Note: <888> 08/31/09  Monday 11:35 P.M..  I woke up at 10 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 5 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I ate two hot dogs with two buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out.  I went downtown, and I stopped by CVS.  I picked up a prescription.  I also bought two packages of four RTH 13 watt with equivalent light of 60 watt energy saver bulbs for $4.99 each four pack, a RTH six outlet surge protector for $4.99, and a box of 20 Debbie Meyer Green Bags for $9.99 and $1.50 tax for $26.46 total.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with some locals.  I gave a regular walker a half package of cigarettes and a Bic lighter, and I leant the person $2 to travel elsewhere.  I also gave somebody else a quarter who was just coming from getting stitches at the Greenwich Hospital.  I finished my walk.  I then returned home.  I printed out my Microsoft Money 2007 August 2009 income versus spending report.  I will fax it to a relative tomorrow.  I use the Debbie Meyer green bags for bananas. 

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Note: <888> 08/31/09  Monday 2:15 A.M..  I watched two James Bond movies.  I also ate 1/4th of a 9 ounce can of almonds.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed.  Mostly cloudy and a high of 72 degrees today.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/09  Sunday 9:15 P.M..  Greenwich Gossip.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/09  Sunday 9:10 P.M..  Schwarzenegger cautions against ignoring wildfire evacuations - CNN.com.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/09  Sunday 8:55 P.M..  While I was downtown this afternoon, I noticed that a moving van was parked in front of Best and Company, and they had removed the contents of the store by 4 P.M..  There is a For Lease sign above the store window, if anyone is interested in leasing a prominent store front on Greenwich Avenue next to the Greenwich Police station.  Maybe they will put another Chase www.chase.com bank there.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/09  Sunday 8:05 P.M..  I went outside, and I threw out the garbage.  I went to the end of the tag sale downstairs in the community room, and I bought a tin or pewter hurricane lamp with glass globe for $2.  I then hung it up with a OOK hook to the right side of the sweater closet in the hallway.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/30/09  Sunday 5:40 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  I chatted with a neighbor.  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 played a number 24 Crazy 8's scratch card for a dollar, and I won $8 for $7 profit.  I chatted with a couple of Greenwich Avenue regulars.  I toured CVS.  I chatted with a relative traveling on my wireless.  I chatted with somebody from Turkey.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf Station, and I bought $10 of self service premium gasoline at $3.199 a gallon for 3.126 gallons for 37.3 miles driving this past week for 11.932 miles per gallon driving for the last seven days at odometer reading of 64217 miles.  I then cleaned the outside windows on the Audi, and I checked the tires for 32 PSI all around.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a half gallon of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $2.50, a six pack of boneless pork medallions for $2.99 a pound for $8.28, and fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.71 for $12.49 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases. 

I will now sautéed two 7 ounce pork medallions with sliced onion, and I will eat them with sliced steamed vegetables with olive oil and a glass of watered down passion punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/30/09  Sunday 1:25 P.M..  I put away the laundry.  I eat an English muffin with a glass of cold filtered water.  I will now go downtown for a walk.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/09  Sunday 12:20 P.M..  Earlier I made up a fresh batch of Passion Punch.   CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/09  Sunday 12:05 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I have 45 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  They are having a tag sale in the Community Room downstairs at our apartment building at 71 Vinci Drive in Byram, Connecticut.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/30/09  Sunday 11:45 A.M..  I woke up at 8:30 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 10 minutes to go on the wash cycle.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO  

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/29/09: 

Note: <888> 08/29/09  Saturday 11:35 P.M..  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail, and I got the www.time.com magazine commemorative edition of Ted Kennedy.  I will read it later, when I have the time.  Possibility tomorrow of afternoon showers and high of 81 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

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I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed. 

Note: <888> 08/29/09  Saturday 10:00 P.M..  I finished watching Ted Kennedy's burial in the dark on www.msnbc.com .  I chatted with  a relative.

Note: <888> 08/29/09  Saturday 7:40 P.M..  Setback in Dutch Girl’s Plans for a World Voyage - NYTimes.com

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Note: <888> 08/29/09  Saturday 6:55 P.M..  I woke up at 6:30 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I went back to bed until 10 A.M..  I watched the Ted Kennedy funeral on www.msnbc.com until 1:30 P.M..  I ate a 12 ounce container of almonds with watered down passion punch.  I took a nap until 5 P.M..  I chatted with a relative while I was napping.  I am now watching the Ted Kennedy funeral on www.msnbc.com .  They are running late, so it looks like the burial at Arlington cemetery will be after the sun sets.  CIO    

Note: <888> 08/28/09  Saturday 10:40 P.M..  I ate a three egg omelet with Swiss cheese and grated parmesan cheese and five strips of bacon and a toasted English muffin with olive oil and watered down passion punch.  I watched the Ted Kennedy memorial from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum on www.msnbc.com .  I learned that Ted Kennedy used to sleep on his boat when in Nantucket, so maybe I saw him around when I used to walk around the waterfront and the piers on Nantucket.  One can see their house in Hyannisport from the ferry boat when one goes out to Nantucket.   I know some of his relatives use to work on the Nantucket Hyland ferry service, but up in Boston so many Irish look the same, it is hard to recognize one from another.  They also change appearances depending on whether or not they can afford a hair cut.

NASA - Shuttle and Station at a 11:59 P.M. this evening.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go back to sleep soon.  I sometimes feel like I am still in Greenwich, China as opposed to Greenwich, Connecticut.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/28/09  Friday 6:20 P.M..  I went downstairs, and I picked up the mail.  I chatted with neighbors.  I received notification from www.forbes.com that my renewal subscription was received, and it would start this September 2009.  Since I already have a subscription, I called up their circulation department in Iowa at1-515-284-0693, and they made the new subscription a renewal, so my currents subscriptions run through January 23, 2011.  I cleaned the Ionic Pro air purifier.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/28/09  Friday 5:10 P.M..  I went outside briefly, and I chatted with neighbors.  The mail as of 4 P.M. still was not here.

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Note: <888> 08/28/09  Friday 3:45 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 used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center.  I stopped by CVS, and I got a 7.5 ounce container of CVS antibacterial hand soap for free with a internet coupon that I was emailed. 

While sitting out downtown, I saw a beer truck from Nantucket that said Cisco Brewers.  I guess the stranded sailors are not as thirsty anymore. 

I was told that Tropical Storm DANNY 3 day tracking might bring some rain and wind our way tonight and this weekend.

Note: <888> 08/28/09  Friday 10:15 A.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will now shower and clean up, and I will go out for a walk or other errands.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/28/09  Friday 9:55 A.M..  Happy Birthday to a friend.  I woke up at 7 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a relative.

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Note: <888> 08/27/09  Thursday 8:00 P.M..  I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors, and I walked around the building.  I watched some television.  I chatted with a relative.  I will probably be going back up to Kennebunkport, Maine a couple of days after Labor Day depending on the weather.  Showers tomorrow with a high of 70 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good night.  CIO 

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Note: <888> 08/27/09  Thursday 3:15 P.M..  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.  An old airplane about the size of a DC3 with two tails and two engines flew by to land at nearby Westchester Country airport.  Possibly they might be having an air show there.  I picked up the mail.  CIO   

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I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/27/09  Thursday 12:05 P.M..  I woke up at 7 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I installed all of the updates on all of the computers http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm on all of the different partitions.  My appointment next Friday has been cancelled.  I will now eat the same dinner as yesterday.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/26/09  Wednesday 6:45 P.M..  After dinner, I ate a piece of pumpkin pie.  I went outside, and I moved my car to its usual place.  I chatted with neighbors.  I called the Greenwich Housing Authority at 1-800-869-1138 about a minor maintenance problem outside.  I took a shower to clean off my newly cut hair.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/26/09  Wednesday 4:00 P.M..  I woke up at 1:30 A.M..  I went back to bed at 2 A.M., and I finally woke up at 5 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a friend about Omega 3 fish oil, and he recommended me take COQ10, but I researched it on the internet, and it is too expensive.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I stopped by CVS, and I bought buy one get one free of CVS Value Size Natural Fish Oil 1000 MG Omega 3 fatty acids 400 Softgels for $18.99 both.  I then drove further down Greenwich Avenue, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I found a quarter on the ground at one of the benches downtown.  I next drove over to Old Greenwich turning right at St. Catherine's and taking the back way.  I noticed that Augie Amudsen's old marina boat house is for sale, but I learned two or three years ago that it can flood down there.  I went to the Chase Bank in Old Greenwich.  I then went to the :::: The Haircut Place :::: , and I got my hair cut for $24 and $5 tip for $29 total.  I had not been there since before Easter, so I needed a hair cut.  I then walked over to the Old Greenwich Rummage Room, but they are not opening until Monday August 31, 2009.  I then looked at COQ10 at CVS, but it is too expensive, and even when it might be buy one get one free, it would be too expensive.  I then drove out to Tod's Point, and I chatted with a relative on my wireless phone.  I enjoyed the view of Greenwich coast line from the southwest parking area, and I also sat out at the southwest picnic area.  I used the Porta Potty available there.  I then sat out for a while at the Southeast Beach area.  They have a new U.S.A. flag there, the last time I was there one of ends was flying free.  It was about the lowest tide I have ever seen at Tod's Point.  They now have all terrain vehicles patrolling out there.  I then drove back to downtown Greenwich the same back way.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  Everything is half price.  They have a very large Panasonic television there that would be $22.50 half price, but you would have to be able to lift it and fit it into your car or some other larger vehicle.  I bought a Woods Power strip there for $2.50.  I then sat out briefly downtown.  I then returned back home, and I picked up the mail.  I then went by the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue.  I then returned home.  I will now eat the same meal as yesterday without the corn on the cob.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/25/09 Tuesday 5:35 P.M..  I ate a piece of pumpkin pie with watered down passion punch.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  When I chatted with a relative, they told me a Delaware limited liability company means that one could lose their money if you bought one of the apartments across the street at Greenwich Place.  It would seem that the Greenwich Time www.greenwichtime.com should have been more specific in their article about the current status.  Moreover, I think the current vice president is from Delaware, so it shows what type of business practices they shield.  So much for constant comment.  However, that is not to say this area is any better as far as ethics.  When I saw John Lindsay lecture on ethics at the Yale www.yale.edu law school back around 1980 or 1983, I was surprised that only about a dozen people showed up at the lecture.  John Lindsay's twin brother David worked for Davis Polk Wardwell which is one of the two law firms at the www.chase.com plaza in downtown Manhattan, and the other is Cravath Swaine and Moore.  Since they are in the Chase building, they might have something to do with Chase.   CIO

Note: <888> 08/25/09 Tuesday 3:35 P.M..  I went outside, and I threw away the garbage.  I sat out for a while.  I chatted with neighbors.  I walked around the building.  I picked up the mail.  I called up the The Delamar on Greenwich Harbor.  They told me, they now have a spa on the second floor.

Note: <888> 08/25/09 Tuesday 1:45 P.M..  I ate the cold beef dinner with steamed vegetables and watered down passion punch and a cup of green tea.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/25/09 Tuesday 12:25 P.M..  Global Knowledge IT Training - Microsoft Windows 7 Review Guide

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Note: <888> 08/25/09 Tuesday 10:40 P.M..  I woke up last night about 9 P.M., and I went outside briefly.  I thought I had heard a car alarm going off in the parking lot.  I ate a English muffin, and I went back to bed.  Later on, I woke up, and I ate half of a 9 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.  I finally woke up at 5 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I read the most recent issues of Time and Forbes magazine.  Forbes has an article that Omega 3 fish oil pills are suppose to be good for heart health.  I have been told in the past the fish oil pills can coat one's stomach, so other medications do not work.  I finished off the can of almonds.

