ones at the Veterans monument across the street from the senior and the arts center.  It must be a bit shady over there.  After my walk, I sat out for a while, and I then used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then returned home.  I picked up the mail.  I moved the white AT&T lined telephone from the left of the primary Vista computer, and I put it on the left side of my bed connected to Optimum.  It is heavier, so the handset will not come off the set easier.  I moved the Columbia big button lined phone from that location to underneath the bed.  I moved the Uniden 2.8 MHz cordless telephone from the left side of the primary Vista computer, and I put it underneath the bed.  I removed the Plantronics Vista telephone headset from the left side of the computer, and I connected to the Panasonic two line corded telephone by the Harvard Chair.  It works just fine, but one has to press its button to use it with the Panasonic two line lined telephone that I use most of the time.  I moved Panasonic 5.8 GHz two line cordless telephone base station from behind the Harvard chair to the left side of the primary Vista computer connected up to both telephone lines.  I installed the Vtech 900 MHz two line cordless telephone behind the Harvard chairs, and it works just fine and holds a charge.  I dusted the phones that were dusty.

Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for Newegg.com - Isymphony NC2 Circumaural Noise Canceling Stereo Headphone for $8.99 with free shipping arrived about 6:30 P.M..  I used the RadioShack plug adapter, and I installed it to the cable coming from the amplifier, and I left the headphones to the right of the primary Vista computer.  I put in a AAA alkaline battery, so the noise cancellation feature works, when one turns it on.  I moved the older pair of Tandy headphones from that location to have available by the amplifier, if one plugs them in.   A few nights ago, I also put in two new AA alkaline batteries in the Logitech wireless mouse attached to the bedroom Gigabyte computer.

I chatted with a relative.  I threw out the shipping box, and I moved my car to another place closer to its usual place.  I ate a sliced ham, turkey, and cheese sandwich on a bulkie roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch and a cup of Salada green tea with splenda sweetener and a couple of teaspoons of lemon juice.  CIO     

Note: <888> 04/20/09 Monday 11:00 P.M..  I ate the same dinner as last night, but I also ate box of Green Giant spinach with olive oil.  I watched some www.foxnews.com .  With the rain this evening, there is low barometric pressure which make me feel tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will rest for a while.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/20/09 Monday 8:50 P.M..  Susan Boyle Could Make Millions - Forbes.com

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Note: <888> 04/20/09 Monday 7:55 P.M..  I woke up at noon today, when I had a telephone call from a relative about this story Officials suspect drug reaction or toxins in Florida horse deaths - CNN.com .  I left a message with two other friends.  I went back to bed until 3:30 P.M.. For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.

Note: <888> 04/20/09 Monday 3:55 A.M..  I ate a 1/6th piece of pumpkin pie.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Also the budget is tighter, since the George Weston Bakeries Arnold Bread Outlet is no longer in Byram nearby anymore, but at 203 pounds, I am not starving.  I actually could stand to lose about 20 pounds or more, but with all of the walking that I do, it makes me hungry.  Only about four tulips are out at the veterans monument downtown, and they look to be red ones and white ones.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/20/09 Monday 3:05 A.M..  Snow is still available Adopt a Dog - North Shore Animal League America White German Shepherd Mix .  I was walking Julie Bolton's Daughter Lisa's White German Shepard that came from the North Shore Animal League for about two years from 1980 to 1982 in Manhattan, and Silver was quite a smart dog like a Guide Dog, Silver use to lead me around and keep me out of trouble.  As I recall Silver was a male full breed white German Shepard dog, and Silver was very alert around all of the pedestrian traffic in Manhattan.  The night Ronald Reagan first showed up in Manhattan after being elected President, I walked Silver through Central Park at night over to the Waldorf Astoria, and all of the secret service agents were so excited to see Silver, they took pictures of Silver with a Polaroid camera.  Julie Bolton's father lived in Santa Barbara, California after he divorced Vivian West in the 1930s, so Silver had a California connection.  On the way back through Central Park that evening, there was a big commotion by the Dakota where Lisa worked in the liquor store, and I later learned that John Lennon had been shot.  Lisa dated a Chinese taxi cab driver whose family had a silk business in Peking, China, and she was the first American to work as a flight attendant for China airlines, so she has probably seen a few places around the world.  John her secretive older brother does not communicate enough, since he is very secretive, but more than likely he could be elsewhere.  The last time, he stopped by about five years ago, he was wearing a U.S. Embassy in Thailand red T shirt from where his father worked before retiring from the U.S. State Department www.state.gov .  Vivian West's mother, John's great grandmother was part of the Kaiser of Germany's consular staff in Manhattan before World War I, and Vivian knew Billy Baldwin a friend of the Duke of Windsor.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/20/09 Monday 2:10 A.M..  Prince Charles all dressed up on his 60th birthday The Royal Family > The Prince of Wales> Background .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/20/09 Monday 1:30 A.M..  The renovated building at the top of Greenwich Avenue on the west side where the "V" jewelry store now is occupied and completed.   The old Lowes movie theatre across the street from Richards is being gutted for some new Greenwich Avenue enterprise.  I finished defragmenting the C: drive on the bedroom Gigabyte computer, and I shut it down.

The state of my current computer setup is still at: http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm .  I do not expect it to change any time in the future, since on limited income with a recession, I am just maintaining what I have in stock.  I have to make www.geico.com automobile insurance payments for the next three months through July 2009, and cigarettes also went up $7 a carton with the new Federal Tax, so possibly I need to think about quitting smoking or cutting way back.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/20/09 Monday 1:00 A.M..  I finished the backups on the bedroom Gigabyte computer, and I am now defragmenting the C: drive.  I noticed at the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf station next to the Greenwich Library, when one fills up the tank, one has to first select Debit or Credit before sliding one's card, so the gasoline pump knows which type of transaction one wants to perform.

From my viewpoint, not much is going on in Greenwich, and there is hardly anyone at Starbucks at night anymore, and there does not seem to be much dining activity or pup or movie activity, so it is a slower town downtown at night.  However, there always seems to be just as much traffic on Interstate 95 all of the time, so people are still moving around in this area, but whether they are doing anything in terms of work or not, it is hard to tell.  I do not go down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road regularly anymore, since when gasoline was $5.50 a gallon, I got use to not going down there.  It is always an enjoyable exercise walk on Greenwich Avenue, when one does not have to pay to park.  The new building across the street from the Sun Down saloon is all framed in, and the exterior seems to be mostly done, and they are now doing the interior work.  The building at the bottom west side of Greenwich Avenue where the People Bank is, and the Ronald Reagan campaign headquarters use to be and the old Gulf Station once was is suppose to undergo renovation and expansion, so they now have the People's Bank in a Williams trailer until the work is done.  The new building just south of Pickwick Plaza has its windows in, and it has its brick work done.  There does not seem to be much work going on where the GAP used to be, where Ralph Lauren is building a new store complex.  The new police and public safety building looks to be mostly completed, but it is not due for occupancy until July 2009.  The new condominium complex across from the Delamar Hotel looks to be mostly completed, but it does not yet look like it has been occupied yet.  They are suppose to spend a million dollars fixing up the Greenwich train stations and their platforms and walkways.  The two office buildings across from the Greenwich Library, both look like they have been renovated and occupied.  I know the old U.S. Tobacco building is occupied by three Hedge funds.  The Hamilton Avenue School in Byram is completed and occupied.  The new Byram Library is completed and occupied.  The Food Emporiums have been remodeled into A&P Fresh stores which are more upscale.  There is a new Super Stop and Shop on the Stamford side of the Old Greenwich border on U.S. 1, and there are shopping plazas across the street from it.

There use to be fabric, zipper, thread, and sewing accessory shop across from Cytec, but I am not sure if it is there anymore, but it use to have everything one would need for making clothing at home.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/19/09 Sunday 11:50 P.M..  Earlier, I ate a 1/6th piece of pumpkin pie before going out.  I just now ate the same dinner as last night, but for the vegetables I ate a package of Green Giant teriyaki vegetables.  Since the bedroom Gigabyte computer changed a bit when I installed the updates on this past Friday, I am now doing and internal and a external backup of it. 

The way that I figure it, since I have lived on the lower end of the economic scale in Greenwich, Connecticut for the last 26 years, I am better off doing things my way, as opposed to trying to keep up with the Jones are whomever still has money.  Since I have walked Greenwich Avenue for 26 years, since I moved off Nantucket where I also walked a lot, as I did in Manhattan and Key West, Florida, I am a somewhat experienced walker, particularly at night.  I use a car, since I live in a remote part of town, where there is no public transportation at night.  I pretty much have seen everyone in the world on Greenwich Avenue these last 26 years, but nobody ever seems to notice me, since I am good at blending into the crowds.  At night, it is like being the Maytag repairman.

I suppose the wealthier walkers in town still play golf, but I was told that in order to speed up play, one is required to use a motorized golf cart now.  When I lived in Decatur, Alabama before moving here in June 1961, I also walked a lot there as a youth, and I enjoyed bird watching.  At night I use my hearing a lot, since one can not always see as well at night.

Decatur, Alabama was about 20 miles south of Huntsville, Alabama, and Senator John Sparkman at the time was from Alabama, and he was the Senior Senator on the Senate Defense Committee, so he put www.nasa.gov in Huntsville, Alabama.  From what I know Greenwich, Connecticut is mostly a Wall Street town, so since I have a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Economics from www.lfc.edu , the business aspect of Greenwich, Connecticut makes sense to me knowing the larger overall picture in the New York Metropolitan area.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/09 Sunday 9:45 P.M.. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/04/19/wedeman.egypt.cleo.tomb.cnn  CIO

Note: <888> 04/19/09 Sunday 9:40 P.M..  The Original Fettuccine Alfredo

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Note: <888> 04/19/09 Sunday 9:15 P.M..  One of my relatives won a $2,000 coy display fish at a raffle.  The relative now has to protect the Coy pond with pellet guns to keep the great white egrets in the relative's area from eating the $2,000 coy display fish.

I went downtown after the last note.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area including the far side of the train station.  I saw Metro North coming and going in both directions and along with Amtrak going south.  The liberals in Boston whom think they run the world always take the Amtrak south from Boston on Sunday evenings to Washington D.C. picking up some of their liberal friends at Penn Station on the way down to D.C..  I guess they are modern day hobos.

