End of Scott's Notes week of 10/31/09: 

Note: <888> 10/31/09  Saturday 11:50 P.M..  I went ahead and set back the clocks and watches an hour.  I think the televisions automatically set themselves back through the Cablevision system.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I probably should do laundry when ever I wake up tomorrow after breakfast.  I have not done my apartment cleaning since about mid August 2009, so I should some  time think about getting around to that too.  I will now send out my weekly notes, before I go to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/31/09  Saturday 8:25 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  I picked up my guests at the Greenwich Train station.  They arrived about 10 minutes late on the 3:01 P.M. train out from Manhattan.  I showed them the new condominiums across the street from the Delamar Hotel to show them some new construction downtown.  We then looked at a back country room for rent that goes for $3,500 a month, but the place closes down in February I guess for lack of interest.  I then drove up North Street and across Clapboard Ridge Road to Round Hill Road, and up Round Hill Road and across Close Road to Upper Lake Avenue and across Upper Cross Road to North Street to Banksville.  We toured by the IGA shopping plaza.  The Greenwich Hardware store in Banksville is now closed.  They have a new fire department in Banksville, New York which I had not seen before.  Just north of Scott Road off North Street before Banksville there are a lot of Halloween ghouls in the yard.   There are new sculptures out at the Conyers Farm Polo Grounds.  We drove back down North Street, and we drove by Paterson Avenue and turned down the side street that goes by the new Greenwich Hospital.  I showed them the new Greenwich Hospital, but they were afraid to look.  We then drove down Greenwich Avenue.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I showed them the new Greenwich Police station.  We looked at the pastries at Versailles, St. Moritz, and the new Belgium communal table restaurant.  We looked at the Chinese take out restaurant, but my guests thought it smell funny.  We then drove by the Panda Pavilion, but they did not have time to eat there.  My guests ate a hamburger and salad with beverages at Wendy's.  One of the patrons was wearing a Department of Corrections Orange Jump Suit. We then returned back to the Greenwich Train station, and my guests caught the 6:12 P.M. train back into Manhattan.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I brought up the mail.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now eat the same dinner that I have been eating recently of cold beef and steamed vegetables and watered down punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/31/09  Saturday 1:40 P.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will get ready to go out and meet my guests.  My guests are thinking of moving out here for the more private peaceful low stress life in the country.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/09  Saturday 1:25 P.M..  I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors.  My guests will be arriving at the Greenwich Train station at 3:01 P.M..  Since we are going to a more formal area of town, I have to put on some more formal country clothes.  You know the Old Guard back country look.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/09  Saturday 12:05 P.M..  I chatted with two relatives.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Bulkie roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle salt and vinegar potato chips, a dill pickle slice and watered down punch.  Tonight at 2 A.M. the clocks fall back an hour to 1 A.M..  In Daylight Savings Time, Spring Forward an Hour, Fall back an hour in the Fall.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/31/09  Saturday 10:20 A.M..  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.   CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/09  Saturday 7:30 A.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I am just about ready to drink a cup of Asian Gourmet green tea with splenda and Borden lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/31/09  Saturday 6:50 A.M..  I had two telephone calls while asleep.  One was to invite me to some conference in Minnesota, and the other was a survey telephone call.  I woke up at 11:30 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed, when I woke up at 3 A.M., and I ate a piece of crumb cake.  I went back to bed again until 6:30 A.M..  I ate another piece of crumb cake.  I have guests that I am meeting at the Greenwich Train station around 3 P.M. this afternoon, so I had to get back on a daytime schedule.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/30/09  Friday 2:30 P.M..  After the last note, I rested, and then I went out at 2 P.M., and I chatted with neighbors, and I picked up the mail.  I am suppose to have my Connecticut Emissions done on the Audi by December 27, 2009.  I then went back to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/30/09  Friday 11:10 A.M..  BBC NEWS | Europe | Largest cruise liner leaves port

Note: <888> 10/30/09  Friday 10:30 A.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a 1/6th piece of the crumb cake.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/30/09  Friday 8:35 A.M..  I went out after the last note.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I chatted with a regular at the train station about the price of tea in China.  I looked at the entrance of the new Greenwich Public Safety building, and there does not appear to be public bathrooms in the lobby.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I told them I had seen on the BBC on television, they have built tens of thousands of new coffee shops in Europe, so I guess the Starbucks crowd now has some place to go.  I completed my walk.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 21 ounce bakery yesterday's good crumb cake for $3, a 6 pack of Stop and Shop hot dog buns for $1.34, a dozen large eggs expire December 2, 2009 for $2.29, a half gallon of Stop and Shop premium orange juice with calcium for $2.99, two 13.5 ounce reduced fat Cheez-its for $2.50 each, red apples for .59 a pound for $1.49, fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $2.09, a 5 pound bag of yellow potatoes for $2.99 for $21.19 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my groceries.

I paid my November 2009 www.geico.com insurance payment.  I still have two more monthly payments on the four payments of a six month policy.

I will now eat the same cold beef and steamed vegetables dinner that I have been eating recently.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/30/09  Friday 5:15 A.M..  I used 10 drops of Schultz liquid plant food for each quart of water that I watered the plants with.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for a walk downtown.  It is currently 49 degrees Fahrenheit with a high today of 57 degrees Fahrenheit and partly cloudy today.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/30/09  Friday 4:55 A.M..  I can not pay my www.geico.com bill until their computers are back up and running at 9 A.M. EDT.  I will now water the plants, and I throw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/30/09  Friday 4:10 A.M..  I paid my www.cablevision.com Digital Cable Television, Optimum Boost Online, and Optimum Voice long distance, my www.cl-p.com electricity, and my www.verizon.com bills.