Locally in my neighborhood, we have the old Putnam Green Apartment complex across the street that use to rent for $500 a month back in 1978, when I lived there for a couple of months after a relative moved away from there.  They have been fixed up as condominiums, and I think they are called Greenwich Common, and I think they sell for $750,000 to $1,500,000.  They do have separate garages underneath the apartments, but they were built before I arrived here in 1961, so they are not necessarily the newest buildings, and they have cathedral ceilings which can be expensive for heat. 

Across the street on West Putnam Avenue, there is Great Waters of France owned my Nestle.  There is a Brazilian delicatessen.  There is a Chinese dry cleaner.  Also there is a Jeep dealership.  Then there is a car wash, and the 24 hour Mobil gasoline station with a convenience store that sells Dunkin Donuts.  The United Jewish Appeal is across the street from that.  Across the street from that is a big hole in the ground, where they are suppose to build a new CVS.  Then there is about a quarter mile of office buildings towards downtown Greenwich, before all of the expensive card dealerships and fast food restaurants, and then the downtown grocery stores, and the office buildings downtown and Greenwich Library.  Thus we have a bit of commerce going on in this area that some people do not seem to realize, since they are so focused on Greenwich Avenue.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/24/09 Monday 5:05 P.M..  I will skip my email for now.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good evening.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/09 Monday 4:50 P.M..  I read last week that Rogue Waves are a lot more common than most people realize Girl, 7, Dies After Rogue Wave Sweeps Her Out to Sea | NBC New York

Rogue wave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/09 Monday 4:00 P.M..  Town Center Dental at the Stamford, Connecticut Town Center at 100 Greyrock Place, Stamford, Connecticut at 1-203-348-0300 takes Connecticut State Medicaid.  I called them up, and they told me it takes two visits for a dental crown.  I will set up an appointment with them when I return from Maine towards the end of September 2009.  They are next to the Barnes and Noble store on the four floor of the Town Center.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/24/09 Monday 3:00 P.M..  I ate a piece of pumpkin pie.  I picked up my mail.  I got a brochure from www.GreenwichCTDentist.com .  I called them up, but they do not take Connecticut Medicaid.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/09 Monday 1:55 P.M..  After dinner, I drank a cup of salada green tea with lemon juice and a packet of splenda sweetener.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.  I chatted with a friend.  Not much seems to be going on in the world around here anymore, now that the financial community in Greenwich, Connecticut is down on their luck.  Nobody knows anything about the hedge funds that are here, or at least nobody is publishing anything that I know about.  I was told by a www.chase.com employee that they are suppose to have $2 trillion in assets, so maybe they know more at one of their numerous branches here.  The Bank of New York The Bank of New York Mellon is pretty much a private bank, and all I know about it is that Elihu Roosevelt started it over 200 years ago, and I guess the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are now involved in it too.  I do know Billy Baldwin Design Legends: Billy Baldwin: Design Legends: architecturaldigest.com and Amazon.com: Billy Baldwin once decorated a house in Nantucket for a Mellon family member, and the same Mellon family member was seen having lunch numerous times with Jackie Kennedy Onassis in the old days out there, so they probably know each other, unless they just happened to be seated at the same table together a number of times.  I know they occasionally had lunch on the back terrace of the Languedoc restaurant where I worked, and I was told they were also seen eating at the Boarding Housing restaurant sidewalk cafe across from the downtown post office in Nantucket.  However, I never followed the society press, so all I know is what other people told me.  Since restaurant employees tend to drink lots of alcohol, they frequently are not reliable sources of information.

Note: <888> 08/24/09 Monday 11:05 A.M..  I took the 3.5 pound eye round of beef, and I put it on a small roasting rack on a small baking tray, and I coated it all over with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning and K.C. Masterpiece barbeque sauce.  I am baking it in the Sharp convection oven on Convection at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 43 minutes.  It should be ready in 25 minutes.  I will eat two half inch thick slices with the juices, and I will refrigerate the rest in a large Rubbermaid Container.  I will eat it with my usual vegetable mixture with is steamed broccoli crowns, baby carrots, and small red potatoes cut into eights with olive oil on them.  I will also have an ear of corn on the cob.  One of the ears of corn on the cob that I bought yesterday at the Stop and Shop was no good with no kernels, and the one that I am steaming is only about 70% good.  I guess I should peel the corn before buying it or buy the peeled corn on the cob.  When I eat the cold eye round of beef on future days, I cut it about two 7/16th inch thick slices, and I put horseradish and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce on them, and I eat the two slices of beef with my usual vegetable mixture.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/24/09 Monday 10:20 A.M..  I chatted with a relative after the last note.  I woke up, and I ate a 9.75 ounce can of CVS cashew nuts bits and pieces.  I woke up again around 1 A.M., and I watched part of a movie on TBS.  I finally woke up at 4 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  It looked like the normal business crowd is back from vacation.  Starbucks was busy.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  The police were going through all of the garbage cans around the central downtown area, because somebody unknown had ditched something, but they did not tell me what.  I looked into a few garbage cans, but they were all empty, because the morning sanitation department had already emptied them.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  After my walk, I drove up to CVS, and I looked in all of the garbage cans around CVS, but they were empty.  I went to CVS, when they opened at 8 A.M...  I bought two five packs of Bic lighters for $7 both and .42 tax for $7.42.  I then bought two nine ounce cans of CVS smoked almonds for $3.50 each for $7 total.  Since I had my car with me, I bought four 45 ounce bottles of Xtra 2X Tropical Passion laundry detergent for $1.99 each and.48 tax for $8.44 total.  I put my purchases in the car, and then I went back inside, and I bought two more 45 ounce Xtra 2X Tropical Passion laundry detergent for $1.99 each and .24 tax for $4.22 total.  I then returned back to my apartment.  I put the extra detergent in the bathroom underneath the sink and along side the wall opposite the bathtub.  I chatted with a relative.

It is suppose to be sunny all week.

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Note: <888> 08/23/09 Sunday 12:05 P.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will either go to bed soon or watch a bit of television first.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/23/09 Sunday 11:30 A.M..  I reheated and ate the same primary dinner as yesterday.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/23/09: 

Note: <888> 08/23/09 Sunday 10:20 A.M..  On those two dates below, I have to pick up and drop off a relative at the Manchester, New Hampshire airport.  Also my two friends from Georgia depending on their travel plans and how they feel might be driving up with me to Maine, when I go up there.  The relatives in Maine had the deck pressure cleaned.  They had two coats of grey stain water proofing sealant put on the deck.  They are going to plant some more grass seed underneath the deck where the bushes were taken out, after the deck is finished.  They raked the gravel out of the dirt underneath the deck, which was exposed by the heavy rain after the grass seed was spread there.  Apparently some of the grass seed washed away, so they need to plant more grass seed and cover it with something like straw to protect it.  Also the piece of cheery wood that I put on the north lower side of the garage door entrance to keep mice from chewing their way into the garage was not caused by mice, but by carpenter ants, so they have to have an exterminator, and patch up that spot, so carpenter ants will not get into the garage wall.  I could not cut the cherry wood, and I left about a half inch space between the cheery wood and the cement, so it would need to be caulked or a bigger piece put in, so carpenter ants can not get in. 

I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/23/09 Sunday 9:45 A.M..  I checked the oil level on the Audi, and it is fine.  I said good morning to neighbors.  When I was at the Gulf station, I checked the tires for 32 PSI all around, and I also cleaned the outside of the Audi windows.

If you look at 1998 Audi A6 owned by Michael Scott , I had the Audi oil and filter changed last November 5, 2008 at Oil Star over in Stamford, Connecticut for $54.40 at 61,814 miles, and since the Audi now has 64,179 miles less the 61814 miles at oil change, I have driven 2365 miles since the oil change, so I figure after I made my final trip to Kennebunkport, Maine before September 16, 2009 and return after September 23, 2009.  I will get the oil and filter changed sometime after I return.   CIO

Note: <888> 08/23/09 Sunday 8:50 A.M..  I went out after the last note.  I chatted with a neighbor.  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 tried to use the bathroom at Starbucks, but it was busy.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf Station, and I bought $7.01 of self service premium gasoline at $3.199 a gallon for 2.190 gallons for 27.3 miles driving in the last eight days for 12.4658 miles per gallon at odometer reading of 64179 miles.  I then went to the Stop and Shop.  I bought a eight pack of Stop and Shop hot dog buns for $1.67, a half gallon of Stop and Shop premium orange juice for $2.50, a dozen extra large eggs for expire September 25, 2009 for $2.39, three 12 ounce cans of Emerald dried almonds for $10 all, a 12 ounce container of Guldens mustard for $1, two quart jars of Vlassic kosher dill spears for $2 each, a 48 ounce container of Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $4.99, three half gallons of Stop and Shop grape juice for $3.49 each, three half gallons of Stop and Shop cranraspberry juice for $3 each, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99,  a two pound bag of baby red potatoes for $2.99, fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.96, broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $2.29, and three ears of corn on the cob for $1 for $59.74 total.  I then went across the street to the A&P, and I bought an eye round roast for $2.99 a pound for $11.84, two 12 packs of English muffins for $1.99 each 12 pack, and a fresh pumpkin pie for $3 for $18.82 total.  The last day of sale for the eye round roast was today August 23, 2009, but hopefully, it will be all right once cooked tomorrow.  I then returned home.  I used my cart that I had brought with me to bring up the groceries.  I put them away.  I drank some watered down passion punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/23/09 Sunday 5:25 A.M..  I chatted with a neighbor, and I put away the laundry.  I ate two hot dogs with two buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 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 now shut down the primary Vista computer.  There might be showers, but I will now go out for an early morning walk.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/23/09 Sunday 4:05 A.M..  I have 20 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I shopped cappuccino machines on the internet, and I think the prices I get at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop are better.  I am using my primary Braun cappuccino machine, and I have spare Krups cappuccino and coffee combination machine.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/23/09 Sunday 2:40 A.M..  After the last note, I watched the movie Dr. Strangelove on TBS.  At the same time, I did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I went to bed at 3 P.M..  I woke up at midnight.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 45 minutes to go on the wash cycle.  I threw out the garbage.  There are suppose to be showers today with a high of 80 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/22/09 Saturday 12:10 P.M..  I made and ate half of a tomato meat sauce dinner with linguine, and I refrigerated the other half.  I ate it all with watered down passion punch.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/22/09 Saturday 10:40 A.M..  Storm Toppled Scores of Trees in Central Park - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

Note: <888> 08/22/09 Saturday 9:50 A.M..  I went to bed after the last note.  I woke up at 8 P.M., and I chatted with two friends.  I went back to bed until 2 A.M..  I watched a James Bond movie on the Bravo channel.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 9 A.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I got out the Daewoo DVD VCR instructions from beneath the component rack in the living room.  To set the time, one has to press VCR and then Setup on the remote control, so the time is now set on the Daewoo unit in the bedroom.  I also setup its auto program.  I left the Daewoo instructions in the right night stand beneath the remote controls.  It rained heavily earlier this morning.  It is suppose to rain all day.  CIO     

Note: <888> 08/21/09 Friday 6:00 P.M..  I chatted with a relative briefly.  I am now going to shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go back to bed soon.   CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/09 Friday 5:05 P.M..  Intelligent Client-Side Defense for Stolen Computers by Intel and Absolute - White Paper

