Note:<888>9/21/99 Tuesday 11:20 P.M. EDT: I updated Scott's Broadcast sound.htm for the first time in about two weeks. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/21/99 Tuesday 9:25 P.M. EDT: I went out at 8 P.M., and I stopped by CVS. I bought a carton of Hav-A-Tampa cigar cigarettes for $12.19, a 12 oz. container of Rosonol lighter fluid for $2.99 plus .91 Ct. sales tax for $16.09 total. I also purchase a package of four 60 watt light bulbs for $1 plus .06 CT. sales tax for $1.06. I chatted with a local German American citizen about research. I stopped by the Greenwich Library and read part of the local paper. I noticed in the legal items in the classified there are certain tax deferments offered by the state of Connecticut to veterans. I returned home after the library started to close. I filled my Greenwich Country Club lighter with teh Rosonol lighter fluid and put it in the Nantucket ash tray. I put away the shell butane lighter. I will now do some of my regular internet work. It is raining very mistily outside. I plan to have a quiet evening at home. Have a quiet evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/21/99 Tuesday 6:40 P.M. EDT: I was up at noon, and I had Kellogss raisin bran, toast, vitamins, orange juice, and coffee. I went back to bed because with all the rain, the low barometric pressure makes me more tired, so I thus slept through a rainy afternoon. I did chat with a few local people about the local reptile problem, and none of them seemed to know what to do with it. I finally got up about 5 P.M., and I watched a bit of television. Apparently Donald Trump is running for President on the Reform Party platform. I guess he can afford his own secret service protection. I have a feeling that the reptile pressence has disappeared from the area, but it might be a temporary sense of security. Possibly with all the rain, it was washed out of the natural watershed in the surrounding area, and it was washed out to sea in Long Island sound. It is hard to tell. I try not to think about Alligators, Salt Water Caymen or other Crocodiles, but I was advised that the Welcome to the New England Aquarium keeps salt water crocodiles up in Boston, god only knows for what purpose. Perhaps they feed Harvard freshmen to the salt water crocodiles whom don't follow the established course curriculum. Well have a good evening, and once I eat a bit and make it outside, I might drop by the library to read a little technology news. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/21/99 Tuesday 5:40 A.M. EDT: Well not much happening is this neck of the woods. I emailed Queen Elizabeth II of England, The High Commission of Australia in London, and the Prime Minister of Australia about getting rid of the Saltwater Crocodile off of Long Island Sound, Greenwich Harbor, and back country swamp land in Greenwich. We don't know what sort of numbers of the reptiles we are talking about, if they have been here for an extended periods of time, they might be well established within the community. Nobody within the community seems willing to comment on any such event since it would jeapardize real estate values, but for all I know we are living on top some ancient aligator pit or indiginous region of the area, where they don't bother the local inhabitants; but it is best to be made aware of such problems. I suspose as we conjecture the salt water crocodille might be over 24 feet long, and weigh over a ton; thus it might want a little bit more to eat than one measly Purdue chicken, so it is best we leave the door open all night of a local food store, so it can walk in and help itself to whatever it wants to eat. I really don't feel like tangling with such a ferocious reptile. Maybe it would settle for a horse out at Conyers Farm, are maybe it might get tired of gourging on blue fish and decide to have something different. Since nobody has been able to spot the saltwater crocodile, it is hard to tell what its feeding habits are or where it originated from. Whether it was dropped here as a terrorist threat to the community or whether it was imported by the House of Fins twenty years ago. Needless to say it seem that it is indeed possibly within the community and swimming in the surrounding waters of Long Island Sound and the shorelines of Connecticut, New York, Long Island, and possibly New Jersey or Rhode Island and possibly points further north and further south. If the saltwater crocodile happens to be using the internet, I read there are millions of dead chickens in North Carolina along with hundreds of thousands of dead hogs, so maybe it might enjoy feasting by itself or with the rest of the Aluevia of Crocodiles swimming out in the ocean or the other wetlands of the continent. If it is indeed an Aluevia of Crocodiles, they might eventually swim into the north country or across to Europe, so all shore dwelling people along the Atlantic ocean's boarders might keep a sharp eye out for unfriendly reptiles swimming in their regions. If you have a lot of money, you might try camping out in the middle of Russia with the wolves, bears, and eight foot plus tall people; I have heard talk about. Of course we will have to see what today brings, for all I know the night are the same as usual. From what I recall with Aligators, Salt Water Caymens, Crocodiles Fresh and Salt; I believe they tend to be more nocturnal; however they will feed anytime of the day depending on their mood and the availability of food supply. Needless to say, I am not sure what the real story is, but I suppose we will know soon enough. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/21/99 Tuesday 2:10 A.M. EDT: Well I chatted with a Texas resident and they told me that two thirds of North Carolina is under water. I guess Reuters Yahoo missed the story. I went out for a drive about 10 P.M., and I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue avoiding the waterfront area of Greenwich Harbor. Of course that does not mean that a reptile could not sneak up behind you from upland, so keep a weary eye when out to any noice in the brush. I did not notice anything unusal. I drove over to CVS at the Riverside shopping plaza and I bought two rolls of Scott towels for .89 each and two packs of Winchester sweet cigar cigarettes for $1.59 each plus .30 Ct. sales tax for $5.26 total. I stopped by the Hyatt in Old Greenwich and a few youngsters were watching the football game on the television. I told one of the desk clerks that 2/3 of North Carolina was under water, and that they should advise their guests to watch out for reptiles and probably stay north of the railroad tracks. However realistically such a creature as a saltwater crocodile could probably venture much further inland, so possibly Montreal or Toronto would be safer. I next went back downtown, and I briefed the local Kennedy security officer downtown. I sat out for a while keeping a keen eye out for any nocternal movements. I figured out if a large 24 saltwater crocodile came down Greenwich Avenue, one if they were in good shape could try climbing a light pole, but since a salt water crocodile can jump 20 feet or more, one would have to have a high perch. I think they're pretty fast creatures, so maybe the best bet would be to walk around with a Purdue chicken and chuck it at it, if it started to approach you, which might deter its progress. Of course you could try keeping your kharma. I then stopped by the Grand Union, and they were closed to fix the Y2K problem. I then stopped by the Food Emporium, and I discussed the crocodile problem with the night staff and some night shoppers. I bought a groumet spinich pizza for $3.29, and I gave them the best briefing I could. I next returned home, and I filed this report. Well have a good evening and keep an eye out for any unusual remains around the waterfront or around town in the morning. Believe me I am not kidding. Well back to the net. CIO