I ordered from www.ordersmokesdirect.com six cartons of King Mountain Ultra Lights 100s in a box for $25.99 a carton plus $17.47 shipping for $173.41 total.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/30/09  Friday 3:40 A.M..  I went to bed after the last note.  A friend call about 8 P.M., and I am going to pick up the friend and a relative at the Greenwich Train station on Saturday afternoon at 3 P.M..  They are arriving from that faraway land called Manhattan.  I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed until 1 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 10 A.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I put a new Glade Plugin Hawaiian Breeze scent in the Glade Plugin holder in the kitchen.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/29/09  Thursday 4:00 P.M..  I will now make and drink a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and Borden's lemon juice.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/29/09  Thursday 3:15 P.M..  I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors.  The mail arrived.  I received a letter from the Greenwich Housing Authority saying that both the October and November 2009 rent statements would be sent out by November 2, 2009.

I also received the order with tracking at USPS - The United States Postal Service (U.S. Postal Service) with tracking number "03091140000013441908" for the order for Dell UY441 Latitude D410 Battery Li-ion Type Y6142 53WH - eBay (item 230390895233 end time Oct-28-09 15:10:19 PDT) for $20 and $5 shipping.

I installed the battery in the Dell Latitude D410, and I set up the battery settings and tray icon in both partitions.  It is suppose to be a new nine cell Dell battery, so it should have about a 2.45 hour battery life on Power Saving settings.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/29/09  Thursday 1:50 P.M..  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Bulkie roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle salt and vinegar potato chips, a dill pickle slice and watered down passion punch.  I chatted with a relative.   CIO   

Note: <888> 10/29/09  Thursday 1:15 P.M..  I woke up at 6 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 10 A.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage,  and I chatted with neighbors.  I went downtown, and I went by the Greenwich Automotive services Gulf station, and I bought $17.25 of self service premium at $3.279 a gallon for 5.260 gallons for 66.2 miles driving since October 11, 2009 at odometer reading of 65061 miles for 12.586 miles per gallon mostly in local traffic.  I cleaned the outside windows, and I checked the tires for 32 PSI.  I then went by the Chase Bank just west of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue.  I then went downtown, and I use the Chase Bank ATM machine just south of the Greenwich Post Office.  I then use the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center.  I sat out for a while.  I then returned home.  I chatted with neighbors.

Note: <888> 10/29/09  Thursday 2:30 A.M.. Britannica Encyclopedia Natural Disasters

Note: <888> 10/29/09  Thursday 12:45 A.M..  I slept after the last note until 8 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I ate the same dinner as last night.

I posted a mirror web site http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/ to replace the Geocities web site that was shut down.  It has most of the same content except the photographs.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/28/09  Wednesday 3:20 P.M..  I have been doing some routine computer work.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Bulkie roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle salt and vinegar potato chips, a dill pickle slice and watered down passion punch.   I picked up the mail.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/28/09  Wednesday 10:20 A.M..  I woke up yesterday at 10 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with neighbors.  I read all of the most recent back issues of www.time.com except the most recent issue.  I checked the mail a few times. 

The order for Newegg.com - Kingston 1GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Laptop Memory Model KVR667D2SO/1GR - Laptop Memory for $25.49 with free shipping arrived, when I finally picked up my mail.  I put the new memory in the Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer, and it works just fine.  I now have two gigabytes of memory in it.  Earlier I used BCDEdit to change the Windows 7 boot manager to boot Windows XP Professional as the default by changing the Windows 7 boot manager.  I also installed the owner's manual and service manager on both partitions.

I ate dinner of two half inch thick slices of cold eye round of beef with horse radish and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce along with my usual steamed vegetable mixture with olive oil and watered down punch.  I chatted with a relative.  I went to bed at 8 P.M..  I woke up at 6 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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  While making and eating breakfast, I did another Windows 7 Complete PC backup of both partitions of the Dell Latitude D410 laptop from the hard drive to the Maxtor external hard drive to save my recent changes.  I clipped my toe nails and finger nails.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/27/09  Tuesday 3:55 A.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will eat an apple, and then I will go to bed.  Rain today and high of 53 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/27/09  Tuesday 3:30 A.M..  These other D410 docking devices are available http://www.discountelectronics.com/index.php?l=search_list&s[match]=all&s[search]=D410&s[title]=Y&s[short_desc]=N&s[full_desc]=N&s[cid]=3794&s[subcats]=Y&s[mid]=0&s[sku]=&s[price_from]=&s[price_to]=&s[weiGHt_from]=&s[weiGHt_to]=&gclid=CIuZgf_U3J0CFRBM5QodCmS-PA

Note: <888> 10/27/09  Tuesday 2:45 A.M..  Dell Latitude D410 driver download Notebook, Laptop for windows free : GiveMeFile.Net 

Note: <888> 10/27/09  Tuesday 1:35 A.M..  I ordered RD730 PR06S Latitude D410 Media Base Docking Station - eBay (item 200395477314 end time Oct-27-09 07:32:14 PDT) for $19.99 and $8.10 shipping for $28.09 total.  There are more listed on the bottom of the page for the same price.

Note: <888> 10/27/09  Tuesday 12:45 A.M..  Glenlivet Nadurra

I drank a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and Borden lemon juice.

Hillary Rodham Clinton (United States senator, first lady, and secretary of state) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Note: <888> 10/26/09  Monday 11:30 P.M..  I woke up at 8 P.M..  I picked up my mail.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Bulkie roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle salt and vinegar potato chips, a dill pickle slice and watered down passion punch.  I made my bed.  I went downtown, and I went by the Chase ATM machine just west of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and all of the fishermen have disappeared.  There was just one lonely car.  I overheard a few people speaking Russian downtown, so I guess the northern people are returning to visit here for the winter.  I then returned home.  Not much happening here in Greenwich, Iceland.   CIO  

Note: <888> 10/26/09  Monday 1:00 P.M..  I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors.  I closed the right living room window, since it was getting a bit cool and damp inside despite the nice weather here today.  I guess I will have to get use to a warmer apartment for a short time before it gets colder soon.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/26/09  Monday 11:50 A.M..  New Greenwich police headquarters to open this week - Greenwich Time   CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/09  Monday 11:30 A.M..  I also had a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and Borden lemon juice.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with neighbors.  I chatted with a relative.