During my walk, I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 100 ounce Tide Ultra 2x liquid detergent for $10.99 and .66 tax for $11.65 total.  There were a few dog walkers out and about and that was about it.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks, and I sat out for a while.  I then returned home.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/19/09 Sunday 5:50 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I chatted with neighbors.  I put away the laundry.  I went outside a few times.  I will now eat two hotdog with buns and mustard and ketchup and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I will shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for a walk after I eat.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/19/09 Sunday 4:00 P.M..  I watched a program from midnight until 2 A.M. about King Arthur.  Apparently, the Saxons took over England for about the last 1500 years, and the real English live in Wales and Brittany.  I woke up at 7 A.M. when a friend called.  I went back to bed until 12:30 P.M..  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I am doing two loads of laundry with 5 minutes to go on the wash cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with neighbors.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/18/09 Saturday 11:55 P.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer.  I will watch some television, and then I will go to bed.  Have a good night.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/18/09:

Note: <888> 04/18/09 Saturday 11:10 P.M..  Albert Einstein (American physicist) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

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I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/18/09 Saturday 10:50 P.M..  I ate a 1/6th piece of pumpkin pie and a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/18/09 Saturday 8:30 P.M..  I woke up at noon.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.   I made my bed.  I took down the flags off the hallway bookcases, and I put them in the lower bedroom Rubbermaid hamper.  That way the hallway looks more spacious.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  The tulips as they got older were causing me allergy problems, so I gave them to a neighbor to plant.  I chatted with neighbors.  I rehooked up the little miniature jump start system the Audi, so it might be available for jump starts.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I returned the Que book on Windows Vista SP1.  I read P.C. Magazine.  I chatted with the regular library security guard whom is back from Vero Beach, Florida after a year and a half.  He told me it rough down there, and he lost about 50 pounds.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a young woman from Russia, who told a lot of Russians live in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York, which I knew.  I chatted about my web site, and I gave them a calling card.  I browsed CVS, but there were no bargain.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I chatted with a local who told me he does not recognize anyone anymore.  I went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf station, and they had a $8.8 million dollar lottery winner.  I put $11 of self service premium at $2.559 a gallon for 4.297 gallons at odometer reading of 62, 456 miles for 59.5 miles driving since last Saturday at 13.8468 miles per gallon this past week.  I then cleaned the outside of my windows, and I checked the tires for 32 PSI.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a large yesterday's pumpkin pie for $4, a six pack of yesterday's bulkie rolls for $1.25, a dozen Jumbo eggs for $2.49 expire May 24, 2009, top round London Broil for $1.79 a pound for $5.62, and fresh Chiquita bananas for .68 a pound for $1.26 for $14.62 total.  I then put my groceries in the car, and I went back into the store, and I bought four buy one get one free of Hebrew National reduced fat hotdogs for $5.29 for two for $10.58 total.  I then returned home.  I brought up my groceries, and there was no mail.  I put away my groceries.  I chatted with a relative.  Another relative that was driving through the area called at 5:30 P.M., when they were eating nearby at McDonalds, and they are now out of the area. 

I will now eat about a 10 ounce piece of sautéed top round London Broil with flavored rice and steamed and Green Giant frozen broccoli with olive oil and watered down passion punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/18/09 Saturday 5:15 A.M..  Well I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go back to bed.  It is suppose to be up to 69 degrees Fahrenheit and cloudy today.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/18/09 Saturday 4:55 A.M..  One of my friends in Manhattan has so few English speaking friends, that she is going to try to teach English as a second language, so she has more people to talk to.  When I lived in Key West, Florida it was like living in a foreign country, since nobody spoke English, and I spent most of my time speaking French to French Canadians and Haitians.  Most people down there speak Spanish.  I knew a couple of other people that spoke English, but one of them knew Spanish, so I spent most of my time chatting with the other person that spoke English.  When I was in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, most people spoke Spanish, and I tried to communicate to them in French which is similar, but when I met Rhone Dietrin who knew English, Norwegian, and Spanish, I had someone to talk to.  We have a lot of English communications around here, but most of it comes out of Manhattan.  I am not sure how many people speak English here, since when I walk downtown, I do not hear that many people speaking English.  It is sort of strange since the official language of the United States is English, but in a wealthy community near New York not many people seem to know English.  I suppose the newer people here are from Europe, where they speak quite a few different languages.  Well I still have a few friends and relatives in this area that speak English, so it is not like I do not have anyone to talk to. 

The Scott family have a presence in Canada too, so if one gets tired of talking about American trivia, one can always visit Toronto, Ontario, Canada to practice English, but it is colder up there.  There are quite a few Canadians in Chicago, Illinois where it is colder, and most of my teachers at www.lfc.edu were Canadian, so possibly I am better networked with the Canadians than I realize.  Well at least it is warmer down here, and I do not have to deal with all of the wild animals up in Canada.  Also they have a lot of ice storms in Toronto, but they have about 40 miles of underground pedestrians shopping areas, so one does not always have to go outside in the cold.

Of course I knew quite a few Canadians in Key West, Florida.  I see quite a few Canadians in Kennebunkport, Maine.  The last time I visited Washington D.C. around 1991, they had built a new Canadian Embassy near the Capital with lots of security.  Apparently they gets lots of refugees there applying for political asylum. 

I never figured out where the Canadian consulate was in Manhattan, but they probably have one there.  Fred http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm lived near the Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Iranian, German and British consulates, so I guess I saw a lot of people from that area in the old days.  However, I was more popular in Manhattan when the Republicans held the White House and the Thatcher Tory government were in office in England.  However, the way the liberals are messing up the world, the conservatives might be back in office sooner than later.  People tend to vote their pocket books, not their television viewing habits.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/18/09 Saturday 4:30 A.M..  I made two copies of the QUE Vista CD, and I put them on the shelf below the stereo system.  I enabled Vista Aero, so I have clear type fonts.  I also enabled the screen saver again.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/18/09 Saturday 2:45 A.M.. Danger For Swedish Pirates - Forbes.com

Note: <888> 04/18/09 Saturday 2:00 A.M..  I woke up at midnight.  I watched some www.foxnews.com .  I ate two hotdogs with buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I also drank a cup of salada tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I cleaned the Ionic Pro air purifier quite well, but it still makes a slight buzzing sound like there is dust in the air.  My allergies have been bothering me, so I guess it is the beginning of the allergy season, but hopefully we will get some rain soon, and that will lessen the pollen in the air.  Back in the old days living in Manhattan, Nantucket, Key West, and Lanzarote was easier for allergies.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/17/09 Friday 7:05 P.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will take a nap or I will go back to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/17/09 Friday 6:50 P.M..  I ate a sliced ham, turkey, and cheese sandwich on a bulkie roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I watered the plants.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. 

Note: <888> 04/17/09 Friday 5:25 P.M..  I woke up at 10:30 A.M. this morning, when I had two no person telephone calls.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.   I made my bed.  I cleaned the Sony Juke Box with the AT&T CD lens cleaner.  One runs track four to clean it, which I did a few times.  I installed the Windiows updates on all nine computers.  While doing that, I had listened to some music.  I noticed that MP3s do not play as clearly as regular CDs on the Sony Juke box, but it is good enough for my purposes.  I used three 3M Command sticky strips, and I hung hooks on the primary Vista, the Abit, and the Epox computers for headsets and headphones.  Yes beside using the internet, one had to do a lot of computer maintenance in my current apartment setup.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/16/09 Thursday 3:55 A.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I am on a limited income, so it is expensive to go downtown every day, even on nice days.  There are very few people here that I have not already seen before.  It is the nature of the Ivy League with all of their smart people with connections that they frequently think they run the world, until they are put to the test, but they frequently have money, so they can hire smarter people to get their way.  I was told today by an advisor that the Scientologists flood the courts in law suits with lots of nonsense paper work from inexpensive graduate law students.  There might be a cleaver way of ending that by charging a per page fee for legal briefs.  I know Cyrus Vance's word processor could type 180 words per minute on the old word processors before computers, and she drank a lot of coffee, but just because one fills a library full of propaganda does not mean it is true, it is just somebody else's viewpoint and usually if they are spending so much money for propaganda, more than likely they are hoping to make more money off it by other methods.

My grandfather Scott always said, "Believe Nothing That You Hear, and Half of What You See."  Of course out in Illinois where a lot of them seem to end up in prison, there are a lot of people to sort it out, and there is a lot of time to figure it out.  From what I know, more than likely once the money runs out in Greenwich, Connecticut some of the more private simpler people will probably regain control of the town from the hoard of outside invaders from around the world whom seemed to have been misinformed about the wealth of the community.  About 10 years ago, there was a sign in the Greenwich, Connecticut train station that the whole town was only worth $5,000,000,000; and at that time nobody was interested in buying it.  Of course with so many expensive houses that can not be resold easily, we get a lot of renters paying high rents hoping to make quick profits off the community or their connections.  Alas, there are plenty of lawyers out here and in neighboring communities along with Manhattan, so if you see some of your former neighbors from Greenwich doing whatever they really do in Manhattan, do not be surprised.  Obviously a lot of the people I know in Manhattan walk a lot, so more than likely they might know more than a parked news truck.

I do know the area around Fred's http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm apartment at 420 East 49th street use to be like the scenes in the old American television program, "The Man From Uncle".  Alas after rush hour passes that neighborhood twice a day coming and going, there does not seem to be really anything going on there, since a lot of the residents travel frequently or are elderly and do not go out much.  It is just in the middle of the Hospital complexes that run up the East side of Manhattan for about 30 blocks in either direction, so maybe they are all Hospital Workers, and Fred was the character from the Rocky Horror Show.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/16/09 Thursday 3:25 A.M..  I was told today about this Winklevoss twins made $65 million on Facebook “copycat” settlement » VentureBeat .  Needless to say nobody has tried to sue me, since I was around this technology before most of them were alive, and a lot of the original patent holders might be pushing up tulips.  Speaking of tulips, there are only two tulips out at the veterans monument downtown, so it definitely was a colder winter.  With IBM and GE around here along with a few other companies, there has always been industrial espionage, and it is my viewpoint the local garbage men seem to make more money off high technology for their skills compared to some of the real inventors.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/16/09 Thursday 1:50 A.M..  The Que Windows Vista SP1 book came with a DVD that I should copy and look at.  I should also look at the book.  I am not getting much computer work done recently, but after the long cold winter inside, I am enjoying getting outside for a bit of exercise and sun.  When one gets more sun, it raises the dopamine level in the brain, and with a lack of dopamine, one gets Parkinson's like symptoms.  Also it is suppose to be good to reduce one cholesterol by exercise walking.  I can not afford an expensive low cholesterol diet, but I have always walked a lot.  We seemed to have a lot of the local citizens spending a little bit more time downtown in Greenwich instead of shopping and working in neighboring communities.  Many of them know a lot more than I do, but I am suppose to keep doing what I do, and I am not suppose to know what goes one, and I am suppose to get a hair cut when I can afford it, and I am suppose to stay focused. 

Note: <888> 04/16/09 Thursday 12:45 A.M..  SwissEduc: Stromboli Online - Volcanoes of Alaska

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Note: <888> 04/16/09 Thursday 12:15 A.M..  While I was on my walk today, I got two new Greenwich Metro North train schedules, and it is strange they are only good through April 5, 2009 to May 2, 2009.  I also chatted with a relative a little while ago.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/16/09 Thursday 11:35 P.M..  When I reheated the last of the sliced lamb, I was out of mushroom gravy, so I put a bit of Texas Best Bulls Eye Barbeque Sauce on it along with Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce and Kikkoman soy sauce, and then I reheated it on the vegetable cycle in the GE microwave oven.  I also put a few sliced mushrooms in my vegetable mixture.  I made up another batch of passion punch.  I chatted with a relative.  I chatted with a scuba diver today on the back side of the laundry at the Cos Cob laundry, and he told me he gets $400 to $500 per dive, so I guess scuba divers are doing pretty well these days, but it is a hazardous occupation with all of the big fish in the ocean.