Note: <888> 08/21/09 Friday 4:40 P.M..  It is starting to rain.  I made and ate two tuna fish sandwiches which I ate with 1/4th of a 6.2 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> 08/21/09 Friday 3:40 P.M..  I woke up at 10 A.M..  I ate two hot dogs with two buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I watered the plants.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up yesterday's mail.  I went out, and I went by the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue.  I put my $10 survey check in the bank.  I then went to one of my regular appointments.  I then returned home.  I picked up today's mail.  The kitchen overhead florescent light would not work, but I got it to work by taking the cover off, and pulling off and reconnecting the wire to the florescent bulb in it.  I put the cover back on it.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/21/09 Friday 6:00 A.M..  I ate the rest of the can of mixed nuts.  I will now go back to bed until 11 A.M..  I have a 2 P.M. appointment this afternoon.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/09 Friday 5:40 A.M..  USGS Release: Recovery Funding for Hawai`i and Other Volcano Observatories to Improve Monitoring and Public Safety (8/13/2009 4:32:09 PM)

Note: <888> 08/21/09 Friday 4:15 A.M..  I have not had many visitors to my colder apartment in the 20 years that I have lived here.  The most frequent regular visitor over 20 year until 3 years ago was from Stowe, Vermont.  An occasional visitor over the years was from East Aurora, New York.  Another visitor for a few times was from Jay Peak, Vermont.  Another visitors a few times was from upper Minnesota.  A friend from Plandome Manor, Long Island visited about a half dozen times, but never stayed very long, and the last time he showed up was wearing a United States Embassy in Thailand T-shirt.  When I first moved in here, somebody who had recently graduated from the University of Vermont visited a few times.  Another friend from Brazil toured the building with me, before I moved in here, but he never showed up after I moved in here.  The apartment before at 700 Steamboat Road where he visited regularly was well heated, because the rather large furnace in the basement heated the entire apartment complex to the south of it, so the heat would rise into the second floor apartment overlooking the waterfront of Greenwich Harbor.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/21/09 Friday 3:55 A.M..  From my experience on walking the full length of Greenwich Avenue for 26 years or more recently and having lived here since 1961, I noticed they are redoing the sidewalk on the east of the downtown Greenwich post office with the stimulus money, and from what I could tell before, it was in perfectly good shape without any cracks or deterioration.

I also noticed with the tropical winds that have come into the area recently, I saw two dead two inch long horse flies on Greenwich Avenue this morning.  I have yet to see any dragon flies.

Also when I told the Greenwich Housing Authority representative yesterday that I would not be using any electric heat this coming winter to save money, I was told that if the water pipes freeze in my apartment, I would be responsible for it.  However, it never goes below 58 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment for the past two winters, and I have the two oil filled DeLonghi oil filled radiators that I keep by two sitting areas in the living room, and I frequently turn them on for two or three hours to provide a little local heat in the living where I am sitting without heating up the whole apartment.  Also the circular energy saving light bulbs that I use through out the apartment provide about 5 degrees Fahrenheit more of heat, so when I turn on the lights, it usually goes up to 63 degrees Fahrenheit.  Besides wearing the two pairs of L.L. Bean union suits such as two L.L.Bean: union suit of Two-Layer Union Suit, Men's in tall XX-Large in Red for $54 each with free shipping with promotion coupon of "3012422" and $6.48 tax for $114.48 total, I also take out the air conditioner and close the window all of the way.  I also keep an electric blanket on my bed along with two heavy comforters, so I am well prepared for another winter.  If it should get any colder in the apartment, I could always turn on the base board electric heat to warm it up a bit.  I also use the tower fans to blow any available heat around the apartment, so it does not all go up into the false ceiling.  I have been told that I should be eligible for supplementary funds from the town of Greenwich for heat.  Also I have been told that anyone who received grants from the Connecticut energy assistance program this past spring will receive an extra $200 in their electric accounts this September 2009.  However, since this summer is running about 5 degrees Fahrenheit colder, I expect a colder winter this coming winter.  When I first moved here in 1961 from Decatur, Alabama, the ponds in back country Greenwich off Round Hill Road would have six inches of ice by the second week of October, so we have seen colder weather in this area in the past.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/21/09 Friday 2:30 A.M..  I woke up while I was asleep, and I ate 75% of a 9.75 ounce can of Planters Heart Healthy mixed nuts.  I finally woke up at 6:30 P.M..  I chatted with two relatives.  I went back to bed until midnight.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.

I posted pictures of the few minor changes in the apartment recently http://mikelouisscott.com/apt-082109/ .   CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/09 Thursday 2:20 P.M..  I went outside, and I moved my car to its usual place.  I chatted with neighbors.  I chatted with a Greenwich Housing Authority representative.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate two hot dogs with two buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I made up a fresh batch of passion punch.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good afternoon.  Scattered thunderstorms tomorrow with a high of 85 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/20/09 Thursday 11:50 A.M..  I used the watch wrench to open the back of my Gruen watch that looks like the older Rolex watch, but I only paid $50 for it at Caldors 20 years ago.  I removed the CR927 battery, and I have plenty of SR927 batteries, so I put a new one in.  I had a bit of trouble getting the small thin metal lever to hold it securely in place, so once I had it relatively secure, I cut a Thomas' English muffin plastic tab to a round size to fit in the back of the watch, and placed it in the back of the watch against the small metal latch and I screwed the back on, and I tightened it with the watch wrench, and it seems the battery is securely in place, and the watch is running just fine.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/09 Thursday 10:40 A.M..  I went out after the last note.  I went downtown.  I gave my green Bic lighter to a construction worker on the new public safety building whom needed a lighter.  I had a spare.  I chatted with him about construction.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a regular.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought a Fast Cash scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  It was quite busy downtown in the later morning hours, but hotter.  They have trees on top of the new building on the right at the bottom of Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by CVS, and I used the bathroom.  I bought four 9.75 ounce Planters NUT-rition Heart Healthy Mix for 2 for $7 for $14 total.  I finished my walk, and I noticed at the Senior and the Arts Center, they are bringing in artwork for some sort of art show.  I chatted with one of the artists from Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a 24 inch by 36 inch in modern steel black frame with glass, a Picasso print in pastel colors for half price for $7.50.   I guess they are still half price at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  They still take donations there until August 22, 2009.  The new Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop across from the Hamilton Avenue school will open in late September 2009.  Summer clothes in a bag are $15, and a lot of other clothes are marked down.  I then returned home.  I used two metal book ends interlaced together, and I put the Picasso print wedged in between them at the base on the Cambridge Soundworks bass speaker behind the FIC server monitor in the left most living room window shelf, so it is nicely displayed in front of the beige curtain.   I cleaned the print first, and it fits in quite well.  It is not signed by Picasso, but his name is in big block letters at the bottom.  It is the one with the characters with goofy eyes and a wine jug.  I had to reset the Cable Modem since it was not working, but it is working now.  I now have to replace the battery on my Gruen watch, since it quit working.  I have the watch opener kit and spare batteries for it.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/20/09 Thursday 5:45 A.M..  I ate the same dinner as two, four, and five nights ago.

Note: <888> 08/20/09 Thursday 4:30 A.M..  Where your money goes DefenseLink Press Advisory: List of Top 100 Defense Contractors Now Available, but the list does not come up.

Note: <888> 08/20/09 Thursday 3:15 A.M..  The fixed version of Weather Pulse is on all of the computer and all of their partitions except for the Ubuntu partitions.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/20/09 Thursday 1:35 A.M..  I woke up at 5 P.M., when I got three annoying telephone calls from a telemarketer.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with two relatives and a friend.  I went back to bed until 12:30 A.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  The Weather Pulse program is not working, and it shows a false positive in the MacAfee Antivirus 2008 virus scan, when it starts up, and then McAfee Antivirus 2008 deletes the program.  The Weather Pulse page Weather Pulse, weather software says they have done an emergency bug fix, but the download still does not download yet, but the good news is that you can RUN the file with the fix instead of downloading it, and it installs properly.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/19/09 Wednesday 8:35 A.M..  CTFLUWATCH: CT Towns with Confirmed Swine Flu Cases

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.   Have a good day.  Possible showers this evening with a high of 91 degrees Fahrenheit.  I  woke up yesterday, and I ate half of a 12 ounce container of almonds, and earlier this morning I ate the other half.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/19/09 Wednesday 8:05 A.M..  Bill Clinton (president of United States) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia birthday today.

Note: <888> 08/19/09 Wednesday 6:55 A.M..  I woke up at 8:30 P.M., when a relative called.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I watched some television.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I refilled the two antibacterial soap dispensers by the two sinks in the apartment.  I read the two most recent issues of www.time.com and the most recent issue of www.forbes.com .  Quite a bit of information in them that I have not gotten off the internet.  I ate a ham and Swiss cheese sandwich on a bulky roll with 1/4th of a 6.2 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> 08/18/09 Tuesday 12:40 P.M..  I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up the mail.

Note: <888> 08/18/09 Tuesday 11:55 A.M..  I ate a ham and Swiss cheese sandwich on a bulky roll with 1/4th of a 6.2 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> 08/18/09 Tuesday 11:15 A.M.. See what Bill has to say this week Greenwich Gossip  CIO

Note: <888> 08/18/09 Tuesday 11:05 A.M..  Hulu - The Simpsons

Note: <888> 08/18/09 Tuesday 10:45 A.M..  Geeks.com - Sales free shipping on $49.99

Virginia Dare (English colonist) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Note: <888> 08/18/09 Tuesday 9:45 A.M..  I woke up yesterday afternoon, when a relative called at 5:30 P.M..  I went back to bed until 9 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I watched some television.  I went back to bed until 1:30 A.M..  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I surfed the internet.  I ate the same dinner as two and three nights ago.  About 5 A.M. to 8 A.M., I did my house cleaning, which I had not done in a couple of months.  I used Lysol 4 in 1 cleaner instead of white vinegar.  I also cleaned the WaterPik, and I also cleaned the air conditioner filter.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up yesterday's mail.  I drank a A&W diet root beer.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with a relative.

Note: <888> 08/17/09 Monday 9:15 A.M..  Mostly sunny with a high of 94 degrees Fahrenheit today and tomorrow.   I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon or watch some television.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/17/09 Monday 8:50 A.M..  I ate the rest of the 16 ounce jar of Planter's Dry Roasted Peanuts.  I chatted with www.bestbuy.com , and they were not sure if the 10% off coupon was good on laptops or not, and they said I should check with a local store.