Note: <888> 10/26/09  Monday 8:45 A.M..  I watched some television.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I walked outside briefly.  It is beginning to warm up outside.  I will now cook the eye round the way that I cook it, and I will eat some of it with my usual vegetable mixture with olive oil and a glass of watered down punch.  The headlines in the printed version of the Greenwich Time says the new public safety building is suppose to open this week.   I still think they should have a 24 hour public bathroom in the place.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/09  Monday 7:15 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.  It looked to be fairly busy and activity looked to be normal for that hour of the morning.  I was told a couple of weeks ago by a Greenwich Police officer, that the new public safety building is suppose to open the first week of November 2009.  From what I can tell, they might also look into getting newer police cars versus the old www.ford.com Crown Victorias that they still drive.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/09  Monday 5:30 A.M..  I showered, and I cleaned up.  It is suppose to be mostly sunny and a high of 62 degree Fahrenheit today.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out for an early morning walk.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/26/09  Sunday 11:20 A.M..  After the last note, I chatted with a friend who is thinking of moving out of New York City with her husband and moving back to Greenwich, Connecticut.  I went to bed.  I woke up at 3 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.

The last time I road a horse was in Greenwich, Connecticut back in the spring of 1976.  I had quit smoking cigarettes.  I ran into a friend riding a horse on the new lower playing fields at the Greenwich Country Day school.  The friend let me ride her horse, and it took off at a full cantor across the 300 yards of playing field, and then it came to an abrupt stop by the stone wall on the fourth hole at the Greenwich Country Club, and the horse threw me over its head into the woods, and I never rode a horse after that.   Strange things happen when one quits smoking cigarettes.

Of course when I did not smoke cigarettes in Decatur, Alabama as a youth back in the 1950s, I used to regularly ride horses on trails. You could rent them from a local stable for $5 an hour, and I would ride on the trails in the woods.  I also use to take care of my father's boss's daughter's horse, and I use to feed it every afternoon at a nearby private stable.  I recall the horse once got mad at me, and it cornered me in the stall and tried to trample me, and I quickly climbed up into the hay loft, and after a couple hours, it let me climb back down.  I recall feeding the horse a very healthy food mixture.  I can not remember everything.  I think I fed the horse oats, barley, cracked corn, walnuts, apples molasses, and carrots.  I also rode another horse at General Joe Wheeler's plantation, and I recall riding it at a full gallop across the open pastures, and I managed to stay on the horse, until it ran away with me, and it ran into the barn, and almost knocked my head off.

They also had horses at Lookout Mountain Camp for boys for trail riding in the woods.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/25/09  Sunday 9:05 P.M..  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Bulkie roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle salt and vinegar potato chips, a dill pickle slice and watered down passion punch.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed shortly.  CIO    

Note: <888> 10/25/09  Sunday 8:05 P.M..  After the last note, I went to bed.  About 2 P.M., I had a telephone call from a friend that said he would be visiting with family.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went outside, and I noticed the baseball field was active.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I went back inside to get a jacket.  My friend and his wife and daughter arrived about 3 P.M..  We drove into back country Greenwich to look at a 17 year old white Dutch stallion show horse, they are thinking about leasing.  We watched the riders and horse exercise the horse.  We played with their dogs.  My friends had a mixed breed Jack Russell Terrier and English Corgi that had recently had a $3,500 liver operation, but their dog is doing well.  We then toured around my family's old neighborhood in back country.  We then to www.mcdonalds.com on West Putnam Avenue, and my friend's daughter ate chicken nuggets.  We then returned back to my apartment, and the father and daughter used the bathroom.  I saw them all leave about 7 P.M..  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/25/09: 

Note: <888> 10/25/09  Sunday 11:25 A.M..  I put Net2Phone on all three of the Dell Laptop computers.  However, the headset on the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop does not work very well.  I also put the Xircom LAN Modem network adapter card in the secondary Dell Latitude CS laptop, and it is near telephones by the French reproduction chair, so it could be connected to Verizon telephone cable if the electricity ever went off or the Cable modem went out.  Both of the Dell Latitude CS laptops also have new batteries.  However, the Dell D410 will not have a battery until I can afford it.  The Dell D410 also has a telephone modem jack and Juno free dialup, where if could be possibly connected to the Siemens Verizon telephone line in a power failure or cable modem failure.  I also could run the laptops for a while off the UPS devices that I use on the primary and FIC computers.  However, right now everything is all right.  However, we are suppose to have a much colder winter than last winter which was bad enough as I recall.  In a cold winter, one can get ice storms and power failure less you forget.  Out in Long Island they have a lot of Natural Gas from Canada because of the pipe line from Canada to Long Island, so they do not worry as much about power failures in the winter, and also because Long Island is surrounded by water, it tends to be warmer in the winter than the south shore of Connecticut. 

I chatted with a relative.  The relative told me the locals in Florida have imported a lot of large monitor lizards which can be more dangerous in the wild than alligators.  They can grow to be up to six feet long.

I finished eating the opened last third of a 16 ounce jar of dry roasted peanuts.