If one is rich or on a government budget, one can get professional fire extinguishers or have your Kidde fire extinguisher recharged at nearby Welcome To Interstate Fire & Safety .  I also ate a 1/6th piece of pumpkin pie.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/16/09 Thursday 9:30 P.M..  I woke up at 10:30 A.M. this morning, when I had a telephone call from the American Indians trying to fund raise for poor Indians in Arizona.  I explained to them that on limited income, I can not afford to donate, but at least they own some property, so they are not that hard up.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.   I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.

I ordered Newegg.com - Isymphony NC2 Circumaural Noise Canceling Stereo Headphone for $8.99 with free shipping.  I will use it for my headset that plays my stereo system at the primary Vista computer replacing the older Realistic one.

I threw out the garbage.  I went to my usual 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went over to Radio Shack in Cos Cob, and I bought a Gold-Plated Stereo Adapter, 1/8" Jack to 1/4" Plug - RadioShack.com for $5.49 and .33 tax for $5.82 total.  I will use it with the new headphones to connect them to the Audio cable.  I tried to help out a local French citizen start his older American car with my little tiny jumper system that I had in the car, but it would not work.  He called a relative to jump start his car.  I am not suppose to jump start my Audi, because it has a computer ignition system that can be damaged by jump starting.  I toured the CVS in Cos Cob, and I used the bathroom there.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with some locals.  I browsed the front entrance of CVS.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.

I then drove over to www.homedepot.com in Port Chester, New York, and I toured their garden department.  I noticed their energy saving light bulbs in four packs are $1.50 to $2.00 each which is cheaper than $5 at CVS.  I noticed there is a new Walgreen's in downtown Port Chester on Main street across from Costco.

I then returned home, and I brought up my purchases and the mail.  I put the Radio Shack gold plug by the FIC server where the headphones will be.  I put the Kidde Fire Extinguisher along side the Chief Croker fire extinguisher.  It is  not as large as the Chief Croker, but it will be handy in an emergency.  I put the sign with the red "Fire Extinguisher" down arrow on the mirror above the fire extinguishers.  I labeled its date on the tag and the serial number.  I put the new white 25 foot GE handset line on the new AT&T wall phone in the kitchen, and it works just fine.  I will store the 3M Command strips on the right lower shelf of the cabinet on the sideboard in the bedroom.  I use to them to attach the hooks to my monitors that I hang headsets from.  I chatted with a relative.

I will now make and eat the same dinner as the last four nights without the stuffing.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/16/09 Thursday 2:15 A.M..  This is about the best deal I can find in a fire extinguisher search "Kidde Pro 340 Fire Extinguisher model 21005782" at www.homedepot.com .  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today, so I have to be up at noon.  Besides the two fire extinguishers in my apartment, I also have one in the car and one in the hallway outside of my apartment.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/16/09 Thursday 1:25 A.M..  Back around 1964, I drove down to Williamsburg, Virginia Colonial Virginia - Williamsburg Virginia Official Site - Guide for Colonial Williamsburg, VA with Jerry Harrison a neighbor from Round Hill Road and Mrs. Barclay who was Carlisle Humesline's secretary, and he was in charge of Colonial Williamsburg.  We hauled down some traditional white wrought iron furniture in a U-Haul trailer, and stayed with Mrs. Barclay who lived in the restored old jail in the historic district across from the state mental asylum which was yellow brick.  Since we lived in the historic district, we got to drink beer and eat ham sandwiches at the Sir Walter Raleigh tavern, and we got to see how they made salt pottery beer mugs.  We saw them firing the cannons every day, and we toured most of the old restored buildings.  We also saw Jamestown, Virginia which had a statue of Pocahontas.  We toured the colonial capital building and the governor's palace too.  During the trips we also visited some of their friends at a large brick house on the James River that from what I recall looks like Welcome to the Carter Hall Conference Center-Project Hope , but as I recall it was nearer Williamsburg and not west of Washington D.C., so possibly it was another similar looking house on the James River.  It was a private residence.  We also went to a wedding that had a reception at the The Country Club of Virginia , and as I recall the Boar's Head Country Club was across the road.  Since I had lived down south for a few years before, I knew something about southern manners and hospitality, which I seem to have forgotten a long time ago dealing with all of the Big City Folks in the New York City area.  http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm use to accompany Helen Kress Williams down to Williamsburg, when she lectured at the Colonial Williamsburg Society, so they must have known something about the history of the area. 

Note: <888> 04/16/09 Thursday 12:30 A.M..  White House taxes CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - White House releases Obama, Biden tax returns « - Blogs from CNN.com

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Note: <888> 04/15/09 Wednesday 11:45 P.M..  JPMorgan Set To Report - Forbes.com

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Note: <888> 04/15/09 Wednesday 11:00 P.M..  As a point of mute interest a Vice President of the United States does not get Secret Service protection after he is vice president, but a few people probably still keep and eye on him.  I ate the same lamb dinner as the last few nights.  I still have enough lamb left for another meal.  I did not have anymore stuffing.  I threw out lamb bone after I had cut off the remaining lamb.  It is a nice spring night.  

The government is talking about shovel ready projects.  I remember back in the mid 1970s, Nelson Rockefeller wanted to build a bridge across Long Island Sound from Sands Point, Long Island to New Rochelle, New York, but they later cancelled the project.  I once thought it might be a good idea to build a bridge from Oyster Bay, Long Island to Steamboat Road in Greenwich, but when I studied the maps, it looks like it would be a shorter distance from Lloyd's Neck, Long Island to South Norwalk, Connecticut.  However, one of the most frequent fishermen on Steamboat Road advised me there is a very deep canyon running along the bottom of Long Island Sound, so it would not be feasible to build a bridge with today's technology.  They could build some sort of floating bridge, but with the tides and the ocean currents, there probably would be major complications.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/15/09 Wednesday 9:20 P.M..  I woke up around noon today.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.   I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought a Fast 50's scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I toured the store.  They sell a Kidd fire extinguisher there for $42.99 that is a decent size in an emergency.  I have a larger Chief Croker one that was charged up in December 1999, but it says it is still fully charged, so I guess I do not need another one.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 9.75 ounce can of Planters whole cashew nuts for $3.50 or $2.99 off.  I ate some at the bench up towards the top of Greenwich Avenue.  I then finished my walk.  I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center, and I ate some more cashew nuts, and I fed some to the sparrows.  I then went by the Greenwich Tobacco shop, and I bought two ounces of Round Hill pipe tobacco for $8.80 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with the reference librarian.  There was a fellow there from India wearing a black turban.  It was about 9 years ago in the last week of May, I met Dr. Pelai from India, and he was wearing a black turban, and that same day somebody took high powered rifle shot at me at the southwestern picnic area at Tod's Point.  The two copies of P.C. Magazine have not been available at the Greenwich Library recently.  I then returned home.  I helped a neighbor find the key for his new car.  I picked up my mail.  I ate the rest of the cashew nuts.  I also ate a 1/6th piece of pumpkin pie.  I put the Round Hill pipe tobacco in its plastic bag in the ceramic Win Schulor mustard jar on my pipe stand that I keep in my bedroom window to have available to smoke my pipe in case I can not afford cigarettes.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO     

Note: <888> 04/15/09 Wednesday 12:55 A.M..  Well not much happening way out here in Southwestern Greenwich, Connecticut.  Well at least I know how to communicate instead of letting the minions of William Randolph Hearst III dictates all of the news in www.greenwichtime.com .  However, since my branch of the Scott family is suppose to be an original First Family of Virginia, more than likely we are already related to the Randolph family way back when.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  As a minor point of dispute, when I first got on the internet over 15 years ago, there was a Scott family member murdered Donald P. Scott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia by California Sheriffs in Malibu, California on his 200 acre ranch, when they accused him for planting illegal marijuana on his ranch at his elderly age in his mid 70s, when it was more than likely local hippies trespassing on his property.  Thus it would seem a lot of these so called liberal hippies have separate political agendas, so more than likely the Old Guard will have to keep a closer eye on them.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/15/09 Wednesday 12:10 A.M..  Since Fred was busy catering to a mostly Social Register clientele, there were other vendors in Manhattan trying to get some of this business and contacts.  I recall the people from Columbia, South America were particularly energetic in the Beekman Place neighborhood.  Possibly since Fred had lived with Richard Nixon's ambassador to Spain in Madrid, Spain, he knew other Spanish speaking people from elsewhere in the world.  I just opened another 36 ounce bag of Eight O'clock Columbian coffee.  In Fred's day, the A&P heir Huntington Hartford was a neighbor in the Beekman Place neighborhood, and the A&P company owned Eight O'Clock coffee before they sold it to www.coke.com .  Alas Fred only bought Viennese Blend coffee from Mr. McNulty down on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, and for breakfast he would only eat fresh croissants flow in from Paris, France on the Concorde and sold at the bakery on the southeast corner of 49th street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan.  The Kips Bay boys club was near Fred's apartment, so maybe he knew some younger people that finally grew up to be a bit older.  George Cary even visited us there, and he seemed to enjoy the Billy Baldwin decorating style that Fred tried to learn from Billy Baldwin, since Fred was suppose to be taking over his business.  Fred's business partner was Taylor Sterling that lived here in Greenwich, Connecticut and next to the Citicorp building in Manhattan.  Although I have a talent for design and decorating, I frequently find it tedious looking at scrap books of paint and wall paper and carpet and catalogs of various items, so on a limited budget, when I was in Nantucket, I found it necessary to eat, so I learned a bit about being kitchen help in the local Nantucket restaurants.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/14/09 Tuesday 11:35 P.M..  There might be some extra British Citizens here in Greenwich, Connecticut.  I saw one young fellow downtown today with a small British flag on his blue cardigan.  At the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, I saw the fellow from India with his wife for a change, and the first time I saw him, was on the Christmas Eve before the Tsunami in Indonesia, so I tend to think when I see him some global catastrophy is about to happen.   We did not speak.  I noticed a lot more of an international group of people using the Greenwich Library today, since I am only limited to American English, I do not try to network too much, since it confuses people in other languages, since I speak American English quite fast.  I was told by someone from India recently that there has not been an emperor or empress in India for over 400 years, so it has me confused that Queen Victoria was the last Empress of India, unless she was a lot older than she appeared.  I once read that the Battenberg family from Germany were actually from India, which might explain the British connection.  I never studied European History very much in my education, but I know there are other European and worldwide royal families that seem to come and go in this area with the www.un.org being nearby in Manhattan.  Since the news media does not cover the U.N. locally, one never knows what they are doing.  When I helped Fred Von Mierers http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm  around the apartment at 420 East 49th street in Manhattan when I was a guest there, we never paid any attention to the U.N., and we did mostly house keeping errands.  There were a lot of international visitors that frequented his apartment and a few Americans, and one of the first Americans, I remember was someone that looked like Wilbur Banks from Greenwich, Connecticut who was the Electrolux vacuum cleaner salesman, and Fred bought a new unit from him.  We still have the Electrolux salesroom off Armagone Causeway to the east of Greenwich Avenue, but they now have some sort of new name.  I think their units run close to a $1,000 now, so I bought two years ago a complicated Hoover from www.lnt.com as a clearance item for $80 down from $450, but it works quite well.  I donated my two old vintage Electrolux vacuum cleaners to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I still have a fairly new Sears Upright with attachments and extra bags that I repaired, when a neighbor threw it out.  Although I do not have much floor space in my apartment with all of the various items, the new Hoover is also very good at picking up dust, and since it does not use bags, one can save money on dollar bags from Electrolux.  The Hoover looks like it was designed by a folding bicycle mechanic, so it is somewhat complicated to figure out how to use, but it works quite well.  It is also a bit heavy.  As I recall from the www.greenwichtime.com , the Duke of Windsor dedicated a statue at the Electrolux factory in Old Greenwich, Connecticut around 1926 on a state visit, so the Anglophile community have been keeping busy vacuuming ever since.  I think there was a Swedish fellow that knew the Duke of Windsor when he was Governor of the Bahamas, and the Swedish fellow use to lend his yacht the Southern Cross for the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor to go back and forth to Europe and travel to the United States on.  The Duke of Windsor also knew somebody in the Bahamas that was murdered, and the individual owned a very prosperous gold mind somewhere up in Canada. Wilbur Banks was in the Duke of Windsor's Honor Guard in Newport, Rhode Island, so he must have visited Newport too.  CIO