Note: <888> 08/17/09 Monday 7:40 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.  I used the bathroom at the train station.  The 4:52 A.M. into Manhattan came in on the Stamford bound track 4 on the south side of the station, so maybe the later trains today are doing the same thing.  The usual fleet of garbage trucks were out making their morning rounds.  I noticed the so called message parlor above Subway sandwich up towards the top of Greenwich Avenue has letters on their doorway to the left of the Subway sandwich entrance that says "SPA", so I would not say they are a message parlor in terms of what some people think of as a message parlor.  Still for older women, they would have to climb the flight of stairs.  I saw a few of the regular morning walkers.  About the earliest place to get coffee in the early morning is the news stand just across the street from Abis Japanese restaurant on the right hand side of the street of lower Greenwich Avenue just south of the Chinese quick take out food place.  Needless to say, there did not seem to be much happening in the early morning hours in Greenwich Avenue other than what would be expected.  I guess the more fashionable business community does not start to get to work until much later.  Starbucks was opening at 6 A.M..  I guess because we are in the suburbs where people watch a lot of television, a lot of Greenwich people stay up late at night, and get up later in the morning.  As Walter Cronkite said in New York City after work, you realize there are millions of people whom do not watch television, so I guess the Urban Manhattan people have a different perspective than the suburban Greenwich, Connecticut people.  Baker Furniture and the women's store to the south of it have sales going on.  I met the owner of Baker Furniture at the Mayfair Restaurant on First Avenue and 54th Street about 20 years ago, when I also met Ema McDonald.  The owner of Baker furniture told me his family had once owned the three Bricks on Main Street in Nantucket as well as the Hope Diamond.  Since Baker Furniture Baker Interiors : Contemporary Furniture : Living Room Furniture - comes from Grand Rapids, Michigan near Holland, Michigan, they are probably former neighbors of my mother's family the Bovan family in Holland, Michigan.  Speaking of family the relatives in Kennebunkport, Maine have had the outside deck pressure cleaned, and they are now going to have it waterproofed with a better waterproofing paint today by the local Kennebunkport painter.  In Nantucket in the old days, the www.amway.com Amway Yacht the Enterprise use to be up in Nantucket all summer long, and Amway also comes from Grand Rapids, Michigan as Gerald Ford also came from Grand Rapids, Michigan.  I played golf at the Grand Rapids Country Club when I was about eight years old with my Uncle Ron and father and some of their friends.  After my walk, I returned home, and I chatted with neighbors.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/17/09 Monday 4:15 A.M..  I did some routine computer work.  I ate a ham and Swiss cheese sandwich on a bulky roll with 1/4th of a 6.2 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 now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for an early morning walk.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/17/09 Monday 2:30 A.M..  I applied to Best Buy for credit, so I could possibly buy the Acer laptop, but I was turned down by HSBC their credit handler, and I checked out my credit at

http://www.experian.com/reportaccess , and there is nothing wrong with my credit, but since I always pay cash, I do not have much of a credit history.  I would not want the Best Buy credit card anyway, since their rates are over 25% per annum.  Anyway, I do not really need another laptop, since I do not travel far away from my apartment home office, and what I already have is more than sufficient.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/17/09 Monday 1:30 A.M..  Well here is a deal $279.99 Acer - Laptop with AMD Athlon™ Processor - AS5516-5474 still available in our local stores, and possibly with this 10% off coupon good through today http://image.emailinfo2.bestbuy.com/lib/fef41d77766c04/m/1/ESE_20090813_NonRZ_Couponsv2.pdf, you could get an additional 10% off, but the fine print says it is not good on sale items, but the advertisement does not say it is a sale item or list a regular price, so one might get the 10% discount, but one would still have to pay 6% Connecticut sale tax, so it might turn out to be, $279.99 minus $28 or $251.99 plus 6% sale tax plus $15.12 or $267.11 total, but one should check with one's local store first, and obviously, one would have to have $267.11 in cash, which I do not.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/17/09 Monday 12:50 A.M..  I installed the weight loss program on the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer.  I currently weigh 212 pounds and I am 6 feet all and medium build.  It says that to lose 20 pounds in 90 days, I should be on a 1800 calorie a day diet.  My ideal weight would be 158 to 170 pounds.  Thus I would need to lose 42 to 54 pounds.  In the old days I kept my weight down by going out discotecquing all night and standing on my feet in late night pubs in New York not drinking alcohol, but at age 59, I do not think that is an option.  I guess I should look into an 1800 calorie a day diet plan. 

Note: <888> 08/16/09 Sunday 11:30 P.M..  I had a telephone call from a relative, while I was asleep.  I woke up at 8 P.M..  I chatted with two relatives and a friend.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I watched a bit of television.  After spending 20 years on the internet working with personal computers, I tend not to find the local television very interesting.  Well at this hour in the morning, I am just going to work on the computer, when the early birds in Europe are beginning to go to work on their computers, while most of America is pretty much gone to bed for the night.  If anything happens here or in Europe while they are all asleep, I will be one of the first to know.  The average United States citizen watches nine hours of television a day, so they do not know anything much until it shows up on television.  I will now shower and clean up.  At my senior age of 59 years old, I do not think I should be walking downtown late at night or the early morning hours.  More hot weather for the next two days.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/16/09: 

Note: <888> 08/16/09 Sunday 11:25 A.M..  I will now send out my weekly notes.   I will then shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will probably watch some television before going to bed.  I ate half the 16 ounce jar of dry roasted peanuts.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/16/09 Sunday 10:40 A.M..  Good deal on a steam iron $33.14 with free shipping Amazon.com: Black & Decker D5500 Digital Evolution 1500-Watt Steam Iron with Ceramic Soleplate: Kitchen & Dining ,  but I never iron.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/16/09 Sunday 9:20 A.M..  I went out after the last note.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I went downtown.  There is some tree damage downtown from the storm last week.  There is a rather large limb that came off of a tree at the board of education.  Also the northern most tree in front of St. Mary's on Greenwich Avenue broke in half.  I saw a young fawn with mossy horns when I was leaving my place.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  The usual small group of morning people still seemed to be there.  I noticed in the front door of Best and Company just north of the Senior and the Arts center, there is a Judge's Foreclosure order with contact information on any inquires.  There were a few morning walkers and joggers and church goers.  I sat out at various locations.  It feels like it might be warmer than 87 degrees Fahrenheit today which is predicted.  After my walk, I drove down by the Grass Island Marina area, and there were a few fishermen there.  There was a sign on the road saying to watch out for any low hanging electrical wires, I guess if one were bringing in a boat on a trailer.  I drove back via the back way on Old Track Road.  They look like they are working on getting ready to open the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop across from the Hamilton Avenue school.  I noticed this year there are a lot of air conditioners in the windows above Starbucks, so there must be a cooler group of people working there now.  I chatted with some neighbors.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/16/09 Sunday 5:50 A.M..  Earlier yesterday morning, I ate 1/6 of a 16 ounce jar of Planter's Dry roasted peanuts with sea salt.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for an early morning walk.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/16/09 Sunday 4:30 A.M..  I copied the Weight Loss CD and the Million recipe CD.  I installed the Million Recipe CD on the primary Vista computer from the copy.  You need the CD to run the program, so I will leave it by the primary Vista computer.  The Weight Loss CD will not install on Vista, so I will install it on an XP computer later on.  I put away the laundry.  I will put the three original CDs in their packaging on the second shelf of the right hallway bookcase where the Audi manual is.

I have the lower drawer in the refrigerator full of cold sodas and beer that are two to three years old.  Last Christmas morning, when I won $10 on a scratch card, I also found the broken Dell Latitude CS laptop computer at the train station dumpster, and I was able to fix it a short time later at a considerable expense, so it was a minor Christmas improvement.  I also bought a 12 pack of Diet Coke with Lime www.coke.com for about $4 from CVS that morning, so I just put it in the refrigerator, and I should have more cold fresh beverages in case any thirsty people drop by, which they never do, since I am frequently asleep in the daytime.  They should be chilled in about 4 to 6 hours.  I also have the two year old 12 pack of Heineken and the 6 pack of German beer in the refrigerator that I bought when a friend got back from Germany a few years ago that have not been touched, and they have been continually refrigerated, so they might still be good.  I do not drink alcohol, but I keep it around for guests.  I also have some several year old or more Kennebunkport Shipyard beer that has never been refrigerated. 

I will now make and eat the same dinner as last night, but I will also put some small cubed potatoes in the vegetable mixture along, and I will make the sautéed London Broil without garlic, so it does not smell so bad to non garlic liking people.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/16/09 Sunday 2:40 A.M..  I ate and English muffin before going to bed after the last note.  I woke up a few times, and I watched television.  I finally woke up at 9 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until midnight.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have 10 minutes to go on the wash cycle.  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail.  The order for One Million of the World's Best Recipes: SoftwareOutlet for $10.95 and  RoboBargains.com: QuickStart: Personalized Weight Loss Planner for .99 and Berlitz Think and Talk Spanish at checkout for .99 and $5.95 Economy shipping for $18.88 total arrived.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/09 Saturday 10:50 A.M..  I did some minor improvements.  I have the Philips 5 disk carousel audio and video DVD player hooked up to the living room Sony television to play on the Sony television Video 1.  Thus I do not need the Daewoo DVD/VCR player in the component stack.  I moved the Daewoo unit into the bedroom, and I connected it up, and placed it to the left of the televisions on the bedroom stereo speaker at that location, so it is easier to reach than on top of the bedroom Sony television.  Thus the bedroom Sony television has both VCR and DVD.  I had to move the Sony television over a bit to the right to fit it in.  One can still adjust the bedroom thermostat by reaching to the right side of the bedroom Sony television.  I moved a picture that was blocked by the Sony television to the right side of the bed, and I moved the picture that was there to the left of the bathroom sink, and I put the picture that was there behind the bedroom door.  I have the Daewoo remote control with the other remote controls by the bed, and I programmed the Philips universal remote control by the bed for the Daewoo too on the DVD setting.  I moved the JVC videotape machine to the living room component stack where the Daewoo was, and I hooked it up.  It plays off channel 3 as does the Daewoo unit.  Thus both living room and bedroom have DVD and VCR capabilities.  I put the necessary remote controls for the living room setup in front of the Ethan Allen recliner.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed for a while or longer.  Stay Cool.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/09 Saturday 7:50 A.M..  I went out after the last note.  I cleaned the mist off my car windows with my rubber snow brush blade that I keep in the back seat of the car for such purposes in the warmer weather.  One does get mist in the morning around here in warmer weather.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a train station regular.  I noticed that the French children's shop just south of Knapp Funeral home is going out of business.  George Jensen jewelers has gone out of business.  Near T-Mobile on upper Greenwich Avenue, AT&T is moving its store from just west of the top of Greenwich Avenue to then new location by T-Mobile.  I told a Greenwich policeman about a hose leaking water at the front of the store under renovation by the Subway sandwich shop on upper Greenwich Avenue.  The message parlor above that location does women's facial's, so I do not think it is meant for men.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  My friend whose family is in the coffee business in Brazil has never shown up to see Starbucks on Greenwich Avenue, although he works for Trans Brazilian Airways.  I guess it is still too cold here for him.  I stopped by Zyn Stationary, and I played a "Beginners Luck" scratch card for a dollar, and I won a dollar for net profit loss of nothing.   I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and there were about a dozen fishermen out there trying their luck, but I did not recognize anyone.  I stopped by the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf station, and I bought $5 of self service premium gasoline at $3.199 a gallon for 1.563 gallons for 18.7 miles driving since last Saturday at odometer reading of 64151 miles for 11.964 miles per gallon driving this past week mostly in regular local traffic.  I chatted with a neighbor, when I got back home.  At least I was out early, when it was cooler this early morning.  CIO

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I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for an early morning walk, before it gets hot.   CIO

Note: <888> 08/15/09 Saturday 3:25 A.M..  I woke up at 1 A.M..  I ate a sautéed 7 ounce London Broil with my usual vegetable mixture, but instead of cubed potatoes in the steamed vegetable mixture, I used corn I cut off an ear of corn on the cob.  I threw out the garbage and the week's recycle paper.  I watered the plants.   CIO

Note: <888> 08/14/09 Friday 8:55 P.M..  Sunny and hot weather through Tuesday in the mid 80s degrees Fahrenheit.  I chatted with a relative, and it is suppose to be in the high 80 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny in Kennebunkport, Maine through this Tuesday.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go back to bed.  I guess I will go out for a walk in the morning.  I put the glass and some family pictures in the gold picture frame, and I put it on the Lazy Susan with the palm tree in the window.  CIO

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Note: <888> 08/14/09 Friday 4:40 P.M..  I woke up during the morning, and I ate a 12 ounce can of Emerald almonds.  I finally woke up at 11 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with neighbors.  I went to my 2 P.M. appointment.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  Everything is half price.  They are in the process of moving to across the street from the Hamilton Avenue school in Byram in mid September 2009.  One now makes donations at the new location.  I bought a gold 8 inch by 10 inch picture frame for $1.50 half price.  I have the glass to go in it at home.  I then went downtown, and I sat out briefly, but I did not walk, because it was too hot, and I had not had much sleep.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I returned the DVD "The Ice Storm", which I think I had seen on television before.  I chatted with the reference librarian and a local British resident.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought top round London Broil for $1.99 a pound for $6.57, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, fresh green Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.90, broccoli crowns for $1.29 a pound for $1.50, a bulb of garlic for $2.99 a pound for .60, four ears of corn for .25 each for a $1 for $14.56 total.  I then returned home.  I picked up my mail.  I put away the groceries.  CIO   

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Note: <888> 08/14/09 Friday 2:25 A.M..  Security News and Security Product Reviews - SC Magazine US

I finished the free computer and technical magazine renewals online.  I will now make and eat the same dinner as the last few nights with the last of the cold eye round of beef.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/14/09 Friday 1:00 A.M..  Happy birthday to a relative.  I had a telephone call yesterday and another from a fund raiser while I was asleep yesterday.  I was awake this past evening at 7 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with two relatives.   They shampooed the rugs in Maine.  They have hooked up the Philips squid surge protector to the library television setup.