I will now send out my weekly notes, and then I will go to bed for the day.  I might be out for a late evening walk later this evening, since I have already done laundry.  One does not find much lost money on Greenwich Avenue, since in 26 years back in Greenwich, Connecticut I have only found $46 on Greenwich Avenue walking, and one $20 bill I found on the floor of the old Grand Union, so that only works out to $26 found on Greenwich Avenue in $26 years or to be precise a dollar a year.

Maybe secretly I am still one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's millionaire dollar a year employees, so they do not pay me very much if anything, but I get by. 

CIO

Note: <888> 10/25/09  Sunday 8:35 A.M..  I went out after the last note.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I used the ATM machine at the Chase Bank just west of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue.  It now accepts cash for deposits.  I chatted with someone going into St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church about Florence, Italy back in the winter of 1972.

After my walk, I cruised around town, and I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  There was a full house of fishermen on the pier trying out the late season fishing.  The lights appeared to be on out on Long Island.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I chatted with one of their staff from the Caribbean about the Caribbean.   I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a six pack of Bulkie rolls for $3.19, 1.5 pounds of Boar's Head white sliced American cheese for $4.99 a pound for $7.68, 1.5 pounds of Stop and Shop Virginia ham sliced for $5.99 a pound for $9.22, a quart of Borden's lemon juice for $2.69, a cab eye round of top round roast for $2.99 a pound for $11.66, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.64, and broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $1.87 for $40.94 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my groceries. 

I forgot to put www.net2phone.com on both partitions on the Dell D410.  I will do that shortly.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/25/09  Sunday 4:30 A.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for an early morning walk.  Currently it is 55 degrees Fahrenheit and partly cloudy.  It is suppose to be a high of 58 degrees Fahrenheit today with sunny weather.  I will probably also try to go out for a walk later on this evening.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/25/09  Sunday 4:05 A.M..  On the Dell Latitude D410 laptop, I though it used smaller network adapter cards, since it has a plastic tray that slides out that looks like it holds a smaller Network adapter.  However, the small plastic tray slides all of the way out, and I put it underneath the brass tray that the laptop sits on.  I took off the WN511B - RangeMax Wireless-N Notebook Adapter from the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop, and I installed the software for it on both partitions on the Dell D410, and I installed the card after installing the software.  The card has Wireless N capability, but the wireless around here is not that powerful.

Note: <888> 10/25/09  Sunday 2:50 A.M..  Possibly last American company Old Yankee Clock Works , but I think the parts on the inside might be made in China.  When I first started buying computer parts 20 years ago for my home computer hobby, I used to deal with a Chinese computer person named Ming, but his web site no longer seems to work www.hmcomputer.com .  Perhaps his young son has grown up and taken over the business while Ming sits back and enjoys all of his profits and sips a cup of green tea.

I baked half of a 24 ounce box of America's Choice frozen fish sticks or 22 fish sticks of the 44 in box, and I ate them with a about one third of a cup of Heinz ketchup mixed with two tablespoons of Gold's hot horseradish, and I had my usual vegetable mixture with a glass of watered down punch and a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and Borden's lemon juice.

When one gets older, one tends to do things by routine which is a lot cheaper than going out of one's normal routine, particularly since I am not too familiar with the daytime business activity around here.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/25/09  Sunday 1:20 A.M..  I put away the laundry.  I chatted with a neighbor.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/25/09  Sunday 12:15 A.M..  I have 30 minutes and 50 minutes to go on two dry cycles.

In the Dutch Church Crystal Cathedral Ministries : Welcome , Cleanliness is next go Godliness.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/09  Saturday 11:40 P.M..  I always wandered if Nancy Davis Reagan, Betty David, and Jefferson Davis were related.  In which case they are probably from southern families.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/09  Saturday 11:40 P.M..  I opened the right living room window about 18 inches, because it was too hot in the apartment, and it was up to about 78 degrees Fahrenheit inside the living room.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I have 5 minutes to go on one load of wash and 25 minutes to go on another load of wash.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/09  Saturday 9:20 P.M..  I went to bed after breakfast, so I still have to do the tasks in the note below.  I also chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/09  Saturday 6:20 P.M..  The telephone number to call about possibly using my 12 gigabytes of storage space available from Optimum Boost for off site web hosting is at Hostaway at 1-800-504-5710.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/09  Saturday 6:05 P.M..  I woke up at 3 P.M..  I did a Vista Complete PC backup on the primary Vista computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now wash the breakfast dishes.  I will then put clean linens on my bed.  I will then shower and clean up.  I will then do loads of laundry.  Tomorrow night is suppose to be clear, so I would rather have time to get out and walk than doing laundry as usual on Sunday.  I also chatted with a friend briefly.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/24/09  Saturday 9:55 A.M..  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Bulkie roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips, a dill pickle slice and watered down passion punch.   Since www.geocities.com is shutting down, I chatted with Cablevision.  I get 12 gigabytes of disk storage with Optimum Boost, but I am not sure if I can access it without changing my domain name settings.  I only keep the other site going for when I am away which is not too much anymore.

Rain today and a high of 65 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good day.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/09  Saturday 7:15 A.M..  I strung a Targus Ultra Max laptop cable lock around the base of the round oak dining table, and I connected it to the Dell D410.  I also have a Targus Defcon retractable cable lock that I strung around my two primary Vista computer LCD monitors Targus DEFCON® Laptop Security .  I have fairly good security in the building, but there is no point in taking the chance of having the items mentioned walk away on their own.  Times are tough and money is tight, so one should exercise extra security for valuable items.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/09  Saturday 6:15 A.M..  From this page Dell - Ownership Transfers since the Dell "Find My Service Tag" program would not work on the Dell D410, I used this page Dell - Ownership Transfers 2 to transfer ownership of the Dell D410 to myself.  I also printed out a few copies of a paper with the Service Tag and Express Service Code on it along with the details of ownership transfer.  I also made a couple copies of the Invoice that came with the Dell D410. 