Note:<888>9/20/99 Monday 9:10 P.M. EDT: Or maybe the reptile did not swim back to Manhattan Species Accounts: Saltwater Crocodile cporo.htm . I don't feel like being a dinner guest. CIO

Note:<888>9/20/99 Monday 8:45 P.M. EDT: West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center and Sakhalin TWC and FEMA: FACT SHEET--TSUNAMIS and Tsunami Research Program and Pacific Tsunami Museum Homepage and Science of Tsunami Hazards and Scientific American: Feature Article: TSUNAMI!: May 1999 and http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/tps-seti/spacegd7.html and USC Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Team and Science of Tsunami Hazards - The Tsunami Society and Welcome to Tsunami! and NASA Observatorium . CIO

Note:<888>9/20/99 Monday 8:30 P.M. EDT: I had cheese crackers and ramen noodles, and ice tea; and I went out and read some computer tech newsweeklies at the Greenwich Library. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. It is getting cooler out, so I imagine the gators from Manhattan will be swimming back to their sewers there. Most of the private schools have gone back to school today, so it is a little slower around town. I noticed a surf board in a car parked in front of the movie theatre. I suppose with the 7.6 richter earthquake in Taiwan, that the west coast of the western hemisphere and the various islands in between have to be put on a tidal wave watch. It generally takes two and a half days for a tidal wave to span the Pacific from Asia to the west coast of the western hemisphere. Thus the local beach people in those areas should start waxing up their surf boards or heading East to higher ground. I will look for a link on Tidal Wave or tsunamis activity in the Pacfic. I recall there use to be a site. CIO