I have been advised that I can not have too many guests here, since it creates security problems for my neighbors.  However, since I am mostly on the internet and computers all of the time, I have global communications, but people seem unwilling or unable to communicate, so therefore they probably are more interested in more expensive activities in this area.  Basically from what I know which is not much, I am mostly reading through the tea leaves here all of the time.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/14/09 Tuesday 9:15 P.M..    I also ate a 1/6th piece of pumpkin pie.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/14/09 Tuesday 7:55 P.M..  I woke up at 8 A.M. this morning.  The Queen Mary II was back in Manhattan from its around the World Tour QM2 - Itinerary - 2009 .  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I went back to bed until noon.  I washed the breakfast dishes.   I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative. 

I ordered for a relative to be delivered to another relative to be used in Maine a Uniden TRU9485-4W-R 5.8 GHz Cordless Phone w/3 Extra Handsets, Recertified - TRU9485-4W - Buy.com for $39.99 with free shipping.  The relative paid for it.  I chatted with the relative twice more.

I ate two hot dogs with buns and mustard and ketchup and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream onion and potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.

I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I went downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 12 roll bundle of Scott toilet paper for $6.99 and .42 tax for $7.41 total.  I finished my walk.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I bought a like new AT&T model 210 white Princess Wall phone for $3 and it came with a telephone cable.  I also bought a 12 foot coaxial cable for $1 for $4 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I read P.C. World Magazine.  I used the bathroom.  I chatted with someone from the Greenwich Land Trust about http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm .  I checked out a large book by Que on Microsoft Vista SP1.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and they said I had no proof that the Hillshire sliced turkey meat was 3 packages for $10 last Friday, so they would not refund my money.

I bought a yesterday's pumpkin pie for $2.50, three eight packs of Stop and Shop hot dog buns for $5 all, two Ball Park bun size mixed meat franks for $2.50 each package, fresh Chiquita bananas for .68 a pound for .99, and a liter bottle of Perrier for $1.49 and .05 bottle deposit less a $1.49 off from the free Perrier Jimmy fund coupon for $13.58 total.  I then returned home, and I brought up my purchases.

I took the Radio Shack wall phone off the kitchen wall, and I installed the AT&T white princess style model 210 wall phone on the wall using a one foot telephone cable, and I also put an older 25 foot slightly soiled white handset cable on it, so it can be used at a distance.  Of course I have the two line Panasonic cordless telephone in the kitchen and the Uniden single line cordless at the kitchen entrance, but the AT&T telephone like the Radio Shack phone has a volume switch to increase its audio for people hard of hearing.  It works just fine.  I put the spare telephone cable in the top left FIC server desk in the living room.  I put the 12 foot Coaxial cable on the lower level of the sweater closet in the hallway.

I will now make and reheat the same lamb dinner as the last two days.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/13/09 Monday 11:15 P.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good evening.  High tomorrow of 50 degrees Fahrenheit and mostly cloudy.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/13/09 Monday 10:50 P.M..  In the last recession back in the fall of 1976, www.mcdonalds.com would not even hire me in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  The following winter after working in restaurants in Nantucket, I found work at the THIS ESTABLISHMENT IS CLOSED La Vieille Maison Restaurant Boca Raton Miami/South Florida FL Reviews Gayot where I earned $2.15 an hour as a dish washer for a few months.  I took home about $85 a week which was not enough to rent a small apartment, so the chef leant me a tent to camp out in the small patch of jungle on the north side of the Boca Inlet.  I had to quit the job around the middle of January 1977, when a bull dozer showed up to build the new Excelsior Hotel in Boca Raton, Florida.  I took my last pay check, and I bought a round trip ticket to Nassau from the Fort Lauderdale airport, and I arrived in Nassau.  I checked my back pack at the airport, and I started to walk into town with a small ditty bag.  I was given a ride by a local taxi cab driver that showed me his house over looking Paradise island and offer me a smoke, since I had quit smoking cigarettes at that time.  He then showed me the Cloister on Paradise Island, and he told me I could camp out there.  I went for a walk around the grounds after resting for a while, and I met Richard Mercy who was from London, England.  The next evening, he showed up, and we walked the beach, and he showed me a solar powered generator.  I leant him my Addidas sneakers, since the little pine cones on the beach hurt his feet.  He suggested that I stay in a cottage at the Paradise Island resort with his roommate Romsey from London, so I stayed there.  It was quite humid inside, since the British tend not to use air conditioning.  The following evening, we went to the Casino in a white Cadillac limousine, and we picked up a lady with a body guard that looked like the Shah of Iran's wife.  There were about 5,000 young blond haired people in the Casino in formal ware, and I was only wearing khakis and a red flannel shirt.  We had a vegetarian dinner, and we did not gamble.  Richard Mercy told me he was a banker in London, England, and he lived at Eaton Square.  I ate a McDonalds in downtown Nassau with my last money, and I walked out to the airport.  There were a half dozen B.O.A.C. 747s at the Nassau airport.  I picked up my back pack, and I had to pay a $3 exit tax, and I returned back to Fort Lauderdale, Florida where I knew how to camp out.  I think a few days later, I hitchhiked down to Key West, Florida, where I camped out, until I met John Bolton who had the key to the Casa Marina Hotel which was just beginning to under go renovation.  While in Key West, Florida that winter Jimmy Eldert showed up again, and we had dinner with a friend of his at his friend's Japanese house near the Casa Marina, and I once cooked a red snapper that I bought off the pier at Jimmy's apartment across the street from the Catholic Church.  Later on that season Jimmy said good bye, and he left Key West, Florida with blue duffle bag, and he hitch hiked out to California.  The next fall, John and I drove through Santa Cruz, California, but we did not know Jimmy was there.  The following fall, I looked him up in Santa Cruz, California, where he was attending the University there, and he lived nearby O'Neal's surf shop, and he had a part time job as a disk jockey at the Catholic Church radio station in Santa Cruz, California.  By the mid 1980s, Jimmy had moved to the Malibu Colony, and I lost track of him, once I got on the internet.  Helen Kress Williams of Oyster Bay, Long Island said we were suppose to keep an eye on him, but she never explained why, but she had a large network of Old Guard friends.  More than likely he is still living in warmer climates, since they have too much snow in Syracuse, New York where he was raised.  From what I know, he might be living around some of Richard Nixon's old friends in California, whom seemed to have survived unlike the East Coast republicans whom are pretty much down the tubes.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/13/09 Monday 10:00 P.M..  When I was outside this evening at dusk, I heard an owl out in the woods.

During the last recession during from the third week of September 1976 until about May 1, 1977 and from October 1977 to about May 1, 1978, I was outside a lot in south Florida, since I did not have a place to stay.  I saw a lot of nature in that period, and I got use to observing nature.  Around February 1978, when I was staying with a friend and his sister in Daytona Beach, Florida, we took off on a short trip down to the Florida Keys and on the return, we were sleeping in the in the 1971 yellow Subaru station wagon from Nantucket, and at sun rise out on the west side of Boca Raton, Florida by the polo fields we saw a very large Grey Panther watching us, like we might be breakfast.

Of course I lived down south in Martinsville, Virginia from 1953 to 1954, and I recall killing a Copperhead snake with a shovel that was in our yard.  In Pensacola, Florida where we lived from 1954 to 1956, I would see lots of buzzards in the sky, and I was once out in the bayou across the street behind the neighbor's house in about a 8 foot long row boat, and I recall being kept from coming back to shore by about an eight food long alligator that eventually let me get back to shore.  I was only about five years old then.  In Decatur, Alabama from 1956 to 1961, we were living along the Tennessee Fly Way, so we would see millions of birds all of the time depending on the season.  Up north, it is colder in the winter, so one does not get outside as much in colder weather, but from what I know there is still northern wildlife around these parts, and it is my viewpoint the wildlife migrates from north to south with the seasons, so now that it is getting warmer, the wildlife is coming back north.  A Florida panther might be pretty much the same thing as a Mountain Lion or a Cougar.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/13/09 Monday 8:40 P.M..  I woke up at 6 P.M..  I went outside, and I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I picked up the mail.

The SONY CD PLAYER Remote Control RM-DX300 CDP-CX300 - eBay (item 110371127225 end time Apr-29-09 18:08:53 PDT) for $14.99 and $3.99 shipping for $18.98 total arrived.  I put in two AA alkaline batteries.  It works just fine on the Sony juke box.  To select a Disk number from my list of CD disks, one presses Disc and enters the number and then press Enter.  I left it on the CD list on the stack of magazines beneath the Northgate Syntax computer monitor.

I ate two hot dogs with buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/13/09 Monday 2:10 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I was told by my relative, they saw somebody steal a beef brisket at the local grocery store in Texas.  I made and reheated the same dinner as yesterday.  According to www.cl-p.com , my next electricity bill will not be posted until May 4, 2009.  I guess since I am on rate 7 Night Time rate, where the rate is 1/3rd lower from 8 P.M. to noon, but slightly higher from noon to 8 P.M., they do not bill every month.  I have already paid my monthly average.  I will now save some electricity and turn off the living room lights and the primary Vista computer, and I will take a nap for a while.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/13/09 Monday 12:55 P.M..  Here is a copy of my Microsoft Money Million Dollar Index Portfolio from August 31, 1997 to Date http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-stocks.pdf .  I do not actually own it.  It is just what I tracked in the stock market for a long time.  It is now worth about $1,245,000.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/13/09 Monday 10:45 A.M..  I called to wish my relative Happy Birthday.  My relative's built in GE Microwave oven broke yesterday, so my relative is getting a new GE microwave oven for her birthday.