Note: <888> 10/24/09  Saturday 3:55 A.M..  EW Good Fats Bad Fats

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Note: <888> 10/24/09  Saturday 1:50 A.M..  I ate a three egg omelet with three slices of processed cheese with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and six strips of bacon and a toasted bagel with Smart Balence spread and watered down passion punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/09  Saturday 12:10 A.M..  Pictures of my refurbished Dell Latitude D410 Product Details are here http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-102409/ .  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/23/09  Friday 11:50 P.M..  After the last note, we had another fire false alarm in the building.  The fire department showed up, and all they can figure out is something is wrong with the fire alarm system in that it went off twice in the last 24 hours.  I met the new neighbor that is moving in the apartment over looking the baseball field.

I went to bed after that around noon.  I woke up at 5 P.M. when a relative called.

I took out the defective DVD/RW drive from the USB external DVD/RW case, and I installed my spare new Newegg.com - Sony Optiarc Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache IDE 22X DVD±R DVD Burner - CD / DVD Burners .  I then did another Windows 7 Complete PC backup of both partitions on the Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer to the Maxtor external hard drive saving the few recent changes from Windows update this morning, and I was able to create the Windows 7 System Recovery disk on DVD using the new Sony DVD/RW drive in the USB external DVD/RW case. 

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed until 10 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  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 the mail. I am working without most of the living room lights on so the apartment does not get too hot.  It is currently 75 degrees Fahrenheit in the living room.

I put the Intel web cam back on the bedroom Gigabyte computer held in place on top of the LCD monitor by two rubber bans interlaced together.  I moved the new Logitech web cam from that location to the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer, so it sits more steady on top of the open notebook screen.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/23/09  Friday 11:10 A.M..  Free Geocities sites are suppose to close October 26, 2009.

I ate two hot dogs on buns with ketchup and mustard, 1/4th of a 6.3 ounce tube of Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips, a dill pickle slice and watered down punch.

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer.

Cloudy today with a high of 54 degrees Fahrenheit.

I will make up another batch of Passion punch before going to bed.  I have only had four hours sleep since Wednesday afternoon at 3 P.M., when I woke up that day.  At least the new Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer is all configured and backed up.  It only has a 12 inch screen, so it is like a large Netbook.

Note: <888> 10/23/09  Friday 10:20 A.M..  On the Dell D410 in Windows 7, the Intel video driver and its program was installed by Windows Update.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/09  Friday 9:50 A.M..  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I chatted with a relative.  I finished the backup.  I tried to also create the DVD System Repair disk which is not necessary, but for some reason the external USB DVD writer gave an error, and it did not create it, but it is not necessary.

My free Geocities web site still has its contents, but it looks like they have finally shut down the upload feature, so only my home server http://mikelouisscott.com/ will be available anymore.

Note: <888> 10/23/09  Friday 8:45 A.M..  On the Dell D410, I have Windows 7 RC configured on the second partition.  The Intel Video drivers would not install, but the regular VGA driver works just fine.  My Netgear LAN storage device and the Netgear Print Server software do not work with Windows 7, so I uninstalled them.  The Netgear FR114P print server does install, when installed as Administrator.  I have about 33 gigabytes of files on both partition, so I am now using the Windows 7 Complete PC backup program to backup both partitions to the Maxtor external hard drive.  If need be to restore, one can boot the Windows 7 DVD and do a Complete PC restore.  I am running out of space on the 250 gigabyte Maxtor external hard drive.  I am suppose to use PC5300 memory on the Dell D410.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/09  Friday 4:05 A.M..  I got the product key for the free Paragon Disk Manager 9.5 that I downloaded this past Sunday.  I put it on the XP partition on the Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer, and since the new Seagate Hard Drive is actually about 74 gigabytes with about 20 gigabytes used, I used the free Paragon Disk Manager 9.5 to resize it, so I created 20.5 gigabytes of unused non partitioned space on the Seagate hard drive leaving about 53.5 Gigabytes on the C: drive partition.

I then booted up the Windows 7 RC DVD, and I partitioned the unused space into a 20.5 gigabyte second partition, and I am now installing Windows 7 RC on the second partition.  It is good until March 2010, so I will be able to use it until then.  It is the enterprise edition with the backup program and other features.  After it is installed, I will of course have to configure it. 

Windows 7 RC should work just fine on it, but when I can afford to buy another gigabyte of memory, it will work even better.  I have to look at the www.crucial.com memory site to see if it is currently using 400 MHz or 533 MHz memory.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/23/09  Friday 2:45 A.M..  I made two copies of the Windows XP Professional SP3 CD from PCMicro.  I also printed out copies of the original Dell D410 product key and the PCMicro Refurbished Product Key.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/23/09  Friday 1:40 A.M..  I watched television until 5:30 P.M..  I woke up at 10 P.M..  I did a Windows XP Professional ASR backup of the Dell D410 from the C: drive to the Maxtor external hard drive.  I had installed Microsoft Money 2007 Deluxe on it, so I wanted to save the changes.  About 10:30 P.M. the building fire alarm went off, and the fire department arrived, but there did not seem to be any problem.  I checked the apartment hallways to see if any lights were on outside anyone's doors, but I did not see any lighted up.  I made my usual breaded boneless breast of chicken dinner along with steamed vegetables with olive oil and watered down punch.  However, the defrosted chicken had gone bad, so I only ate the vegetables.  I also had a cup of  Salada green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I threw out seven frozen boneless breasts of chicken that I figured were probably bad also along with the cooked one.   I chatted with a neighbor.  I shut down the Dell D410.