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I also chatted with a friend the night before last.

I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor. 

I do not think it is safe to go out for a walk tonight, since there is a fugitive on the lose in downtown Greenwich Suspect eludes Stamford, Greenwich police after drug bust goes awry - Greenwich Time . 

I read the recent computer periodical literature.  I threw out the recent magazines that I have read.  I saved the Maximum PC and McGraw Hill construction magazines.  The McGraw Hill construction magazines have articles about the new World Trade Center complex and rebuilding the old Hudson River railroad bridge in Poughkeepsie, New York into a pedestrian bridge. 

I have eight free computer magazines to renew online.  I have a 2 P.M. appointment today.   CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/09 Thursday 6:20 A.M..  I finished reading the last two issues of MaximumPC.  I ate a 9.25 ounce can of Planters' Cashew nuts bits and pieces with watered down passion punch.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  High today of 76 degrees Fahrenheit with showers.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/13/09 Thursday 4:35 A.M..  I did some minor maintenance on my T-Mobile wireless router.  I am reading one of the last two issues of Maximum PC that I will get.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/13/09 Thursday 12:20 A.M..  Happy Birthday to two different friends.  I had a telephone call at 10 A.M. this morning from a relative, and I had two computer magazine telephone calls.  I finally woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage,  and I picked up the mail.  I read the Taft School alumni magazine and one and a half back issues of www.forbes.com .  I chatted with a relative.  I ate the same dinner as last night without the apple pie.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/12/09 Wednesday 7:30 A.M..  Of course if you ever go to Norway, there is a 15 year jail sentence for drinking alcohol and driving a car, which is why so many of them use cruise ships to have a drink.  I ate a ham and Swiss cheese sandwich on a bulky roll with 1/4th of a 6.2 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.

Note: <888> 08/12/09 Wednesday 6:25 A.M..  It is about that trip to Norway in late February 1983, when I first arrived there in Oslo, there was six feet of snow on the ground, but by the time I left after St. Patrick's Day, it had all melted.  I had originally planned to go to Stockholm, Sweden, since S.A.S. advertised the week that I left in the New York Times, a round trip to Stockholm and a weeks stay at the S.A.S. hotel there for $679.  I left a relative's house in Norwalk, Connecticut after a week's stay at the Colony Hotel in New Haven, Connecticut, and when I arrived via the Connecticut limousine service at the S.A.S. counter at J.F.K. airport, I asked for the round trip package, and they sold it to me for about $700 after taxes.  I had lots of winter clothes, since I had been living up north including the Survivolon parka that I had just bought at the Norwalk factory store for $250.  However, the plane did not land at the Stockholm, but at a military airport outside of Oslo, Norway.  I chatted with one of the pilots during the trip and pretty much everyone was having a good time.  We flew over trees most of the way from what I could tell.  When they took us to the S.A.S. hotel in Oslo, Norway, they told me I only had a one way trip to Stockholm with no hotel.  I stayed at the Y.M.C.A. across the street from the S.A.S. hotel, and I used the S.A.S. hotel gymnasium every day.  I chatted with two people that looked like Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner, and I asked them what we were suppose to talk about, and they said talk about a faster hockey team.  I was evicted from the Y.M.C.A. in Oslo, Norway for not paying my bill after a few days, so I walked around downtown Oslo and the Palace grounds all night in the cold.  Finally in the early morning hours, I found a hotel behind the palace called the West Hotel, and the man at the desk looked like my Uncle Art, so I gave him my passport, and he gave me a room.  I stayed there a little over a week, and I did not eat any food from the refrigerator bar, because it was suppose to be expensive, and I did not eat the buffet breakfast which was included in the room price, because I did not know that, and I did not have much money.  I ate Swedish WASA crisps that I bought at a local grocery store along with some juice that I bought.  A couple of times in the small lobby of the West Hotel, I saw two men that looked like Ronald Reagan and Casper Wineberger.  I also chatted with somebody in the small bar discotecque that looked like Rhone Dietrin.  I did have a Ringness beer at the bar beneath old church in downtown Oslo where a lot of people went.  I left the window open all of the time in my hotel room for fresh air.  I used the heated bathroom floor to dry my clothes that I washed, since the Y.M.C.A. had kept my luggage.  Finally after a week or so, somebody from the U.S.A. embassy drove me over there, and I sat there with a bunch of elderly ladies knitting sweaters in some sort of business office.  They finally got back to me, and said my father was paying the hotel and Y.M.C.A. bills, and they retrieved my luggage which was being held at the Y.M.C.A., and they drove me to the Civilian airport, and they gave me a ticket back to J.F.K. with a change of planes in Copenhagen, Denmark and a hundred dollars.  While in the Copenhagen airport, I bought two cartons of Duty Free Prince cigarettes for about $20 a carton.  We did get to fly back from Copenhagen in what looked to be a brand new Boeing 747 to J.F.K..  I also once went to the bar at the S.A.S. hotel in Olso, and they were flying the Texas flag higher than the U.S.A. and Norwegians flags in between them.  I ordered a Vodka and tonic.  I also went to a concert in the Peace Hall in downtown Oslo.  I visited the new City Hall and the oldest church.  I saw the park with all of the statues, and I also rang the bell at the Russian embassy which was next to the park in a French chateau, but nobody answered.  There is nice view from the park of the ski jump downtown.  I walked around the Norwegian Palace grounds lots of times.  I saw King Olaf lots of times.  There were a lot off teenagers hanging out in the park by the green houses smoking marijuana at night.  I was told by one of the Palace Guards in the Norwegian Navy, when they run out of Virginia tobacco, they smoke rope which I guess is made from hemp from India.  I think I also had a drink at the Bristol hotel which had a small casino.  I recall going to Barclay's Travel to try to get some money on my traveler's checks, but they were never able to do anything.  My father told me, he paid about $1,000 for the hotel bills and trip back from Oslo.  Thus I figure S.A.S. messed up, and they still owe me money on the trip along with 26 years interest.  I do know Rhone Dietrin who I met in the Lanzarote, and he lived at the end of the runway in Lanzerote with his mother and her girl friend.  Rhone's father was a pilot with S.A.S., but he never surfaced anywhere on the internet.  I guess he is still in Lanzarote where Fred Olsen of Olsen Travel sends a lot of people every year.  I sometimes think Fred Von Mierers might be Fred Olsen or Freddie Heineken living under an alias.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/09 Wednesday 5:25 A.M..  As I recall, when I was homeless in Manhattan for the two 1 week periods in December 1983, I walked all over the city all day, and I went to late night pubs until they closed at 4 A.M. hanging out.  I did not recognize anyone I knew.  Julie Bolton had moved out of Manhattan to the garage apartment I built in Plandome Manor, Long Island, and since her mother Vivian West was ill, I did not want to bother John or Julie Bolton.  I would sleep in the early morning hours at the East Side Airline Terminal which was then opened 24 hours.  I kept my luggage in one of the airline terminal lockers that only took Susan B. Anthony dollars.  I would clean up for free at the Tennis Club upstairs that I would walk into and use their showers and change into fresh clothes.  Since the front windows of the East Side airline terminal had a Wolf Peugeot automobile dealership, I saw quite a bit of their showroom and the power station across the street.  I learn that the power station across the street supplied the entire steam grid for midtown Manhattan, and there were underground railroad tracks from across the Hudson River through Penn Station to the east side power station to supply it with coal.  I think both the East Side airline terminal and the power station have been torn down.  I did not bother Fred Von Mierers, since if he had still lived at 420 East 49th street, I had learned to avoid him, because he tended to cause to many drastic changes in one's life.  Also, on the second visit to the Greenwich Hospital in December 1983 during that week, the gave me a complete $7,000 medical physical with CAT scans and all sorts of other tests that Medicaid paid for, and they told me I was legally disabled with a "Protein Metabolic Disorder" thus when I was discharged the second time from the Greenwich Hospital, my social worker had found me the room at 100 Milbank Avenue where I first lived, when I returned to Greenwich.  Other than possibly driving through town on the way to New Canaan back and forth from Manhattan and Long Island, I think the only time I spent much time in Greenwich, Connecticut was the day Julie Bolton asked me to leave the apartment in Manhattan, and I spent the night at the George Washington Hotel in lower midtown Manhattan, and then I came out to Greenwich on the train, and I left my luggage at the Y.M.C.A., and I spent the day reading in the Greenwich Library, and when I called my relative in New Canaan, I was told Ronald Reagan had been shot and nobody knew what was going on.  I took a taxi cab to Westchester Country airport, and from there I caught a Van to J.F.K. airport, and since I had a Pan AM Clipper Club lounge card, I spent that evening playing a computer chess game by myself at the Clipper Club, and when I called up Julie Bolton, she said I better come back to the apartment in Manhattan.  I had figured in case a nuclear war broke out, it would be safer to be near an airport.  Thus I think until I finally left Julie's apartment in February 1982, when I stayed with a friend for a week above the Episcopal Church on East 52nd Street when it was minus 25 degrees Fahrenheit in Manhattan.   Julie gave me airfare to fly down to Key West, Florida, but it was so busy down there, there was no place for me to stay.  After staying a couple of weeks there with friends, I spent some time being held on a false charge, and I was sent back up north never to return there.  The following winter after building the garage apartment, I went to Oslo, Norway only to spend a week in J.F.K airport homeless when I returned in March 1983 only to go back up to Nantucket.  It is my viewpoint, if the Norwegians had let me live there, I would have a better life, and I might have made it over to Scotland or England, where they are suppose to speak English, but you need money to go there.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/12/09 Wednesday 4:50 A.M..  As I recall, when I came off Nantucket in late November 1983 flying from Hyannisport, Massachusetts with Jackie Onassis on Provincetown Boston airlines to LaGuardia, I then caught the Amtrak from Grand Central station to Toronto for a two week visit at which time I stayed in the Anglican seminary at the University of Toronto, and I explored the city.  When I came back down to Manhattan, I was homeless for two 2 week periods in Manhattan with two side trips to the Greenwich Hospital for my feet and ankles to recover.  When the train coming down from Toronto stopped in Buffalo, New York, I called up George Cary, and I chatted with his father Charlie Cary, and he gave me George's telephone number out in Sands Point, Long Island, but when I was homeless in Manhattan, I did not think about calling up George or Fred Von Mierers http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm , whom had places, since I became disoriented walking around Toronto and Manhattan after a quiet peaceful life in Nantucket.  I did make a side trip that October 1983 to Vero Beach, Bayonet Point, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida only to return back to Nantucket in early November 1983.  As I recall I lived at 100 Milbank Avenue from about a week before Christmas 1983 to mid April 1984, when I moved to a room in a second floor apartment at Grigg Street and Greenwich Avenue on the northwest corner.  Around mid June 1984, I moved to 700 Steamboat Road, but it might have been the first of June or July 1984, since rents usually begin at the first of the month.  In the period of walking downtown at night in Greenwich, Connecticut until I got the 1976 yellow Volkswagen Dasher wagon around October 1986, I frequently saw lots of black SAAB sedans driving around.  There seemed to be dozens of them downtown.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/12/09 Wednesday 3:40 A.M..  There are a few connections with my computer activity and astronomy.  When I first got a personal computer, I bought a 28,800 baud internal card telephone modem about 20 years ago for $159 at the White Plains, New York auditorium computer show.  There was a German professor there that snickered at me.  I use it to telephone computer BBS bulletin boards many of which were long distance phone calls, and I gradually ran up a $850 long distance telephone bill that I eventually defaulted on, and I had to go without telephone service for two or more years.  I then used the pay phone that was in the lobby of my building, and I discovered long distance telephone calls across the border in Port Chester, New York were only 35 cents to Long Island where I had two friends, so I frequently used the pay phones at Cumberland Farms just across the border, and when the telephone company took them out because of suspected drug activity, I started using the pay phone in the lobby of the Port Chester, New York police station.  However, I was not able to be online through the telephone modem for that period.  The telephone company which I think at the time was New York Telephone, so I eventually had to pay it off to get my phone service back.  I did call up a local telephone number a lot in Old Greenwich for Jimmy Bolster's computer BBS on astronomy that had lots of other downloadable files. 