I posted this link to the pictures that were taken yesterday http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-041209/ .

These are the pictures on the Great White Egret Nest on top of the Eagle Statue at the Tidal Pond at Tod's Point.

http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-041209/DSCN1643.JPG

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We're have to keep an eye out for any little baby great white egrets.

great white egret photos - Google Image Search

The Great White Egret is the symbol of the National Audubon Society . CIO

Note: <888> 04/13/09 Monday 9:25 A.M..  On the Technics amplifier, I have a quarter inch headphone jack in the front of it.  I have to a two splitter available to plug into that jack, which I am not currently using.  The two splitter splits the left and right channels.  I have a cable running from the Technics amplifier to the headphones that hang off the server computer desk, so I am now listening to CD music with the Realistic head phones.  I have Emerson wireless headphones that use two AA batteries that are hard to replace.  Their cable is buy the Technics amplifier to plug into the amplifier.  I am charging up two pairs of AA Nickel Cadmium Batteries, and they should be charged in nine hours around 6 P.M..  The Emerson wireless headset has a 1/4 inch to small plug adapter like the one that I was looking for.  I am now listening to my Beatles music off the Sony CD juke box.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/13/09 Monday 8:00 A.M..  Happy Birthday to a relative.  I woke up at 5 A.M..  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.   I made my bed.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 10:25 P.M..  I ate a sliced ham, turkey, and cheese sandwich on a bulkie roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch which was watered down with the remaining bottle of Perrier.  I am a bit tired after a long day, so I will shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 8:55 P.M..  Best site I know for water kettles http://fantes.com/kettles.html at Fante's Kitchen Wares Shop - fantes.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 8:10 P.M..  Pictures from today http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-041209/ .  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 8:00 P.M..  I went out after the last note, and I picked up my guests.  we went by the A&P Fresh at the Riverside Shopping Center, and my guests got some groceries.  They were looking for a tea kettle there.  They had two metal ones and one Earthstone one for $20 each, but my guest was looking for one that would not leave a metal taste.  While they were shopping, I went by RadioShack next door.  I bought a 1/8" Stereo Jack to 1/4" Stereo Plug Headphone Adapter - RadioShack.com for $4.99 and .30 tax for $5.29 total.  However, I needed one with a smaller hole, so I returned it.  I then went with my guests to Walgreen's, but they did not have tea kettles there.  We then drove out to the southwest picnic area at Tod's Point, and we took a few pictures.  I then took a few pictures of the Great White Egret nest on top of the Eagle statue.  We then went to the southeast concession area, and we took a few pictures there.  We then drove over to the Super Stop and Shop on the Old Greenwich Stamford border, but they were closed at 3 P.M..   We then drove east on U.S.1 around the Stamford Mall, but there is still a big hole on the east of the Stamford Mall, so Target department store is not there.  We drove back west, and Target department store is across from where Caldor's used to be, but they were closed.  There is a Burlington Coat Factory where Caldor's used to be.  There is a Trump tower going up across the street from where Bloomingdales use to be.  We then drove back west on U.S. 1 to my apartment.  I showed my guests my apartment.  They liked the tulips.  They drank some year 2000 Perrier, and it still sparkles.  We all used the bathroom.  I then drove them over to the Greenwich Train station, but the main train station lobby was closed, so we waited on the platform for them to catch the 6:12 P.M. back into Manhattan.  I then sat out briefly downtown.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a relative.  I will post the pictures shortly.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 2:55 P.M..  I'm off to pick up my guests.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 2:40 P.M..  I might have my guests come over and inspect my apartment, if they are willing.  They have not seen it in a couple of years.  I have three tulip glasses out in case they want a Perrier or passion punch.  They Perrier is Year 2000 Perrier, so I am not sure if it is still bubbly or not.  I have both air purifiers going to take the cooking smells out of the apartment.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 2:35 P.M..  BBC NEWS | Africa | US captain released from pirates

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 2:25 P.M..  I am dressed to go out for my two guests, and I am waiting for them to call around 3:30 P.M., but they sometimes call earlier.  We probably will drive out to Tod's Point or possibly tour back country or maybe even Greenwich Avenue.  One of my guests usually wants ice cream, but I am not sure if Hagen Daz is opened on Greenwich Avenue on Easter Sunday or not.  CIO   

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 1:30 P.M..  It is 43 degree Fahrenheit outside right now in Greenwich, Connecticut.  The good news is that it is suppose to be sunny and clear all week with a high of 67 degrees Fahrenheit next Saturday, so the tulips will probably be out by then.  Some of the daffodils are out already though.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 1:10 P.M..  Dinner was delicious.  I cleaned up the kitchen.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 11:55 A.M..  Easter dinner will be ready in 5 to 10 minutes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 11:35 A.M..  I chatted with a relative.  The lamb will be ready in 25 minutes.  I will let it sit 5 minutes before I carve a couple of half inch slices off of it, and I will put some of the Heinz mushroom au jus gravy on it.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 10:40 A.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I have the dinner already to start cooking.  I also will cook a 6 ounce box of Kraft turkey stove top stuffing.  I will start cooking the lamb at 10:45 A.M., and when it is done at noon, I should probably let it sit for 15 minutes before carving.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 9:40 A.M..  From what I can figure out the 3.75 pound half of a leg of Australian lamb is too heavy to cook in the Sharp convection oven.  I plan to put it on a roasting rack in a roasting pan.  I will season it on all sides with garlic powder, ground black pepper, dried rosemary and Italian seasoning, and then I will coat it with Texas Best barbeque sauce.  I will cook it in the Farberware convection oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for a half hour and then 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 minutes.  From what I can tell that should come out medium rare.  I will put a 12 ounce jar of the Heinz Home-style Au Jus gravy in a pot with half of a 8 ounce box of sliced mushrooms and heat it on the burner.  I will steam in a Revere pot with an inch of water and steamer stray, a vegetable mixture of half inch potato cubes, baby carrots, sliced asparagus, and broccoli crowns for 15 minutes on medium high electric burner heat, and I will drain off the water and eat the steamed vegetables with a bit of olive oil.  I can not use the Farberware convection oven and GE microwave at the same time, because of circuit overload.  I will eat it all with a glass of watered down passion punch.  I will have the Easter dinner around 12:15 P.M..  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 8:50 A.M..  After I cleaned up, I threw out the garbage.  I walked around the building.  I said "Good Morning" to a few neighbors.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 8:05 A.M..  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I put away the laundry, and I threw out the garbage.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/12/09 Sunday 6:50 A.M..  Happy Easter.  I woke up at 5:30 A.M..  I put clean linens on the bed.  I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/11/09 Saturday 8:35 P.M..  I chatted with a relative. 

Hard times for horses The Associated Press: NY horse breeder charged with cruelty to animals .  A colder winter might have something to do with their condition.

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

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/11/09:

Note: <888> 04/11/09 Saturday 4:35 P.M..  I woke up at 7:30 A.M. this morning.  I chatted with a friend.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I did some http://mikelouisscott.com/bf.htm on the internet.  I watched some television about people being swindled in England.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate two hot dogs on buns with ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  

About 1 P.M., the SONY CDP-CX355 300-DISC CHANGER JUKEBOX - eBay (item 170317034846 end time Apr-07-09 20:20:09 PDT) for $50 and $18.75 shipping for $68.75 total arrived and CDP-CX355 | CD MegaStorage® 300 Disc Changer | Sony | SonyStyle USA.  I hooked it up in the Sony CD cabinet.  It is a large unit, so the Sony TV cabinet glass doors have to stay open.  I threw out the shipping box and the garbage.  I picked up the mail.  I sorted out my CDs.  I broke them down into three groups Contemporary, Classical, and Broadway.  I put them in three sections of the Sony Juke Box starting a 1 to 99, 100 to 199, and 200 to 300.

I made up a list of their locations and I printed out four copies.

http://mikelouisscott.com/scottcd.htm

http://mikelouisscott.com/scottcd.doc . 

I programmed the Philips Universal Remote control to work with it under the top right SAT button.  You can skip tracks and CDs with it, but you can not enter the number of a CD.  I will be able to do that once I get the Sony Juke Box remote control.  It works just fine, and right now I am listening to some vintage Elvis.  CIO    

Note: <888> 04/11/09 Saturday 12:40 A.M..  On the Jimmy Fund scratch card, I won a free one liter bottle of www.perrier.com .  I am not sure how I cash it in.  I guess you redeem it at the Stop and Shop.  I did not have tea after dinner.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  It is suppose to rain all day tomorrow, so I probably will not be going out.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/10/09 Friday 11:25 P.M..  I woke up at 6 A.M. this morning.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.   I went back to bed until 9 A.M..  I chatted with relatives.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I also cleaned the Ionic Pro air purifier.  I also put away the two www.army.mil extreme cold weather good to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit sleeping bags.  I also put the two DeLonghi oil filled radiators in the bedroom, so they are put away for the season.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up the mail.  I ate two hot dogs on buns with mustard and ketchup and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I chatted with a relative.  The good new is that the six tulips in my apartment bloomed today on Good Friday, and they are a combination of rose and yellow.  When I watered the plants, I also used 10 drops of Schultz plant food per quart of water.    I slept from 3 P.M. to 6 P.M.. 

Tracking is FedEx Tracking on the order for 12-Ft. AXIS Gold Audio Cable w/Dual RCA - RadioShack.com  for $4.99 arrived.  The FedEx delivery person looked like Obama, so maybe he is a relative.  I put the cable on the lower Sony cabinet shelf.

I chatted with a friend visiting Bethany Beach, Delaware.

I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area including the far side of the station.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I played a Beginners Luck scratch card for $1, and I won $2.  I chatted with another regular walker downtown.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I chatted with a relative on the AT&T wireless go phone that I carry.  While I was sitting at the bench at the veterans monument downtown three brown and tan bunny rabbits appeared.  The tulips do not look like they will be out for Easter downtown.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 10 pack of Merrick tubular hangers for $3.49 and .21 tax for $3.70 total.  I finished my walk.  I sat out for while.  I carried my umbrella in the rain.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Service Gulf station, and I bought $6.01 of self service premium gasoline at $2.559 a gallon for 2.348 gallons for 29 miles driving this week for 12.35 miles per gallon at odometer reading of 62,397 miles.

I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a half gallon of minute maid orange juice with calcium for $2.50, sliced deli Virginia ham for $4.99 a pound for $7.71, two 12 ounce jars of Heinz Au Jus gravy for $1.50, a 64 ounce bottle of Heinz ketchup for $4.49, two quart jars of Vlassic kosher dill pickle slices for $2.50 each, two Hormel 9 ounce packages of sliced turkey for $4.49 each, but the sign said they were suppose to be three for $10, so I should have bought three, fresh asparagus for $1.69 a pound for $1.69, fresh Chiquita bananas for .68 a pound for $2.38, a bulb of garlic for $2.99 a pound for .33, a 8 ounce package of fresh mushrooms for $1.99, and a reduced produce package of baby carrots for .63 for $38.70 total.  I also bought a Jimmy Fund scratch card for a dollar.  I then returned home.  I put away my groceries.  I put the new plastic hangers on the bedroom closet shelf.