Note: <888> 10/22/09  Thursday 3:50 P.M..  I tried to sleep after the last note, but I could not sleep.  I disconnected the old Toshiba satellite laptop and its power supply from its place on the oak dining table across from the small computer table, and I put it to the left of the Bedroom Gigabyte computer on top of the Visioneer scanner.  I put the Dell D410 on the dining table in its places along with the USB 2.0 hub from the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop, moving the D-Link hub without its power supply to it.  For some reason the D-link hub malfunctions if its power supply is used.  I put the Intel web cam on the Dell Latitude CS, and I put the Logitech USB Professional web cam on the Dell D410.  I also switched the keyboard lights and the headsets.  One can still use the USB external DVD drive on both laptops by moving its USB cable between them.  I also put the Logitech wireless optical USB mouse on the Dell D410, and I put the Logitech PS2 wireless mouse on the Dell Latitude CS.  I put a large brass tray upside down on the oak table for the Dell D410 and its power supply to sit on.   I copied by FTP the server folder contents from the FIC server to the Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer.  I also copied the Music files, and I put them also on their own folder on the hard drive and in the music folder in My Documents, so the Windows Media Player 11 could index them.  I then did a XP Professional ASR backup of the C: drive to the Maxtor external hard drive.  I then did an XP Professional ASR backup from the C: drive on the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop to the Maxtor external hard drive.  I defragmented the C: drive on the Dell D410.   

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.

I went out to my 1 P.M. appointment.  I returned back to my apartment after it.  I threw out the garbage, and I picked up the mail.  I still have not received my October 2009 rent statement from the Greenwich Housing Authority.

I also reinstalled Microsoft Money 2007 Deluxe on the primary Vista computer, and it now starts up a bit faster. 

I will now shut down the Dell D410 and the primary Vista computer.  I will eat an apple, and then I will go to bed.  I have been awake for 25 hours.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/09  Thursday 6:00 A.M.. I finished the backup.  For now I have the Dell D410 setup on top of the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer on the small computer desk to the right of the primary Vista computer.

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Note: <888> 10/22/09  Thursday 5:25 A.M..  I have the Dell Latitude D410 laptop computer configured, and it runs just great.  I have 11 gigabytes of files on the new Seagate 80 gigabyte hard drive.  I am doing the XP Professional Automatic System Recovery backup to the Maxtor external hard drive right now.

When I was having problems earlier in the evening getting the Dell D410 to recognize the USB DVD drive from Windows XP Professional, I was able to fix the problem by installing this download from Dell http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R171887&SystemID=LAT_PNT_PM_D410&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=3601&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=5&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=7&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=233742

I will add the server files and the music files, when I have the time.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/09  Thursday 2:35 A.M..  I have the Dell Latitude D410 laptop mostly configured.  I am just finishing up installing the Office 2007 Professional updates.  I have about a half dozen small programs and drivers to install.  I will then do a Windows XP Automatic System Recovery backup to the Maxtor external hard drive.  Since the laptop does not have a floppy drive, I can not create the System Recovery floppy, but I still would be able to do a restore after an installation.  When I have time, I will put the server folder and some music files on it.  I also need to defragment the hard drive some time in the future.

Underneath the bottom cover for the memory, there is room for another one gigabyte memory chip, so when I get one, I will have two gigabytes of memory in it.

I ate two hot dogs on buns with ketchup and mustard, 1/4th of a 6.3 ounce tube of Pringles sour cream and onion potato chips, a dill pickle slice and watered down punch.

CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/09  Wednesday 6:45 P.M..  I was awake at 3 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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  On the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer with 40 gigabyte Seagate hard drive in it, the CMOS now works, which it would not do with the 80 gigabyte hard drive.  I installed the operating system, and I am now restoring the backup, so it will be the same as it was before but with the smaller hard drive.  I will probably have to install a few updates that have been available since the backup.  I went outside, and I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.  I did not get any mail today.  I chatted with a relative.  I will work on configuring the Dell Latitude D410 laptop.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/21/09  Wednesday 5:55 A.M..  Dell D410 Laptop Drivers & Downloads

I shut down the Dell D410 laptop.  I straightened up the apartment.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good morning.  Partly cloudy and high today of 70 degrees Fahrenheit.  Have a good day.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/21/09  Wednesday 3:45 A.M..  I went to bed after the last note, and I did not eat an apple.  I kept waking up until 9 A.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I then slept 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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with neighbors, and I waited for the mail to arrive.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I then returned back to my apartment.  I waited outside for UPS to arrive chatting with neighbors.  UPS delivered the Dell Latitude D410 computer at 5 P.M..  The power cord that attaches to the power supply was not included, so I went to Radio Shack in Cos Cob, and I bought Enercell™ 6-Ft. AC Power Cord (Black) - RadioShack.com for $7.99 and .48 tax for $8.47 total.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a relative.  I checked the Dell D410, and it booted up, but the Windows XP Professional had not yet been activated.  I took the Seagate 40 gigabyte hard drive out of the Dell D410, and I put in the 80 gigabyte new Seagate hard drive from the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer.  I tried doing a XP Professional Repair with the 80 gigabyte hard drive, but when I activated it, it would say it was not activated, and when I tried to reactivate it a number times after, it was an endless cycle of not being able to long on.

This explains the problem Windows XP Pro Activation loop question (grrrrr) .

I then did a complete new installation with the XP Professional SP3 disk that came with the Dell D410.  This took a while to get to this point, since the external USB DVD drive was malfunctioning.  I tried other drives in it, and I finally was able to get it to work properly with the fourth 12 volt power supply I tried.  The original power supply had burned out on the DVD USB external drive.  Once I had XP Professional SP3 installed and activated, I had to install the Ethernet driver from a pen drive, and I am now just finishing installing the Windows Updates.

The server malfunctioned, so I restored the backup, and I am now installing a few updates.

I guess I will put the Seagate 40 gigabyte hard drive in the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop, and I will then restore its backup, so it will be basically the same setup again. 