Note:<888>9/20/99 Monday 4:15 P.M. EDT: I went to bed at midnight. I was up at 10:30 A.M., and I had breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. With this low pressure system from the hurricane activity, I fell back asleep until just now when NOAA weather radio alerted me to hurricane warning for Bermuda and Flash Flooding for northeast New Jersey tomorrow. Well I guess I should do the dishes and start cleaning up. I called the Greenwich town hall and the Greenwich Harbor Inn about the gator alert this morning. I also called Burns security. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/19/99 Sunday 10:40 P.M. EDT: I went out after the last message. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I was sitting out in front of the post office plaza, and there were lots of bees there. I also was dive bombed by a kamakasi dragon fly that just missed me. The same thing happened after hurricane George last year. I noticed lots of young faces out and about town along with lots of babies and families. There were lots of dinners about. I mentioned to one couple waiting for a table at Thataways that the Roger Scherman Inn in New Canaan, Connecticut might not have such a long wait. I mentioned that with the hurricane evacuations that there might be from three to five million people moving on the eastern seaboard highways. I suggested that Montreal and Toronto might have room for evacuees. I did not go south of the tracks, but I did walk along the railroad platform, and observed lots of people going back to Manhattan. They have temporary crossing platforms since the platform side west bound is closed off. I chatted with one local doing his laundry. I noticed lots of people using Starbucks as usual. I returned home about 9:45 P.M., and I boiled some spehetti noodles and heated some tomatoe sauce and had a speghetti dinner with parmesian cheese sauce with ice tea. I got a pain in my back while I was making the sauce about earlier in the afternoon, and I still have a sharp pain there. I might try a hot tub. I suppose it is another uneventful day in Greenwich, with not much else to report. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/19/99 Sunday 6:00 P.M. EDT: I finished cleaning up. I finished the ice tea. I had some cheese crackers and ice tea for dinner. I will go out shortly as soon as I reboot the server. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/19/99 Sunday 4:00 P.M. EDT: I finished watering the plants and cleaning the apartment. I have a half hour until speghetti sauce I have made is done. I put in a pound of ground beef, two large cans of plum tomatoes, a half cup of white wine, three diced onions, two diced green peppers, a few tablespoons of olive oil, a whole bulb of garlic chopped fine with the Braun chopper in two ounces of water, ground pepper, dashes of Italian spices, oragano, basil, celery salt, poultry seasoning, Chinese five spice, hot curry powder, McHilney's tabasco sauce, Lea and Perrins worstershire sauce, Angostora bitters, and I simmered it all for an hour. I also diced a HoneyDew mellon, and added angostora bitters, a half cup of white wine, and orange juice, and stored it in the refrigerator. I have been listening to Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Listen to the audiobook on broadcast.com while doing all this. I will relax a bit until the speghetti sauce is finished in a half hour, and then I will refrigerate it. I will then probably make icetea.htm and clean up, and maybe go out around 6 P.M.. Well have a fun afternoon with the Reptile neighbors. CIO

Note:<888>9/19/99 Sunday 12:50 P.M. EDT: Well I was up at about 11 A.M.. I had breakfast of Kelloggs raisin bran, toast, coffee, orange juice, and vitamins. I checked with a few other people on the reptile matter. I guess somebody will take care of it sooner or later. I have to do house cleaning for the next few hours. Well have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>9/18/99 Saturday 11:05 P.M. EDT: I tried installing Frontpage 2000, and it installed; but it quit responding trying to open my web site. I guess it does not work with my web site, so I uninstalled it. I also had to reinstall Outlook 98. I guess not much is happening locally since everyone is maintaining normal routine. Well have a good evening, back to a little web work. CIO