Note: <888> 08/12/09 Wednesday 2:55 A.M..  I threw out the garbage.  I noticed there is bright star or planet in the southern sky.  I thought it might be moving like it might be the Space Shuttle, but on closer observation it looks more like a planet or star.  It is brighter than the other stars, so it is probably a planet.  I picked up my mail.  I received my The Taft School alumni magazine.  There are hundreds of Taft alumni in their area, so there is no need to go all of the way up to Watertown, Connecticut to network with the younger generation.  Stillman Rockefeller was the oldest alumnus until he passed away a couple of years ago.  I transferred, sorted out and removed some of the items in my old brown wallet to my new cordovan Perry Ellis wallet that a relative bought for $12.99 and tax for me at T.J. Maxx in Biddeford, Maine, when I was visiting Kennebunkport this past June 2009.  I had another Visa Rebate card for $13 that I do not think I ever used that expired in December 2009.  I also took out my Food Emporium card, and a few other outdated items, so I now have a neater thinner wallet, but currently I only have three one dollar bills in it.  CIO

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Note: <888> 08/12/09 Wednesday 1:05 A.M..  I refilled the Glade Plug-in refill in the kitchen with a 60% mixture of English Leather cologne and 40% of 70% isopropyl alcohol.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/09 Tuesday 10:40 A.M..  I ate a bowl of Cheez-its two nights ago, and I woke up this morning, and I ate two bowls.  I finally work up at 5 P.M. this evening.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I took the Ezonics web cam off the Northgate Syntax computer, and I put the Creative Vibra web cam on it, and I installed the drivers for it on both partitions.  It works just fine.  I installed the Windows Updates for XP, Vista and Windows 7 and also the updates for Ubuntu on all nine computers http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm and the different operating system partitions, so thus I installed the updates on 16 different operating system partitions.  I also put DTV on four Windows 7 partitions, and I installed its updates.  I chatted briefly with a relative.  I will now eat the same dinner as last night.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/11/09 Tuesday 4:25 A.M..  I read part of an old issue of www.forbes.com that I had not read.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed.  Cloudy and rain today with a high of 87 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/09 Tuesday 3:25 A.M..  I put the Audi CDs and duplicates in a large yellow envelope that I placed on the second shelf of the right hallway bookcase.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/11/09 Tuesday 3:05 A.M..  The Fat Lady Sings For Microsoft - Forbes.com

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Note: <888> 08/11/09 Tuesday 1:35 A.M..  With dinner, I also had a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and lemon juice and a 1/5th piece of apple pie.  I burned a copy of the good Audi Data DVD, and I installed it on the Epox computer with the Audi manual program.  The replacement data DVD works just fine.  I am now installing the Audi manual program and data on the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer.  I started listening to some vintage Beatles music, but I had the new headphones on, but I did not know the apartment speakers were also going for about 10 minutes, so I quickly turned them off.  I hope I did not disturb my neighbors at this hour of the morning.  The wireless headphones also have an on and off switch that I have to remember to turn off, when I put them back in the charging cradle.  I am not sure if I have enough room to install the Audi manual program and data on the second Dell Latitude CS laptop computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/10/09 Monday 10:20 P.M..  I woke up at 4 P.M. this afternoon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes. 

The order with tracking of UPS: Tracking Information on the order for two pairs of L.L.Bean: union suit or Two-Layer Union Suit, Men's in tall XX-Large in Red for $54 each with free shipping with promotion coupon of "3012422" and $6.48 tax for $114.48 total arrived.  I put the red union suits on the top shelf of the left living room closet to have available for this winter.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with a relative.  I went out, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I played a Aces High scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I found a Roosevelt dime on the sidewalk after I left, so it was a net loss of 90 cents.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  At around Saks Fifth Avenue, I ran into another regular walker who complained about the lack of time to walk with all of the rain this summer.  I walked with the other walker back down Greenwich Avenue to where he lived.  I then walked upper Greenwich Avenue stopping by briefly at CVS.  I finished my walk.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with the reference librarian, and I told the security guard the lights were not on in the parking lot.  They turned the lights on in the parking lot.  There was a lot of lightning to the north of the library.  I checked out the DVD movie "The Ice Storm".  I was living in New Canaan when that ice storm happened, and I drove out from New York City that early morning with a Danish visitor that looked like George Cary's twin, and he had a glass of milk, and when I drove him back in on I-95 to Manhattan, there were about 200 cars on their roofs and other positions from the ice storm.  I was driving the green 1978 Volkswagen Dasher with front wheel drive, so it was good on hazardous roads.  I then returned home.  I picked up the mail.  The replacement CDs for the Audi service manual on CDs arrived.  I chatted with relatives three times.  They are putting the Philips electrical squid with surge protection on the TV setup in the library in Maine.  They also raked the gravel out of the new grass seed which apparently is taking its time to come up.  They might put some more grass seed in after they have the deck power washed and treated again.  I put my spare Philips electrical squid on the television setup in the bedroom, so it now has surge protection like all of the other electrical items in the apartment except the kitchen items.  I have to bring up a spare power strip in September for the bunk room computer setup in Maine.

I will now eat the same dinner as last night.  We had a bit of the electrical storm, and the lights blinked briefly.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/10/09 Monday 5:20 A.M..  I read two old issues of www.time.com magazine.  I finished eating through out the night the other half of the opened 12 ounce container of almonds.

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

Note: <888> 08/10/09 Monday 2:15 A.M..  I made up a fresh batch of passion punch.  I will now do some reading.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/10/09 Monday 1:00 A.M..  BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China evacuates as storm strikes

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Freak wave 'hot spots' identified

I will now eat the same dinner as last night, but the two 7/16th inch slices of beef will be cold with horseradish and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce on them.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/10/09 Monday 12:15 A.M..  I put away the laundry.  I am washing the bath mat, shower curtain liner, and shower curtain in detergent and bleach, and it should be done in 15 minutes.  One does not dry them in the dryer, because they would melt.  I am not going out tonight for a walk, because it is raining.  I will just read some of the periodical literature that I have.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/09/09 Sunday 11:15 P.M..  Tomorrow there is suppose to be a high of 93 degrees Fahrenheit and humid, so one should probably turn down one's air conditioners to have it cool inside tonight, before it gets hot tomorrow.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/09/09 Sunday 10:55 P.M..  I ate a 1/5th piece of apple pie after the last note.  I also woke up and ate half of 12 ounce can of almonds.  I woke up again at 1:30 P.M., when a relative called that there was an article in the www.nytimes.com about the Michael Scott 1992 Buick Roadmaster Station Wagon that I use to own.  I went back to bed until 5 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went to back to bed until 8 P.M..  I ate a 1/5th piece of apple pie with watered down passion punch.  I chatted with a relative.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I put clean linens on my bed.  I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have 25 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I watered the plants.  I was told that the typhoon in Taipei caused 80 inches of rain in two days.  Two of my relatives are reading Rescuing Da Vinci / By Robert M. Edsel - About The Book .  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/09/09: 

Note: <888> 08/09/09 Sunday 3:25 A.M..  I have the older version of this Brita Ultramax Water Dispensers: Larger Capacity Water Filters For The Family | Brita in my refrigerator which I fill up regularly.  It has been about two years since I replaced the filter, so I put in my new spare filter.

Note: <888> 08/09/09 Sunday 2:25 A.M..  I renewed my subscription to www.forbes.com magazine early for another year at Forbes: Amazon.com: Magazines with a $10 discount with the coupon code "MAGSAVER" for $19.99 total.  To renew a subscription you have to make sure, you use the exact same address as your current subscription.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/09/09 Sunday 12:10 A.M..  I'm cooking the eye round the way that I cook it.  It will be ready in 20 minutes.  I will eat two half inch thick slices with my usual vegetable mixture which recently has included asparagus.  I notice downtown in the past week, they now have another Chase Bank where the WAMU bank used to be just south of the Greenwich Post Office on Greenwich Avenue.  It where the Korean vegetable stand use to be.   CIO 

Note: <888> 08/08/09 Saturday 11:10 P.M..  I watched television until 4 A.M. this morning, and I ate a few ounces of Cheez-its.  I went to bed until noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I watched some www.foxnews.com .  I went to back to bed until 5 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a friend.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich with 1/4th of a 6.2 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 a regular walker.  At Zen stationary, I played a Quick Silver II scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I browsed CVS.  I chatted with a relative on my wireless phone.  The Best and Company store just north of the Senior and the Arts center has a "For Lease" sign above its store window.  I am not sure if it is for the store or the building.  It was a moderately active night this evening.  After my walk, I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf station, and I bought $17.01 of self service premium gasoline at $3.199 a gallon for 5.318 gallons 60.7 miles driving since the Tuesday on July 28, 2009, when I filled up on returning from Kennebunkport, Maine for 11.414 miles per gallon driving mostly locally in town at odometer reading of 64,132 miles.  I cleaned the outside windows, and I checked the tire pressure all around for 32 PSI.  I next went to the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 8 pack of Stop and Shop hot dog buns for $1.67, a half gallon of Florida Natural orange juice for $3, three 12 ounce cans of Emerald dry roasted almonds for $10 all, a 10 ounce bottle of Lea and Perrins regular Worcestershire sauce for $3.39, buy one get one free of Nathan's 16 ounce beef franks for $5.29 both, and fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.84 for $25.19 total.  I then returned home.  I picked up my mail.  I put away my groceries.  I was told by a relative that the grass seed that I planted in Kennebunkport, Maine is not coming up too well, so if we are lucky, it might take another week to come up.  Hopefully it was not all washed away by the heavy rainstorm the day after I planted the grass seed.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/08/09 Saturday 2:30 A.M..  I ate a 1/5th piece of apple pie with some watered down passion punch.

Note: <888> 08/08/09 Saturday 12:50 A.M..  I chatted with a relative.  Happy Birthday to a relative.

Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for two pairs of L.L.Bean: union suit or Two-Layer Union Suit, Men's in tall XX-Large in Red for $54 each with free shipping with promotion coupon of "3012422" and $6.48 tax for $114.48 total.

The printed version of the www.greenwichtime.com has a headline about a sailboat race coming to Greenwich that is not in the internet version.  However, it might be an old newspaper in the newspaper box downtown, since frequently they do not put new newspapers in the newspaper boxes downtown anymore.  Yesterday and today, I did see two men wearing Bermuda shorts, so possibly we have visitors from Bermuda here.