I will put the free Microsoft antivirus program on the D410.

 I sitll have to configure it after I get some rest today.  I will also put Office 2007 Professional on it.

Note: <888> 10/20/09  Tuesday 4:45 A.M..  2010 Meeting of the Americas

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I will now shut down the primary Vista computer.  I will eat an apple.  I will then go to bed.  I will be up at noon for my 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/20/09  Tuesday 3:35 A.M..  Dell Latitude D410 9 cell batteries W6617, great deals on Computers Networking on eBay! , but some are not nine cell, this one looks like best deal Dell Latitude D410 Li-ion Battery Type W6617 80WH - eBay (item 120479168165 end time Oct-20-09 11:02:02 PDT) .  CIO

You can usually search www.ebay.com for various more obscure computer parts. CIO

Note: <888> 10/20/09  Tuesday 2:55 A.M..  I don't want to bring up Product Activation on the Dell Latitude D410, so after looking at this Windows Product Activation - WPA - How Product Activation works in Windows XP and Windows Vista , I figure it is better to leave the original 40 gigabyte hard drive in it.  However, it does come with the Dell restore CDs, which technically might be able to reinstall the operating system on a larger hard drive.  If I used the Seagate Utilities to create a mirror of the 40 gigabyte drive on the new 80 gigabyte Seagate hard drive, it might not work, since they would be different size hard drives and product activation might still come up.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/20/09  Tuesday 2:20 A.M..  At the web site below the Dell D410 laptop with XP Professional COA and without battery and without the 30 day warranty with lose hinges sold $122.50 at the last moment, so I think my purchase last night of $108 was a better deal, since I got the 30 day warranty and good hinges.  I had to pay 6% Connecticut sale tax of a little over $7, since I live in Connecticut, and of course there was the $9.99 shipping.  Thus it cost the buyer about $140, if they are in Connecticut.  My total charges was $124.55 last night, but on early Monday morning, there are not as many people bidding on the internet.   

Although there are cheaper versions possibly available, XP Professional can cost quite a bit Microsoft Windows XP Professional w/SP3 - 1 PC

Of course the specs on the Dell Latitude D410 if one had 2 gigabytes of memory, more than likely would easily run Windows 7.

I could possibly put my new Seagate 80 gigabyte hard drive from the primary Dell Latitude CS in the Dell D410 that I am getting, and use the free copy of partition manager that I downloaded over the weekend, and resize the partition, and put the Windows 7 beta which expires in March 2010 on a second partition.

Batteries for the D410 here run from about $30 for six cells and $78 for nine cells Dell D410 battery, great deals on Computers Networking on eBay!

D410 Docking stations are here Dell D410 docking station, great deals on Computers Networking on eBay!

I am drinking a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and Borden lemon juice.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/20/09  Tuesday 12:40 A.M..   More refurbished Dell laptops with XP Professional eBay Store - Deal Train Mania: Notebooks, Auctions, MP3 Player.  They tend to go up a bit towards the end of the betting.

After the last note, I watched a bit of television including a James Bond movie "For Your Eyes Only".

I ate the other half of the box of Triscuits with olive oil and Rosemary.

I chatted with a relative.  I went to bed about 9:30 A.M..

I woke up at 4 P.M., when a friend called.  The friend had just returned from a cruise.

I had a fund raising telephone call from the Special Olympics at 7 P.M., when I finally got up.

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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.

I brought my shopping cart with me, and I went out, and I went by the Stop and Shop.  I bought two six packs of New York Everything bagels for $2.50 each six pack, a half gallon of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $3, a 12 ounce container of generic honey for $2.49, two 48 ounce containers of Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal for $4.99 each, two 10 packs of Stop and Shop quarts of dried powder milk for $7.99 each 10 pack, three 64 ounce containers of Stop and Shop crangrape juice for $2.50 each, three 64 ounce containers of Stop and Shop cranraspberry juice for $2.50 each , fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.88 for $53.33 total.

I then went by CVS, and I bought two 16 ounce jars of CVS Gold Emblem dry roasted peanuts for $5 both.  I used the bathroom at CVS.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  At the vacant store front on the east of the north entrance of the Greenwich train station, they are having an art sale December 30 to November 1, 2009 of John Lennon paintings to benefit Neighbor to Neighbor the local Christ Church food pantry.  I also noticed Restoration Hardware had sets of Beatles songs on sale.  The uncompleted Ralph Lauren store has this link for jobs whenever they open Ralph Lauren Careers - About.RalphLauren.com .  Of course Ralph Lauren has an outlet in Kittery, Maine The Kittery Outlets Polo Ralph Lauren Factory Store where prices are cheaper.  You could always call them up, and have them ship something you see on their web site to you.

After I finished my walk, I sat out for a while enjoying nothing going on Greenwich Avenue.  I then returned home, and I picked up my mail, and I put away my groceries.  I have two months of www.forbes.com and www.time.com magazines that I have to read sometime soon.

I will now make a three egg omelet with processed cheese and grated parmesan and Romano cheese, along with four strips of fried bacon and a toasted English muffin with olive oil and watered down punch.

I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/19/09  Monday 3:05 A.M..  Dell - Popular Desktop Deals with Windows 7

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Note: <888> 10/19/09  Monday 2:15 A.M..  New Windows 7, New HP Products

Note: <888> 10/19/09  Monday 1:30 A.M..  All, I know is that my friend that passed away recently had been reading an old book recently about old long forgotten secret societies.  Since he was a scholar and very secretive, I do not know what book it was or where he might have found it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/19/09  Monday 12:30 A.M..  I put away the laundry.  I will now make and eat the same London Broil dinner that I have been eating recently.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/18/09  Sunday 11:30 P.M..  Rain cuts dog show short - Greenwich Time

Affordable housing battle looms in Byram - Greenwich Time

www.cvs.com vitamins and supplements are buy one get one free this week.