I will now eat a sliced ham, turkey, and cheese sandwich on a bulkie roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I will then drink a cup of salada green tea with a package of splenda and two teaspoons of Borden lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/09 Thursday 9:20 P.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good night.  High tomorrow of 54 degrees Fahrenheit.  Showers at 1 P.M..  CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/09 Thursday 8:50 P.M..  Unclaimed Baggage Center

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Note: <888> 04/09/09 Thursday 8:00 P.M..  I made and ate http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/pbf.htm which I ate with a glass of watered down passion punch.

The order for Craftsman 54 pc. Driving Set - 26393` at Sears.com for $12.49 and $6.25 shipping and $1.13 tax for $19.87 total arrived.

I threw out the shipping box.  I put the driver set on the lower level of the sweater closet in the hallway.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/09 Thursday 6:30 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  I went to my regular 3 P.M. appointment.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I noticed somebody probably from California smoking a clove cigarette in front of the Greenwich Train station.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center after my walk.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with Greenwich Gossip about the price of tea in China.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor, and I picked up my mail.  It seems rather busy downtown for a change with the weekly rush out of Manhattan on Thursday afternoons, since nobody seems to work in Manhattan on Fridays anymore.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/09 Thursday 1:45 P.M..  I ate two hotdogs with buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  The mail arrived.

The order for $20 and $6 postage a backup used Motorola Surfboard SBV5120 Cable Modem like I already have from Cablevision MOTOROLA SURFboard SBV5120 CABLE MODEM - eBay (item 320355206980 end time Apr-06-09 08:38:42 PDT) arrived.  I tested it, and it works just fine.  However to use it, one has to register it with www.cablevision.com , which is not necessary at the moment.  I stored it underneath the sideboard in the bedroom next to the Slaymaker jump start system.  The tulips in my apartment look like they might be either orange or yellow or a combination of both. 

I will now go out.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/09 Thursday 12:15 P.M..  This is a dog like the one I use to walk in Manhattan that came from the North Shore Animal League Adopt a Dog - North Shore Animal League America White German Shepherd Mix .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/09/09 Thursday 12:10 P.M..  The only thing www.forbes.com is selling is Labrador puppies for $12,000.

However, there are plenty of dogs that one can adopt for free.

Note: <888> 04/09/09 Thursday 11:50 A.M..  Seagate: FreeAgent™ Outlet Center

Note: <888> 04/09/09 Thursday 11:25 A.M..  I woke up last night, and I ate an English muffin.  I finally woke up this morning at 8 A.M..  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I read the recent computer periodical and other magazines.  Not much seems to be happening in recession torn America.  I threw out the garbage and the recent magazines.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/09 Wednesday 10:55 P.M..  Dino machine CompUSA.com

Beatles Fans Await Upgraded Re-Releases - NYTimes.com

Note: <888> 04/08/09 Wednesday 10:00 P.M..  I also drank a cup of salada green tea the way that I prepare it.  I chatted with two friends and a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/08/09 Wednesday 7:50 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  I went by the Chase Bank just west of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue.  I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Havemeyer Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various places.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center before and after my walk.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I played a "Lucky 7's" scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought buy one six pack get one free of Thomas' English muffins for $3.39 both, and a 96 count bottle of Tum's berry flavored tablets for $5.79 less a $2 off CVS Tums coupon for $7.18 total.  I finished my walk, and I sat out for a while.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  I chatted with an employee of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club from the Philippines.  I examined the barricade on the pier on Steamboat Road.  The orange plastic fencing is pulled away.  However, there is only about a 12 inch space between the pier iron railing and the cement barricade to pass onto the pier.  For older people they should have made a larger space.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with one of the staff about the price of tea in China.  I also chatted with somebody from Peking, China downtown about a friend of mine that works for China airlines.  I went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a 36 ounce bag of Eight O'clock hazelnut coffee beans for $14.39, two 24 ounce boxes of America's Choice frozen fish sticks for $2.99 each box, a 3.75 pound Australian half of leg of lamb for $2.99 a pound for $11.18, and five inch pot container of unopened tulips for $4 and .24 tax for $35.79 total. I then returned home, and I picked up my mail.  I chatted with a relative.  I watered the tulips, and I put them in a bowl on top of the HP PhotoSmart printer at the apartment entrance.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/09 Wednesday 2:05 P.M..  I read the Sony Juke Box manual.  One can hook a keyboard up to it, to input information on the CDs.  I went back outside briefly.  The mail truck just arrived at the family units.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer and get ready to go out.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/08/09 Wednesday 1:10 P.M..  I cleaned the GE microwave oven.  I ate two hotdogs on buns with ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of pringle sour cream and onion potato chips with watered down passion punch.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.  I am just waiting for the mail to arrived, and if it arrives before 2:15 P.M., I will try to pay my rent, if the rent statement arrives from the Greenwich Housing Authority.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/08/09 Wednesday 11:40 A.M..  I woke up at 6:30 A.M. this morning.   For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I went back to bed until 9 A.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.

The order for two NXG® Basix Series Y-Cable with RCA Connectors - RadioShack.com for $3.99 each arrived FedEx tracking, but they sent me six by mistake, since one package contained five.  Thus I have four spare ones.  I moved the Sony five disk CD player back into the stereo rack system in the bookcase to the right of the Sony television.  I connected it up with the RCA Y splitters and a 3 foot audio cable that I had.  I thus have the longer audio cable still going into the Sony cabinet beneath the Sony television, so I can connect up the Sony juke box, when it arrives.  It was sent parcel post from Jacksonville, Alabama on this past Monday, so it will take a while.  Both Sony units will play off the CD button of the Technics amplifier.

All current installed components seems to work just fine.  I put ther spare RCA Y adapters on the lower shelf of the Sony cabinet.

When I tried removing the number labels off three of the CDs yesterday, it removed the magnetic material, so the first three CDs did not work.  I had copies of the songs on my computer, so I reburned the first three CDs, and I made a second copy.  They are old Beatles music for any old timers around the area.   They are some of the first MP3s I found on the internet many moons ago.

My father Louis Dale Scott when he worked for Chemstrand frequently made trips to England, and he met General Norman Ireland Smith around 1962, and General Smith gave my father two Beatles albums, which my father gave to my older sister.  They were never distributed in the United States, but they were popular, so all of the teenagers would listen to them at various parties in Greenwich, and since my sister knew Patty Landware from Holland, Michigan whose family owned the Greenwich Radio station, they use to also play those two Beatles albums on the Greenwich radio station at the time.  A couple of years later, the Beatles showed up on the Ed Sullivan show, and thus began our long affiliation with CBS, but I only received about two to three months of pay checks from them back in the spring and summer of 1973, when I worked at their broadcast center on West 57th street during the Watergate Hearings when nothing was happening at the Broadcast Center because of the continuous live feed from the Senate Hearings.  Even Walter Cronkite was up sailing in Nantucket all summer that year, before he moved to Martha's Vineyard.  CIO    

Note: <888> 04/07/09 Tuesday 9:15 P.M..  Orthodox Easter is a week later this year on April 19, 2009 that Christian Easter The Date of Easter 2009.  I was in Crete for Easter 1972.  In Greece the week before Easter, they do not eat anything, and they fast, and all of the shops and restaurants are closed.  Right at midnight on Easter, they start to party and feast like it is New Years Eve, so they have different traditions, and they tend to get a bit hungry the week before Easter in Greece.

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I might watch a bit of television first.

High tomorrow of 47 degrees Fahrenheit and cloudy.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/09 Tuesday 8:45 P.M..  This is how a lot of the democrats spend Holy Week.  Live Duval Street Web Cam in Key West, Florida :: Sloppy Joe's Bar ::

Note: <888> 04/07/09 Tuesday 7:55 P.M.. BBC NEWS | UK | The castaway dog returns home .  Well I guess not much to report from England.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/09 Tuesday 7:40 P.M..  When I tried my hand at blue fishing on Nantucket out by Lyon Farm road by the old Navy Quonset hut used for nuclear preparedness, I used a new surf casting rod with Penn reel and 50 pound test line and 100 pound test leader with weights with two Hopkins lures from St. Louis, Missouri.  The fiberglass surf rod split into halves for storage, and although I had secured the farrells to it by wrapping them one with nylon thread, I had not yet wrapped the whole road and polyurethaned it yet, which I did in California later that year.  It was around the first week of October 1978.  I caught 78 blue fish and 2 stripped bass around the last two hours of daylight at high tide.  As I caught the fish twice two at a time, I filleted them on the beach and rinsed them off in the ocean, and I threw the fish heads and guts back in the ocean which probably attracted more fish.  I sold the blue fish filets to the Languedoc restaurant where I worked for 29 cents a pound and the stripped bass for filets for 59 cents a pound.  At lunch time that time of year, they had a blue fish special for $4 which Flossie liked.  I never caught anything again with that rod and reel, although it did see quite a bit of Florida and California, so I guess I had beginners luck my first time.

Steve the Italian one of the most frequently fishermen on Steamboat Road here in Greenwich is suppose to be down in Key West, Florida fishing for the last two winters.  I had recommended to him two summers ago, that he should try Costa Rica where they have 800 pound tuna fish.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/07/09 Tuesday 7:30 P.M..  I baked and ate a 12 ounce box of America's Choice frozen fish sticks which I ate with a 1/3rd cup horseradish and ketchup mixture, and I also ate my vegetable mixture with olive oil and watered down passion punch.  I also drank a glass of salada green tea with the hot vegetable water with a package of splenda and two teaspoons of lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/09 Tuesday 5:55 P.M..  I have 91 music CDs in my music collection.  About half of them are contemporary and half are classical.  I did not need to remove the number labels on the ones that I had burned myself, since the sticker are on firmly enough.  As I put them in the CD juke box, I will have to make up a list, so I know which numbers to search for.  I have not read the manual yet, so I do not know what sort of bells and whistles it has.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/07/09 Tuesday 4:45 P.M..  I went out after my last note.  I went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue.  I bought a four color black, green, blue, and red Expo dry erase marker set for $5.49 less the $2 bonus bucks coupon that I got in the mail plus .21 tax for $3.70 total.  I will use them to mark my CDs and I will remove the labels I stuck on them, so the labels can not fall off in the CD juke box and jam it.  I sat out briefly in the cold dark weather downtown.  It does not seem like we have much of a problem with global warming in this neck of the woods.  I went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I was told that the people on Social Security SSI income will receive a $250 economic stimulus this May 2009.  I then returned home.  I used a dollar in parking, since the first meter at CVS took two quarters and did not work, so I had to move to an adjacent spot.  I will leave the magic marker set to the left of the Samsung color laser printer.  I will mark the CDs that I have when I have time before I put them in the CD juke box.  I was told by a regular walker at Tod's Point, it is a great white egret next on top of the Eagle statue at Tod's Point in the tidal pool.  I guess I would have seen a lot of their nests in the Florida keys in the 1970s, so that is perhaps why I recognized it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/07/09 Tuesday 1:35 P.M..  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail.  I got a new CVS card and $2 bonus bucks.  The rent statement from the Greenwich Housing Authority still has not arrived.  I guess a lot of people are observing the Holy Week.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for my 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/09 Tuesday 12:10 P.M.. Free Auto Check Purchase a Vehicle History Report .