Note:<888>9/18/99 Saturday 9:30 P.M. EDT: Well I went back to bed until 4 P.M.. I got a tired spell from the Benadryl. I got up and cleaned up. I chatted with a couple of other people about the gator or caymen. I then drove up to Home Depot in Norwalk on the Post Road. I exchanged the dead fiscus plant that had died for a golden pathos for $1.12 more. I then stopped by CompUSA and toured the merchandise. I next went up to New Canaan, and I had a blueberry muffin at Dunkin donuts for .90. I then walked the entire length of downtown New Canaan. I returned to Greenwich via the Merrit Parkway. I chatted with a local about the gator. I then walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. I then avoided going down Steamboat Road. I then went by the Grand Union, and I chatted with a harbor regular about the gator. I then bought 90% ground beef at $2.99 a pound for $3.89, a Tony's Pepperoni pizza for $3, a bulb of garlic for .28, two green peppers at .99 a pound for $1.07, for $10.63 total. I told a local attorney that I had told a lot of people about the gator. I returned home, and I conferred with my neighbor. I put the golden pathos in my clay pot. I recieved another copy of Frontpage 2000 demo CD disk, which I will install shortly when I shut down the server. Well not much else happening. Have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>9/18/99 Saturday 11:40 A.M. EDT: I went back to bed after breakfast, and I got up at around 10:30 A.M. and I finished my coffee, and I did a little computer work. I am just relaxing at home, have a good day. I checked with various police officals on the alligator, salt water caymen, or crocodile matter; and there are now only two swans not four swans on Greenwich harbor according to them. Needless to say I plan to avoid the harbor area for the indefinte future. Use your own best judgement, and if anyone has a reptilian experience, I suggest they report it to the local authorities. CIO

Note:<888>9/18/99 Saturday 3:55 A.M. EDT: I sat up through the hurricane on Thursday evening. It was not that bad. At around 8:30 P.M. while I was downstairs in the community room chatting with my neighbors, I heard a loud noise like a clap of lightning, but one generally does not get lightning in a hurricane. I walked around the building once, and it was not too bad. I threw out the Yugoslavian grape jelly, I had in my refrigerator for three years. I chatted with some neighbors. I stayed inside, and I was up until about 6 A.M.. I went to bed and got up at 9 A.M.. When I got up at 9 A.M., I felt like I had been hit by a biological warefare attack, and I thought that maybe the explosion I heard during the hurricane was a biological warefare shell exploding in the area. I felt like the noise came from 48 miles to the northwest. I had breakfast of Total, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I next sat up thinking. I chatted with a few people about the alligator problem in the area. I chatted with GEICO insurance about it. I chatted with Roger Kennedy of Kennedy security told me that one of his dogs was bitten by something over by the Japanese school and Stillman Rockefellers property. I also told a partner of Greenwich Capital partners, Morgan Jenkin sister, Malcom Pray's secretary, and a few other people around. Basically if there is and there probably is an aligator around or misplaced crocodile, it probably lives here in the winter hypernating in the Steam Pipes of various building facilities. It probably crawls into the bridge culvert in front of the boys club where there are steam pipes, so it never freezes; and that was where the swans use to live before they were eaten. I guess they can go up from that culvert up the natural stream bed that runs along Malcom Pray's dealership, up through the wet land areas between lake Avenue and Glenville Road. Thus any wetland areas in the area could have an alligator in the warmer time of the year. I suppose it would be important to watch oneself when outside. Probably during the colder weather they would hybernate. I chatted with Rockefeller University and the Greenwich Hospital about the allery and alligator problems. I continued to feel lousy, and I finally remember that the talewinds of a hurricane have all the allergies of the tropics, so I went out about 4 P.M., and I bought two packages of Benadryl at CVS for $7.18 total. I returned home quickly, so as not to be outside in the allergy weather very long. I then had some Ramen noodles and ice tea and went to bed about 7 P.M., and I just got up now, and I will have some breakfast of three fried eggs, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and coffee. Well have a good morning. Basically with this alligator problem, I feel like locking myself in my bank vault and never coming out again. There is traditional folk wisdom, that if you mess with a aligator that since they live to be over 200 years old, they will come back to haunt your off spring after you are dead a hundred years. Well I suppose I should get some sort of Koon dog, but I don't have the time to walk a Koon dog. Well have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>9/16/99 Thursday 1:45 P.M. EDT: Yesterday I went out, and I stopped by the bank. I drove by the Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a Coleman drink holder for $1.50 made by Rubbermaid. I stopped by CVS and bought a carton of Tampa lite cigar cigarettes for $12.19, peanuts $1.69, shaving aftershave conditioner $1.39 plus tax .81 for a total $16.08 I went down by the harbor and chatted with a couple of fisherman and told them about the gator, and as usual with their prefixed conditions they did not believe me. If the fisherman down by the harbor continues with the same prefixed attitude, I would prescribe medication, since obviously he is a fish out of water. I next drove by the libary and chatted with a couple of local observers, and I suggested to him that his team could pick up the new visitor. I next stopped by Exxon and got $15.50. I next stopped by the Grand Union and bought a half gallon of 2% milk for $1.69. I chatted with a few local people there about the upcoming storm condition, and I recommended they fill up their gasoline tanks with gasoline in case the electricity goes out. I then observed around the Grand Union, and I then I played a game of satellite shopping cart chess and chatted with a few other local shoppers and patrons of other stores. I next went home, and I chatted with one my neighbors. I forgot to eat, and I sat up until about 6 A.M. remember various historical research projects. I told the story about the alligator invasion in Buenas Area, Argentina in 1906 when hundereds of thousands of gators sweaped into town off the ocean and ate most every one during fesitval time, except one local man who fed the baby alligators at the local botanical garden. It was a rather pecuilar story to read, and I also told them about how old Wiley Middletown's nemesis alligator came out of the swamp right after he died and ate him and spit him out for the baby gators to eat just after he died. I then relaxed quite a bit, and a lot of this historical information is available in French from the Bibliotech National de Paris, and possibly available for download over the internet. Well I relaxed until about 8 A.M., and I got up at around noon. The NOAA weather radio has gone off a few times, and it is raining heavily out. I have to eat breakfast and clean up and go out in the rain for my 3 P.M. soon. Have a good afternoon. CIO