This time of year, you have to look at

http://mikelouisscott.com/weather.htm

http://geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm

so possibly though with the colder weather up north this summer, there will not be much of a hurricane season down south, but I have been told it is hotter than normal down there, so possibly the Atlantic waters are warm enough to generate hurricane weather.  Of course some people down south make so much money off tourists in the winter, they can afford to come up north in the summer to see how the other half of the country lives.

Five Cash-Rich Companies - Forbes.com .

Beware of Bears Elk Mountain Retreats for sale .

I received email, they are resending the Audi Service CD, so I will be able to do a correct installation soon.

This is probably a good deal without a tuner, but I can not afford it Sony SLV-D380P DVD/VCR Combo $64.95 free shipping new with factory warranty .

This five year old model refurbished is available for $33.99 with free shipping Sony DVP-NS575P DVD Player Progressive Scan Free Ship - eBay (item 170363069341 end time Aug-22-09 12:04:58 PDT) .

However, I do not really need a DVD player for the bedroom, and I have an older almost new Daewoo DVD/VCR in the living room.

There is this refurbished item too PHILIPS PROGRESSIVE SCAN DVD CD MP3 DVP3962/37 PLAYER - eBay (item 370193976183 end time Aug-25-09 10:50:31 PDT) for $42.50 with free shipping which is a more current item.

It says here it is available at Walmart 680 Connecticut Avenue new in Norwalk for $42 new in stock Walmart.com: Philips Progressive Scan DVD Player w/ 1080i Upconversion, DVP3962/37: DVD & Blu-ray Players .

This is also available new Walmart.com: Sony DVD Player w/ Progressive Scan, DVP-SR200P/B: DVD & Blu-ray Players $39.95.

Thus if I ever decide I really need a DVD player for the bedroom, I might go up to one of the two Walmarts in Norwalk, and get one for around $40.

Note: <888> 08/07/09 Friday 6:45 P.M..  I woke up at 9:30 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I chatted with a relative.  I surfed the internet.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I waited for the mail to arrive.  It arrived about 2:15 P.M..  I went out downtown, and I went by the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue.  I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Havemayer Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store.  I stopped by CVS.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a reference librarian.  I then went by the A&P Fresh, and I 36 ounce bag of Eight O'clock Hazelnut coffee beans for $14.99, a 24 ounce Apple crumb pie for $3.50, a Angus eye round of beef for $3.99 a pound for $12.93 and fresh asparagus for $2.50 a pound for $2.42 for $33.90 total.  I then returned home, and I picked up my mail.  I put away the groceries.  I chatted with a relative.  In the mail, I got a $19 Staples Visa rebate card, so the case of Hammermill paper, I bought in July 2009, only cost $19.  I will now make and eat the same dinner as last night.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/07/09 Friday 1:50 A.M..  I watched some television.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good night.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/07/09 Friday 12:20 A.M..  I chatted with a friend about the price of tea in China.  I think McDonalds on West Putnam Avenue closes at midnight, but I think the drive up window at Wendy's on West Putnam Avenue is opened until 2 A.M. for night owls.  Of course the Colonial Diner on East Putnam Avenue across from the Y.M.C.A. is opened 24 hours a day seven days a week, but I do not think you can get scrambled eggs, bacon, and English muffin and coffee there anymore for $2, it is probably more like $8.  I was told in downtown Greenwich, Connecticut a hard drink now costs $7 and a beer costs $5 for those of you whom can still afford to drink liquor, which not many people can afford to do anymore.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/06/09 Thursday 11:35 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  I went downtown, and the men's bathroom was busy for a long time at Starbucks.  I tried to use the bathroom next door at the Senior and the Arts center, but the Senior and the Arts center was closed at 8:30 P.M..  I drove up to CVS, and I had to wait for three people to use the bathroom there.  I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue, and I chatted with a regular.  I then returned home at 10 P.M., because Starbucks was closed, and there was not bathroom available, and I had a tired spell.  I could have used the bathroom at Thataways on lower Greenwich Avenue which is opened until 2 P.M., but since I was a bit tired, I returned home.  I ate a 9.25 ounce can of Planters' bits and pieces cashew nuts along with watered down passion punch.

Note: <888> 08/06/09 Thursday 8:20 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I will now go out for a walk.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/06/09 Thursday 7:20 P.M..  I am making and will eat the same dinner as last night in 20 minutes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/06/09 Thursday 4:35 P.M..  Just in case they run out like last fall, I ordered two pairs of L.L.Bean: union suit or Two-Layer Union Suit, Men's in tall XX-Large in Red for $54 each with free shipping with promotion coupon of "3012422" and $6.48 tax for $114.48 total.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/06/09 Thursday 4:10 P.M..  I watched television until 4:30 A.M. mostly a travel program about Aspen, Colorado which looks expensive.  I then went to bed.  I woke up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I picked up the mail.  The rent statement from the Greenwich Housing Authority still has not arrived yet.

I called up California about an auto part for a neighbor, but it is not available.

My www.cl-p.com electricity bill for the month of July 2009, when I was gone for 10 days with everything turned off including the hot water except the refrigerator was $177.38.

That is for a period of 27 days with usage of 913 kWh or 33.81 kWh a day with an average temperature of 71.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

My electricity bill for July 2008, when I was gone two weeks with the hot water and refrigerator turned on was $135.93 for 30 days or 683 kWh or 22.77 kWh a day with an average temperature of 76.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

Thus July  2009 is running 4.6 degree Fahrenheit cooler that last year, which possibly means a colder winter coming up this winter.

Since I live in a building heated by electric heat in the winter which I do not use to save money, I would recommend buying the good heavy wool two layer union suit L.L.Bean: union suit which I have two pairs of, but since I usually wear two pairs to stay warm with one lighter cheaper one, I would buy two more to have to stay warmer this winter, if I could afford it.  I have to let the extra pair of two to hang dry after washing them every week, which is why I need two sets.  I do not put them in the dryer, although they are suppose to shrink proof.

I am listening to CD music with the wireless headphones.  I am currently listening to Beethoven's Ninth.   CIO

Note: <888> 08/06/09 Thursday 2:45 A.M..  Windows 7 Free to Select Beta Testers -- Redmond Channel Partner

Note: <888> 08/06/09 Thursday 12:35 A.M..  If one were really into good cooking and could afford it, you could order for PC machines McAfee Virusscan 2009 for .99 and QuickStart: Low-Carb Food Label Analyzer for .99, MasterCook Deluxe 8.0 for $7.95, Healthy Living and Just Healthy Recipes for $5, QuickStart: Low-Carb Personalized Diet Helper for $2.99 Let's Get Cooking for $1.99 for $19.91 and $3.99 shipping for $23.90

Note: <888> 08/05/09 Wednesday 11:10 P.M..  I went downtown, and I stopped by CVS.  I picked up two prescriptions.  I bought two 32 ounce Lysol 4 in 1 spray cleaners for $3 each and .36 tax for $6.36 total.  I then went further downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by Zen stationary, and I bought a Fast Cash scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I noticed there was some electrical repair work going on at the bottom of Greenwich Avenue at Railroad Avenue.  I stopped by the Senior and the Arts center, and I used the bathroom.  I chatted with a relative on my wireless telephone.  I stopped by CVS again, and I bought a Sharpie four different colors high lighter for .99 and .06 tax for a $1.05.  I chatted with somebody about Greenwich from Largemount, New York.  I finished my walk, and I sat out for a while, and then I returned home.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/05/09 Wednesday 6:55 P.M..  I went outside, and I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I made and ate my regular breaded boneless breast of chicken dinner with my usual vegetable mixture with Smart Balance and olive oil and a glass of watered down passion punch and a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I will now go out for a possible walk and other errands.  I also watched the www.abcnews.com evening news.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/05/09 Wednesday 5:20 P.M..  For Big Buck Government people on the run Federal Government Computers - Official Toughbook Federal Computers .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/05/09 Wednesday 5:15 P.M..  I watched a bit of a movie last night after the last note.  I ate about 20% of a 16 ounce jar of Planters' dry roasted peanuts.  I went to bed at 1:30 A.M..  I woke up at 8:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until noon.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I threw out some garbage.

The order for Rs120 / Rs-120 926 MHz Wireless RF Headphones, Charging Cradle, bstock w/ Warran DAKmart for $29.98 and $12.89 shipping for $42.87 total arrived.  The two metal hydride AAA batteries go underneath one of the ear piece covers.  I took off the old wireless Emerson headphones and put them underneath the sideboard in the bedroom.  I connected up the new headphones.  They work just fine.  The headphones have a on and off button, a tuning button, and a volume button.  They are rechargeable with the AAA metal hydride batteries from the base unit.  The Base unit comes with RCA plugs, and a small 1/8th jack adapter and the larger old headphone adapter.   They work just fine.  I have to let them fully charge up.  I am also charging up two spare pairs of AAA metal hydride batteries to have in reserve.  They will be fully charged at 2 A.M..  I read the back issues of the computer periodical magazines, and I then threw them out.  I have six different ones that I have to renew for free.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I picked up my mail earlier.  There might be thunderstorms this evening.  CIO     

Note: <888> 08/04/09 Tuesday 11:50 P.M..  Isolated thunder showers tomorrow afternoon and a high of 88 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/04/09 Tuesday 11:15 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  The Greenwich Housing Authority heavy item remover has already put the Panasonic television in the back of his truck.  I went by Radio Shack in Cos Cob.  I bought a RadioShack Gold Series Phono-to-Phono Audio Coupler - RadioShack.com for $4.69, two item number 15-3011 RadioShack goldseries 6 foot mono audio cables as clearance items for $2.77 each, and a 15-3012 12 foot mono audio cable as a clearance item for $1.47 and .70 tax for $12.40 total. I then tried to by some nuts at CVS at the Cos Cob CVS, but they do not take food stamps there yet like the store on Greenwich Avenue.  They will soon.  I then went to the CVS store on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought four 9.25 ounce cans of Planters' cashew nuts bits and pieces for buy one get one free for $5.49 two or $10.98 total.  I then sat out briefly downtown.  It was a little busier this evening.  I then went to the Stop and Shop, and I bought a six pack of Bulkie rolls with seeds for $3.19, sliced deli Stop and Shop honey cured ham for $4.99 a pound for $7.09, sliced Alpine Lace Swiss cheese for $5.99 a pound for $6.02, buy one get one free of small packages of Purdue Boneless breasts of chicken for $4.99 a pound for $10.93 the more expensive package and $10.38 the free one, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, a 3 pound bag of yellow onions for $2.49, a bag of baby red potatoes for $1.99 a pound for $2.65, broccoli crowns for .99 a pound for $1.32, and a bulb of garlic for $2.99 a pound for .46 for $37.90 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  I had brought up the mail earlier.

I then removed the 25 foot double audio cable from the Cable box and the Dazzle USB device by the FIC server.  I removed the audio and video cables that were connected to the Orion television audio and video out connectors from the rear of the Sony television in the bedroom.  I had another 20 foot double audio cable, and I used that to run from the Cable box rear through the false ceiling between the living room and the bedroom to the Sony television in the bedroom, and I used the 12 foot audio video cable to connect up the video from the Cable box rear to the bedroom Sony television.  Thus when the bedroom Sony television is turned to Video 1 which one does with the Input button on the Philips Universal remote control, one changes from the lower cable channels without the cable box to the cable box video on the bedroom Sony television.  I put the extra audio and video cables underneath the bed, and the coupler in the top left desk drawer in the living room.  I put the USB dazzle device on the sideboard in the bedroom.  I chatted with a relative.

I ate two hot dogs with two buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 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> 08/04/09 Tuesday 7:00 P.M..  I woke up at 8:30 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative twice. 