My Audi information is at http://mikelouisscott.com/audireport.htm and

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I will now make up another batch of passion punch.  I will then eat two hotdogs with buns and mustard and ketchup with 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of watered down passion punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/07/09 Tuesday 11:35 A.M..  The Technics amplifier and the Sony 5 disk CD player are three digit code remote controls, so they will now work off the Philips 4 digit universal remote control.

Note: <888> 04/07/09 Tuesday 10:15 A.M..  I woke up at 6 A.M..  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.

I pulled out the Sony 5 disk CD player from the bottom of the stereo system component stack.  I took the CD and DVD disks out of the Sony Cabinet, and I stacked the CDs to the right of the stereo component stack.  I put the Sony 5 disk CD player on the lower shelf of the Sony TV cabinet.  It is hooked up to play off the CD button on the Technics amplifier. 

The Phillips DVD player plays off VCR1.

I stacked up the DVD disks on the lower shelf beneath the stereo component stack.  I moved the two spare high definition converters and their two antennas to the window shelf in the bedroom.

To hook up the new Sony Jukebox 300 CD system on the upper shelf of the Sony TV cabinet, I ordered 12-Ft. AXIS Gold Audio Cable w/Dual RCA - RadioShack.com  for $4.99 and two NXG® Basix Series Y-Cable with RCA Connectors - RadioShack.com for $3.99 each and .78 tax and free shipping on over a $10 order for $13.75 total.  I will use them to hook up both Sony CD players from the RCA Y splitter female jack on the back of the Technics amplifier, so they both play off the Technics CD button.

People are beginning to come north for the summer Turner discusses saving the planet at library - Greenwich Time .

Note: <888> 04/06/09 Monday 11:15 P.M..  I watches a informercial about Honda motorcycles www.honda.com .  Aparently, they are made in Marysville, Ohio where Scott fertilizer is made Gardening & Lawn Care Advice - Scotts Miracle-Gro.

Note: <888> 04/06/09 Monday 9:55 P.M..  USA.gov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal.  This is what I am already getting DSS: Energy Assistance - Winter Heating Assistance Benefits

Note: <888> 04/06/09 Monday 9:35 P.M..  I woke up at 6 P.M..  I ate a sautéed hamburger with onions and cheese on a bulkie roll with ketchup and my usual vegetable mixture and watered down passion punch.  I also drank a cup of Salada green tea with the vegetable hot water and a packet of splenda and a couple of teaspoons of lemon juice.  I chatted with a relative and a friend. 

One of my relatives told me the Great White Egret is the symbol of the Audubon Society, and since I saw one out at Tod's Point on Saturday afternoon, possibly it is what built the nest on top of the Eagle statue in the tidal pool.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/09 Monday 2:50 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I ate two hotdogs on buns with ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up my mail.

The order for Newegg.com - PLANTRONICS .Audio 70 3.5mm Supra-aural Analog PC Headset for $6.99 less $3 off with coupon code "HEADSET413" for $3.99 total with free shipping arrived.  I put it on the primary Latitude CS laptop computer, and I took off the Andrea Electronics headset, and I put it on the lower right bookcase shelf on the sideboard in the bedroom. 

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will take a nap in the afternoon like some people in Europe do.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/09 Monday 12:55 P.M..  Microsoft Office Online 2007 Home and Student $99.95

The Sony CD Juke box shipped today via U.S. Mail Parcel Post from Jacksonville, Alabama.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/09 Monday 12:30 P.M..  The NOAA weather warning system worked this morning National Weather Service Watch Warning Advisory Summary .  CIO

Note: <888> 04/06/09 Monday 12:05 P.M..  I woke up this morning at 7 A.M., when a friend called.  We chatted for a while.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I watched some television.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downstairs, and I chatted with neighbors.

Note: <888> 04/05/09 Sunday 11:55 P.M..  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good evening.  I do not have any appointments until this Thursday afternoon, but I have to be on a day schedule, in case my rent bill comes from the Greenwich Housing Authority, so I can pay it.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/09 Sunday 11:40 P.M..  When I was walking down Greenwich Avenue today around George Jensen jewelers, a little girl walking up Greenwich Avenue with her friend stepped on a small blue balloon on the sidewalk, and it exploded making a popping sound.  By the time I got back down to the Senior and the Arts center, everyone had disappeared on Greenwich Avenue, except for a few kids.

Earlier this evening, I called the local security office, and I told them about the large birds nest on top of the eagle statue on the tidal pond at Tod's Point.  From what I can tell it is 4 to 5 feet in diameter built with large sticks.  It could be a stork's nest, but storks are not common in North America.  There was a large white heron in the tidal pond by the windsurfing beach too, but I do not know what type of nests they build.  If it were an eagle's nest, which does not make sense, since I though eagles preferred to build nests at higher elevations, and an eagle can be dangerous, since they can dive bomb a target from thousands of feet in the air.  Out west they are known for killing sheep, and other smaller animals.  I was not close enough to the nest to see if there were any eggs or eaglets in the nest, and I did not see any eagles around, but I was driving my Audi, when I saw it, and I did not get out to observe more closely.   They also took down the bushes along the road before the windsurfing beach.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/09 Sunday 10:50 P.M..  I will probably put it in the Sony Cabinet underneath the Sony television.  I have an RCA connector cable, but I am not sure if it is long enough to reach the Technics amplifier.  I might need a pair of Y RCA male to RCA female splitters to connect it to the amplifier, and they are generally available at Radio Shack.  Or I could just disconnect the 5 DISK SONY CD player, and use its connection.  I also have the Phillips 5 Disk DVD player which will play CDs also.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/09 Sunday 10:45 P.M..  I bought SONY CD PLAYER Remote Control RM-DX300 CDP-CX300 - eBay (item 110371127225 end time Apr-29-09 18:08:53 PDT) for $14.99 and $3.99 shipping for $18.98 total. 

I printed out the manual for the CDP-CX355 here http://www.docs.sony.com/release/CDPCX355.PDF .  

This is the product page for it CDP-CX355 | CD MegaStorage® 300 Disc Changer | Sony | SonyStyle USA

The cheapest cost for a recertified new one, if you wanted a recertified one is $99 and $26 shipping here eCOST.com-Sony 300-Disc MegaStorage CD Changer - CDPCX355 - Sony CDPCX355 (CD /Cassette Deck) - eCOST.com - electronics, computers, laptops, mp3 players, so I have saved about $39 buying the used one versus recertified.  Hopefully it works out once I received the two items.

Note: <888> 04/05/09 Sunday 8:25 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.

Note: <888> 04/05/09 Sunday 6:55 P.M..  About 2 P.M., I ate two hotdogs with buns and mustard and ketchup and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips with some watered down passion punch.  I went out after the last note.  I tried to deposit my $10 PNY memory rebate check at the Chase Bank just west of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue, but their check feeder on the ATM machine would not work.  It might be because the rebate check was on heavier card stock.  I then went to the Chase Bank at the top of Greenwich Avenue, and I deposited it there.  I then parked downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought ten 5.5 ounce tubes of Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips for .88 each tube for $8.80 total.  I then completed my walk.  I sat out for a while.  I then returned home.  It was a nice warm sunny Palm Sunday, and there were lots of people strolling downtown.  The tulips downtown are only about half way out of the ground, so they probably will not be out for Easter.

Note: <888> 04/05/09 Sunday 1:25 P.M..  The early season hurricane forecast should be coming out soon The Tropical Meteorology Project: [FORECASTS]  CIO

Note: <888> 04/05/09 Sunday 1:20 P.M..  I woke up at 11 P.M. last night, and I microwaved and ate a bag of microwave popcorn with watered down passion punch.   On Friday night, I also microwaved and ate a Stouffer's 21 ounce frozen meat and tomato lasagna, which I ate with watered down passion punch.  I watched the movie "The Scorpion King".  I went to bed at 1 A.M..  I woke up at 6:30 A.M. this morning.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I went back to bed until 9 A.M., when I chatted with a relative.  I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have 15 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I also put clean linens on the bed.  I threw out the garbage.  I cleaned the Ionic Pro air purifier.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 04/04/09:

Note: <888> 04/04/09 Saturday 8:15 P.M..  Geological Society of America - 2009 GSA Annual Meeting

I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good evening.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/04/09 Saturday 5:15 P.M..  I submitted the $3.99 Staples rebate on the paper online.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/04/09 Saturday 4:45 P.M..  I woke up last night, and I ate a uncooked English muffin.  I slept until 6 A.M. this morning.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.   I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I watered the plants yesterday.  I went out, and I went by the Chase Bank on West Putnam just west of Greenwich Avenue.  I then drove all of the way over to Old Greenwich, Connecticut.  I went to the :::: The Haircut Place :::: .  I watched British football on television while waiting for the hair stylist.  I got my hair cut for $24 and $5 tip for $29 total.  I then went by the Old Greenwich Rummage Room.  Everything there is half price.  I bought a 4 inch by 6 inch wooden frame with glass for $1.50 and .09 tax for $1.59 total.  Somebody there with a tan bought a Heineken straw hat for $1.50 before I could buy it.  I browsed the circular at CVS.  I then drove out to Tod's Point.  I had to turn off and on my AT&T Go Phone to get it to work, and I chatted with a relative while parked at the southwest picnic area.  They are building a new house on the waterfront at Lauder Point.  The new house where Tom Watson's house use to be in Belle Haven is completed.  There is still a vacant lot where Victor Borge use to live.  There were a lot of dark clouds and high winds out of the northwest, possibly from when Mount Redoubt erupted at 6 A.M. this morning www.avo.alaska.edu .  I walked out to the southwest picnic area.  The Mortimer Memorial Tree is still there.  The 1895 Rock is still there.  The No Claming Signs with bullet holes are not there.  They have cleared more brush at Tod's Point.  There was one lonely windsurfer on the 50 degree Fahrenheit day.  There was a white heron out there.  Where the statue of the Eagle is at the tidal pond, some large bird has built a nest across the back and wings of the Eagle.  It looks like it could be an Eagle's Nest.  I stopped at the southeast concession area.  The concession stand is now opened.  I used the bathroom.  The U.S.A. flag is still flying.