Note:<888>9/15/99 Wednesday 8:55 A.M. EDT: Well I had some time to think about what I observed down by the waterfront on the pier on Steamboat Road yesterday. I noticed quite a few dead rats which had not been eaten, and I noticed a few dead sea gulls that had been eaten and there were only feather wings left. Having camped out in Key West, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, and other tropical parts of Florida that would be an indication that we have a common site from Florida in the area. As any old Florida hand would tell you that is a sure sign of an aligator prowling around the waterfront in this area. Since an aligator would not swim up here either one got away from the zoo or on snuck off somebody boat that arrived up here. That is the best I can determine from what I observed around here. Needless to say I try to keep my kharma with aligators since they are part of the ecological evolution of the tropical areas. Normally we feed aligator old chickens that are out date, so possibly if you threw an old chicken in the water on Steamboat Road, I bet the aligator would eat it and leave the sea gulls alone for a day. That is the best I can determine from what I observed yesterday. I still have not cleaned up, and I will be out in a while. Well have a good morning. I am just conferencing. CIO

Note:<888>9/15/99 Wednesday 6:00 A.M. EDT: Well I went out yesterday after the last message. I went downtown and walked around lower Greenwich Avenue. I chatted with a few visitors. I stopped by the Mews Thrift shop and viewed some of the merchandise. I drove down by the waterfront and observed some local marine activity. I came home about 6:30 P.M. as I recall. I recieved a phone call from a friend and went over to visit until 9:30 P.M. The friends grandmother had not evacuated Daytona Beach, and she was uncurred down in the powder room of her apartment in case the hurricane came ashore there. I gave them some advise from what I know of the area in 1978. I then returned to Greenwich and walked lower Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out for a while. I then drove down by the waterfront, and I viewd the harbor. A few fishermen were down there, so I told them about the large number of sea gulls, and they know where to take cover from the storm. I suppose if the sea gulls leave, we might be in for trouble. I returned home at 11:30 P.M., and I went to bed at midnight, and I was up at 5 A.M. this morning. Well have a good morning, and I have to have breakfast of Kelloggs raisin bran, toast, orange and grapefruit juice, coffee, and vitamins. CIO