It is interesting in the recent recession Chase Morgan www.chase.com and Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs seem to doing better than other financial firms.  It is also interesting a lot of the Obama employees are Goldman Sachs personnel.  What is even more interesting is that Goldman Sachs Board of Directors James A. Johnson is also on The Trilateral Commission Trilateral Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia which was started by David Rockefeller and included Paul Volcker as a founding member.  Thus it would seem that with Jay Rockefeller being a senior heir of the Rockefeller family and a democrat, he switched the Rockefeller republican politics to the democrat party.  Also Goldman Sachs did the Initial Public Offering or IPO for Microsoft.

Note: <888> 08/04/09 Tuesday 12:05 A.M..  I made a three egg omelet with processed slices of cheese and grated and parmesan and Romano cheese and six strips of fried bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance and watered down passion punch.  I watched some television.  The audio seems to be working fine on the bedroom Panasonic television for now.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Sunny tomorrow with a high of 86 degrees Fahrenheit.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 8:55 P.M..  Before I took a nap,  I ate two hot dogs with two buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I just cleaned the Ionic Pro air purifier.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 8:30 P.M..  I watered the plants.  I went outside, and I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.  I noticed today, there is a lot more jet traffic at nearby Westchester County airport than we have had recently.  I took a nap on the sofa.  The order from www.ordersmokesdirect.com for 7 cartons of King Mountain Ultra Lights 100s arrived.  I napped until 7 P.M..  I threw out the weekly garbage and the periodical literature.  I picked up my mail.  I chatted with a relative.  The relative received the memoir.  I turned off the Panasonic television in the bedroom, so hopefully the sound on it will continue to run now after having left it run for a while.  One neighbor reported that somebody tried to Jimmy his front door lock with a screw driver, so we have to stay more vigilant here.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 3:30 P.M..  I woke up at 6:30 A.M. this morning, when a friend that was visiting Manhattan called up.  I went back to bed until 10 A.M..  I faxed a newspaper article to a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  The audio on the large Panasonic television in the bedroom has been cutting off and on occasionally for the last two days.  I reset its setup memory, and I set its audio to Auto from Speech, and after a short period the sound started working again.  I am leaving it run for a while, so it might set it permanently in memory and not cause any problems anymore.  The tuner on it still does not work, but it plays just fine through the JVC videotape machine connected to it with RCA cables.  I put four new AA alkaline batteries in the bedroom front door bell, so it now works just fine.  I had put four new ones in on Saturday, but they were from a set of batteries that I bought at CVS a year and half ago, so they were worn out.  I am just enjoying a cool apartment on a hot day outside.

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 3:40 A.M..  I changed the calendars in the apartment to August 2009 yesterday.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 3:05 A.M..  Speaking of broadcasting, there use to be a monument at the North Street and Clapboard Ridge road intersection commemorating the first trans Atlantic broadcast which I think was in the early 1920s, and one of the names on it was Cronkite whom I do not know if it were a relative of Walter Cronkite or not.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 2:30 A.M..  I put two new AA alkaline batteries in the primary Vista computer wireless mouse.

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 2:05 A.M..  I made and ate the same dinner as last night.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 12:20 A.M..  I went out after the note.  I went downtown.  I stopped by the Stop and Shop at 10 P.M. closing on Sunday nights, and I bought Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $2.36.  There was a channel 41 Las Notias satellite TV truck at the top of Greenwich Avenue, and there was a Channel 8 and two www.nbc.com satellite trucks across from Starbucks next to the Greenwich Police station.  As far as I can tell, there was not too much happening downtown.  While sitting across the street from the north side of the Greenwich train station, and burgundy car full of college students from Daytona, Florida asked me how to get to Danbury, Connecticut.  I told them to take I-95 East or North to Route 7 North to Danbury.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I chatted with a Starbucks regular.  The are remodeling the front of the Subway sandwich shop on upper Greenwich Avenue.  That location gets a lot of office workers at lunch time.  Not much happening as far as I could tell.  I think Connecticut still has blue laws where they can now serve alcohol after 11 P.M. on Sunday nights, so it was not too busy at the pubs.  A lot of people seem to like watching sports on television.  I guess they can not afford televisions at home.  After my walk I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  There were no fishermen down there, and just two cars were parked down there.  The Delamar hotel The Delamar on Greenwich Harbor is no longer flying the Canadian flag, so I guess the Canadians went north for the summer.  I circles back through town to see the television satellite trucks shutting down for the night.  I then returned back to my apartment.  I turned on the front door outside light, which was not turned on.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/02/09 Sunday 9:45 P.M..  I woke up at 11:30 A.M. this morning.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 5 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I ate three hot dogs with two buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I chatted with some neighbors, and I did two loads of laundry.  I put away the laundry.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for an evening stroll.  CIO     

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/01/09: 

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 11:35 P.M..  I ate 60% of a 10.7 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.  I watched a program about a plot to kill Hitler.  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 night.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 10:00 P.M..  Well, it costs money to go downtown and exercise walk and observe the general pulse of the town around Greenwich, Connecticut.  Of course there are some people whom live downtown, whom might think about keeping an eye on their own neighborhood.  I am perfectly comfortable at home, although I could use the exercise.  Of course the downtown area of any town is programmed on earning money, but they seem to think the other residents of the town do not have any right to earn money, which is not fair to be people whom do not live downtown.  Of course some people live in the remote back country areas of Greenwich, and they manage to make money off New York City or other parts of the world where they do business.  Greenwich Avenue is mostly a women's shopping street except for about a half dozen stores that have items that men might find useful, beside the restaurants and beer pubs.  Thus the local politics on Greenwich Avenue tend to more for women's activities.  There are quite a few people in the overall town and neighboring communities that help keep the community going, while some of the more prosperous back country Greenwich citizens travel around the world doing their own business.  Thus some of the locals have their own viewpoint of downtown versus the weekend tax payers, whom have a more unique point of view.  At my age of 59, I seem to end up downtown, when an older generation is around, and I tend to plan my timing for when it might be less busy during the daytime particularly on sunny week day mornings in pleasant weather.  Of course, we are in the New York City area, so there is always somebody traveling through this area or checking it out besides the regular group of locals that frequently are trying to generate business.  In reality it is only a small fraction of a percentage of the population that can afford the more expensive homes in back country Greenwich, and frequently the working families try to manage their home affairs on weekends, since they do not have time on week days.  My home apartment is running just fine with all of the time that I have been spending home recently, since the Democratic Party Obama recession began.  I quite frankly think part of the recession was caused by the democrats in Chicago, Illinois speculating on oil futures in the commodities markets driving up the price of oil and gasoline last year.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 9:40 P.M..  INVOGE : Dual Geo MS Across the Atlantic

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 9:20 P.M..   I made and ate the same dinner as two and three nights ago.  I watched a Superman movie while making and eating dinner.  I threw out the garbage, and I said hello to some neighbors.  I chatted with a relative.  The relative is watching the TMC movie of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath".  I have been told down in Texas it is so dry down there, it is like the dust bowl in the 1930s, when the land dried out.  I hope the economy is not that bad down there.  They are warmer down there, so they do not have to spend so much money to stay warm in the winter.  My AT&T wireless go phone has $55.05 left on it until September 2, 2009, when I have to spend another $26.50 to charge it up with $25 more time at 25 cents a minute.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 6:35 P.M..  The JVC videotape machine in the bedroom although older has hardly ever been used, and it is stereo and has a separate channel tuner.  I disconnected the three RCA video cables from the Orion television that lead to the Panasonic television, and I connected them to the JVC  videotape machine, and now one leaves the Panasonic television on Video 1 and turn it on and off with power button on the Philips remote control set to television, and one can turn on and off the JVC videotape machine with the JVC remote control, and one can watch all of the non cable box channels, and in other words have the option to channel surf on the Panasonic big screen television.  One can still see the Cable Box channels on the Orion television.  On also has the option of having both televisions going too with different channels.  The only draw back is the Orion television is not as sharp for the Cable box channels, but one also saves money by not having both televisions going.  Also the JVC videotape machine will also work on the Panasonic television.  One gets about 70 channels with the direct cable connetion without the cable box.  Since the JVC videotape machine is an older machine using a 3 digit code, one can not program it into the Philips universal remote control that take 4 digit codes, but that does not matter, since the JVC videotape machine has its own remote control.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 5:45 P.M..  The big screen Panasonic television in the bedroom is connected up to the Orion television with RCA video cables to play off the Orion tuner.  However, briefly the Panasonic tuner worked this afternoon, but it quit working.  However, while it was working, I took off the long Philips coaxial cable that ran from the bedroom Gigabyte computer, and I connected it to the four splitter behind the living room couch, and I connected the other end to the JVC videotape machine with the JVC videotape machine connected to the Panasonic television coaxial input.  The Panasonic tuner worked briefly in that setup bypassing the cable box.  However, after a while the Panasonic tuner quit receiving the signal.  I can still get perfect video and sound on the Panasonic televison with the RCA video cables coming out of the Orion television with it turned on, and the Panasonic television set at Video 1.  I will leave it setup with the other alternative input bypassing the cable box in case, the Panasonic tuner starts working again like it did before.  That is probably why the year 2000 $1250 Panasonic television was only $15 in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  The Orion television is feeding a stereo signal into the Panasonic television along with the video signal.  My two smaller televisions can not be used for that purpose, since they are not stereo.  Still it is good enough in the present setup.  In the bedroom with the gold coaxial two splitter off the cable box with a free terminal, I connected that with a coaxial cable to the bedroom Gigabyte computer, so its TV card now has a cable box connection.  However, all the cable box connections in the apartment can be switched to direct cable feed with the Radio Shack A/B switch beneath the Sony television in the bedroom, in case one needs to channel surf the available no cable box channels.  The JVC videotape machine does not work on the Panasonic television either, and I do not want to put it on the Orion television, since I want a stronger signal from the cable box.  However, the Panasonic television still has its own videotape and DVD players.  I am not use to hot weather, so there was no purpose in me going out today to see any hot weather people lingering around today.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 2:30 P.M..  I woke up at 10 A.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I fax my July 2009 Microsoft Money 2007 income versus spending report to an interested relative.  The fax machine in the family house in Maine is the Samsung SCS-4521FG all purpose machine that I bought from www.newegg.com down from $279 with a $100 instant rebate for $179 with a $50 mail in rebate for $129 with free shipping about two years ago.  It came with a thousand sheet starter toner cartridge which is still in it, since it is not used too much.  It is now showing low toner, so I emailed another relative to have sent this item SCX-4521 FG toner cartridges, and it is $28.49 for the generic toner cartridge and $5.99 UPS shipping to Maine.  Another relative up there would know how to install it.  One has to turn off the telephone answering machine for the fax to pick up in Maine.  In June 2009, when I was there, it would pick up with the answering machine turned on, so somehow the Samsung all purpose fax and printer and copier machine settings got changed.  I forgot to check it out when I was up there, and get it back to picking up with the telephone answering machine turned on.

I chatted with a relative again.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.

I ordered Rs120 / Rs-120 926 MHz Wireless RF Headphones, Charging Cradle, bstock w/ Warran DAKmart for $29.98 and $12.89 shipping for $42.87 total.  Now I will be able to move around the apartment a bit, when I listen to music.  I have a quite good stereo and music setup, and I have wired headphones, but I move around the apartment in my normal routine quite a bit, so now I can listen to the music and move around.  Also the Rs120 headphones recharge when one puts them back in their cradle.  I am quite comfortable in my well maintained apartment, and it is better than sitting out in the heat downtown on a hot summer day.  There is no point is wasting energy to go downtown to be hot, when I am already using energy at home to be cool.

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 1:05 A.M..  2009 AGU Fall Meeting