I then drove over to Staples in Old Greenwich, and I bought a package of three clamp binders for $8.29 and two packages of Hammermill paper for $3.99 each and .98 tax for $17.25 total.  There is a $3.99 rebate on the second package of paper that I can file for online.  I chatted with another customer in the parking lot.  I then drove over to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  All of the clothes with yellow tags are half price.  I then went downtown, and I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by St. Moritz bakery, but they were out of croissants.  I looked at Planet Pizza, and a slice of cheese pizza there is $3.  Subway sandwich starts at $5.  The Chinese takeout starts at $5 to $7.  I then drove over to the Greenwich Automotive Service Gulf Station, and I bought $10.40 of self service premium gasoline for $2.559 a gallon for 4.065 gallons since last Saturday for 60.5 miles driven at 62,367 miles on the odometer for 14.8832 miles per gallon driving a little bit faster this week.  I then returned home.  I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up my mail.  My $10 PNY memory rebate check arrived.  I made and ate a breaded boneless breast of chicken breast with my steamed vegetable mixture with olive oil and a glass of watered down passion punch and a cup of Salada green tea with the hot vegetable water with a package of splenda and a couple teaspoons of lemon juice.   I put the wedding photo of Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maxima in the new frame, and I hung it over the top center of the inside of the apartment entrance door.  I am now displaying the old Paris post card in the old frame with saran wrap in between the two mirrors on the same door.  CIO    

Note: <888> 04/03/09 Friday 3:10 P.M..  I ate eight dried apricots.  I chatted with a relative.  It is raining cats and dogs outside.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/09 Friday 2:35 P.M..  A Volcano Rekindled; The Renewed Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 2004-2006

Note: <888> 04/03/09 Friday 2:10 P.M..  The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information for Newegg.com - Recertified: Canon PIXMA iP2600 2435B022AA Up to 22 ppm 4800 x 1200 dpi InkJet Photo Color Printer for $24.99 and less $10 with coupon code "RC243510" for $14.99 with free shipping arrived.  I put it on top of the filing cabinet in the bedroom next to the spare HP Photo printer.  It was made in Viet Nam, hopefully not by Missing P.O.W.s.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/03/09 Friday 2:00 P.M..  I put a little bit of chopped onion on the hot dogs.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/03/09 Friday 12:50 P.M..  I woke up at 6 A.M..  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.   I made my bed.

I ordered Newegg.com - PLANTRONICS .Audio 70 3.5mm Supra-aural Analog PC Headset for $6.99 less $3 off with coupon code "HEADSET413" for $3.99 total with free shipping.  I will put it with the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer replacing the older Andrea Electronics headset.

I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I put my shopping cart in the rear of the Audi.  I went downtown, and I went by CVS, and I picked up two prescriptions.  I got $2 in CVS bonus bucks, so I bought a package of CVS mint dental floss for $2.29 less $2 CVS bonus bucks and for .29 and .02 tax for .31 total.

I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought three eight packs of Stop and Shop hot dog buns for $5 all, two 64 ounce containers of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $3 each, a 30 ounce containers of Hellmann's reduced fat mayonnaise for $4.49, three 64 ounce Ocean Spray CranRaspberry juice for $2 each, three 64 ounce Ocean Spray CranGrape lite juice for $2 each, two 48 ounce Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $4.99 each, four 5 quart package boxes of Stop and Shop dried milk for $5.59 each five pack, two 8 ounce Stop and Shop grated parmesan and Romano cheese for $3.39 each, a three pound bag of yellow onions for $2.49, yellow green Chiquita bananas for .68 a pound for $1.68, and a three pound bag of small potatoes for $2.99 for $73.77 total.

I then returned home, and I used my cart to bring up the groceries.  I put away the groceries.  I chatted with a friend earlier and a out of town security organization.  I chatted with a relative, friend, and a local security organization.  I emailed INTERPOL about a 28 year old matter that came up today.  I chatted with a local walker. 

Note: <888> 04/02/09 Thursday 9:25 P.M..  I chatted with two relatives.  I cooked and ate a Stouffer's 15.5 ounce stuffed peppers dinner, and I ate it with a glass of watered down passion punch. 

For about the last month or more the NOAA weather radio test on Wednesday morning around noon has not been happening.

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good day.  I have to do some grocery shopping, when I wake up tomorrow.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/02/09 Thursday 6:55 P.M..  Health Action Now: Nationwide Town Hall

Note: <888> 04/02/09 Thursday 6:05 P.M..  I went downstairs, and I chatted with neighbors.  The building custodian is putting polyurethane on one of the benches from in front of the building, so the community room stinks a bit right now.  The mail is just being delivered about 10 minutes ago.  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/02/09 Thursday 4:55 P.M..  I woke up at noon.  I ate two hot dogs on buns with ketchup and mustard and watered down passion punch.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went by the Chase Bank just west of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue.  At the hair salon next to the Chase Bank, it costs $55 for a hair cut.  At Tony's on Church Street, it costs $20 for a hair cut.  I think I will let my hair grow longer, so I look like I am from Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.  Right now, I just look like a Vanderbilt.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I returned home.  I chatted with a friend.  I had another computer magazine telephone call.

I was asked about stocks, I suppose IBM, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Exxon, McDonalds, and Chevron might be at a good value right now, but I have not followed the stock market closely in 20 years, so I really do not know much about it.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/09 Thursday 9:55 A.M..  I chatted with www.cl-p.com , and I am now on the night time rate 7 for the last month.  Thus from noon to 8 P.M., I pay a slightly higher daytime rate, and from 8 P.M. to noon, I pay about 1/3rd less night time rate.  Hopefully, it will decrease my electricity bills, since I am frequently on a night time schedule.

I made and ate a three egg omelet with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and white processed cheese, six strips of fried bacon, and a toasted English muffin with margarine and watered down passion punch.

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will take a nap until noon, when I have to get up and get ready for my 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/09 Thursday 7:55 A.M..  I have not had my hair cut since mid September 2008, when I paid $15 to get it cut in Kennebunkport, Maine.  I usually get my hair cut in Old Greenwich at the :::: The Haircut Place ::::, but they now cost $24, and I usually give them a $5 tip, since I usually have longer hair, so it would cost me about $29 and about $5 in gasoline to go over there for about $34, but currently it is still a bit colder here outside, so I will wait another month until warmer weather sets in, where I will not feel the cold as much on my head.  One can lose 50% of one's body heat through one's head in colder temperatures, so there is no rush to get a hair cut.  On Greenwich Avenue, it costs $20 to get a hair cut, but since I have long curly hair, I usually go some place, where they know how to deal with it, instead of getting the standard preppy hair cut on Greenwich Avenue.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/09 Thursday 7:35 A.M..  This is the logon page for my Mortorola Surfboard SBV5120 Cable Modem 192.168.100.1/loginData.htm?logi···ON=Login  .  CIO 

Note: <888> 04/02/09 Thursday 6:45 A.M..  I ordered Newegg.com - Recertified: Canon PIXMA iP2600 2435B022AA Up to 22 ppm 4800 x 1200 dpi InkJet Photo Color Printer for $24.99 and less $10 with coupon code "RC243510" for $14.99 with free shipping.  I will just keep it for a spare.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/09 Thursday 6:00 A.M..  I ordered Craftsman 54 pc. Driving Set - 26393` at Sears.com for $12.49 and $6.25 shipping and $1.13 tax for $19.87 total.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/02/09 Thursday 5:20 A.M..  Obama's father is both a Kenyan and British citizen, so he went over to see Queen Elizabeth II http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/04/01/vo.uk.obamas.queen.meet.cnn?iref=videosearch .

According to this How tall is Obama - Google Search . He is is 6 foot 1.5 inches tall.

I first saw Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip probably around February 1958 or 1959 in Chicago, Illinois, when they were there on the Royal Yacht Britannia to celebrate the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway.  As I recall it was a cold winter in Chicago with blizzard going on.

Charlemagne's birthday Charlemagne (Holy Roman emperor) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Note: <888> 04/02/09 Thursday 4:20 A.M..  I woke up at 2 A.M..  I had a message from a friend on my telephone answering machine.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.   I made my bed.  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up my mail.  Another neighbor is up early.  CIO  

Note: <888> 04/01/09 Wednesday 3:20 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I drank a cup of Salada green tea with a packet of splenda and a couple of teaspoons of lemon juice.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor and the building custodian.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good evening.  There seems be a few more people venturing downtown when we occasionally have a warmer sunny day, which is not the case today.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/09 Wednesday 1:30 P.M..  These are the Motorola Cable modems SURFboard® Cable and Digital Voice Modems - Motorola USA , but one needs a V model to use with Optimum Voice.  The Cisco Linksys models of cable modems that I looked at do not have the V telephone port, and you had to use one of their routers with the V telephone port.

I will now make my burger on a Kaiser roll with sautéed onions and cheese and steamed vegetables with olive oil and watered down passion punch meal.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/09 Wednesday 11:50 A.M..  Before the last note, I had chatted with www.cablevision.com , and I was told that I could exchange my Motorola Surfboard SBV5120 cable modem for this newer model that has battery backup SBV5322 SURFboard® 4-Line Digital Voice Modem - Motorola USA .  When I went out, I drove over to the small Cablevision store in Harrison, New York on 47 Purdy Street about 6 miles away, and I was told to get battery backup on the newer cable modem would cost $45 for each of the two batteries that it uses.  I was also told the newer cable modem breaks frequently, and I was advised to keep the older model, so I decided to keep it.  They only had the newer models.  The larger Cablevision stores in Mamaroneck and Norwalk have the Scientific American, and the older one like I have, and the newer one.  The Cablevision store in Harrison, New York is only opened until 1 P.M..  I noticed in Harrison, New York, there were no pedestrians downtown.  By the Port Chester lumber yard there, there is a small automobile garage that charges $65 an hour for labor.  On the access road just west of the Playland Parkway, there are several large vacant office buildings with for sale and for rent signs.  I returned back home.  I chatted with neighbors.  I hooked up my old cable modem.  I chatted with a relative.  I faxed my Microsoft Money 2007 March 2009 income versus spending report to the relative.  I wished a friend Happy Birthday.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/09 Wednesday 8:20 A.M.. Look at "Refurbished IBM ThinkCentre" for $80.99 with shipping at dealnews.com: Find the best deals on computers, laptops, HDTV, iPods, and MP3 players.  If you have the spare parts like I do, one could increase it performance.

I did some routine maintenance work and calling.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will eat two hot dogs with buns and ketchup and mustard and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I will then shower and clean up, and I will go out to do some errands.  CIO

Note: <888> 04/01/09 Wednesday 3:55 A.M..  I woke up at 1:30 A.M..  Happy 59th birthday to George Gordon Cary.  Maybe he is related to Gordon Getty or Gordon's Gin, who knows?  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.   I made my bed.

I paid my April 2009 bills for www.geico.com automobile insurance, electricity at www.cl-p.com , Digital Cable Television, Optimum Online Optimum Boost Cable Modem service, and Optimum Voice Long Distance Telephone service at www.cablevision.com , and my local telephone at www.verizon.com .  I do not need to order cigarettes this months, since I stocked up on them last month, when they were cheaper.  I will now make up a fresh batch of passion punch.  I printed out two copies of my Microsoft Money 2007 March 2009 Income versus spending report, one of which I will fax to an interested relative.  CIO