Mostly sunny tomorrow with a high of 53 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/18/09  Sunday 11:10 P.M..  I have 35 minutes to on the dry cycle.  The building custodian in the building warming up.  It looks like he is on emergency night call for the Greenwich Housing Authority. 

Hurricane RICK 5 day tracking Pacific  CIO

Note: <888> 10/18/09  Sunday 10:45 P.M..  I watched some television after the last note.  I ate half a 8.5 ounce box of Rosemary and Olive oil triscuits.  I woke up at 6 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with two relatives.  I watched some television.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have five minutes to go until the dry cycle.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/18/09  Sunday 3:15 A.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Rain today and a high of 43 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/18/09: 

Note: <888> 10/18/09  Sunday 2:45 A.M..  I ate the rest of the can of mixed nuts.

Note: <888> 10/18/09  Sunday 1:35 A.M..  I ran the cleaning cycle on the EpsonStylus C120 inkjet printer, and it is new also, and it prints out just fine.  The HP Photosmart 1000 is an older printer, and it is out of ink, and the cleaning cycle only shows red ink left.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/18/09  Sunday 1:25 A.M..  On the HP C4280 Photo printer, the test print out showed that it had irregular color.  Since I have not used it many times, I knew it had nearly full ink cartridges.  The HP C4280 Photo printer does not have a cleaning cycle.  I took out both ink cartridges, and I put a few drops of Ronson lighter fluid on each print head, and I left them sit for a few minutes, and then I wiped them with a cotton swab que tip.  I did this three times for each cartridge and dried the area around the print head with a paper towel without touch the print head, and then I put them back in the printer. 

I then ran the alignment process with the printer turned on by pressing the Power and the Cancel buttons simultaneously a few seconds, and then pressing blue, green, and grey buttons in that order, and then by pressing the green or the grey button, I chose Reset Menu, and I pressed the green button for OK and then I chose Full Partial Reset, and I chose the Green OK button again.  I then went through the automatic alignment process.  I then printed out a couple of test prints of a small photo of Prince Charles 60th birthday which has a bit of color and then I went through the alignment process a second time, and it now seems to print out just fine.  I guess since I had not done test print outs since about May 2009, the printer got clogged.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/17/09  Saturday 11:45 P.M..  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Bulkie roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips, a dill pickle slice and watered down passion punch.  I cleaned the EpsonStylus Color 880 printer by running its cleaning cycle recently, but the color is a bit fuzzy, but I only use it for black and white for envelopes anyway.  I will now run the cleaning cycles or test print on the HP C4280 photo printer and the EpsonStylus C120 inkjet printers and possibly the HP Photosmart 1000 which I think is out of color ink.  I do not use the color inkjet printers very much.  I have a new spare HP C4280 that I got for $30 and a new Canon Pixma IP2600 refurbished that I got for $15 which is cheaper than what new cartridges would have cost.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/17/09  Saturday 10:35 P.M..  My total construction experience is somewhat limited.  My family used to build new houses, so I would watch their progress.  One summer in 1966, I framed about 1/4th of a house on Baldwin Farms south that we later moved into.  I once built a dog house for our German Shepard in New Canaan, Connecticut that had a removable roof, so one could hoist it out of the basement into seperate pieces.  I took shop at Greenwich Country Day for three years, so I made some furniture.  In Nantucket in the summer of 1978, I worked with my recently diseased friend removing many layers of lead paint from the second oldest house in Nantucket on Lincoln Avenue across Tom Brokaw's house.  We covered the bare wood with white Epoxy paint from the St. Louis paint company.  I also repainted the eves on Admiral Halsey's small Cape Cod house on the Polpis road in Nantucket in the fall of 1983. 

When I built the garage apartment in Plandome Manor, Long Island from April 1982 to February 1983, I used either the Reader's Digest Home Improvement book or the Better Homes and Gardens home improvement book that we got at the Rickels home improvement center in Glen Cove, Long Island to figure out how to do it. 

I use to do a bit of maintenance around the family houses.  Recently I have only been doing electrical improvements as they relate to computers http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm .  I recall removing some interior partition walls on the house on Cornelia Drive here in Greenwich, Connecticut. 

I think on the farm in Knollwood, Illinois, I once rebuilt the front steps.  My recently diseased friend and I watched the demolition work on the Casa Marina down in Key West, Florida back in the winter of 1978, but we did not do any work ourselves.  We just stayed there keeping an eye on the place.  We knew Chris Ray the head contractor from the End of the Road construction company.

I recall in the summer of 1970, I worked at Polaroid's Route 128 manufacturing plant shoveling gravel around a chemical tank farm, and cleaning up around the construction crews, and laying the concrete foundation for a small nuclear reactor.  During that same summer, I also did demolition work on remodeling the old Howard Chocolate Factory by Commercial Wharf in Boston into Dom's restaurant and apartments above.

I think I also worked about a month building a shop near Main Street in Nantucket in the spring of 1979 with my recently diseased friend. 

I use to watch them doing the steel work at the World Center late at night in the early 1970s, when they were building it too. 

Since I have severe arthritis, I have not tried construction, since I left Nantucket in December 1983 other than building the opening and steps from the main house to the garage apartment in Plandome Manor, Long Island about 1986 which took a couple of weeks.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/17/09  Saturday 9:45 P.M..    I woke up while sleeping, and I ate 75% of a 10 ounce can of CVS premium mixed nuts.  I woke up at 5 P.M., when a friend 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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative of the friend that had recently passed away.  Apparently the friend had gone from 125 pounds to 165 pounds eating pizza.  He was doing environmental work for the last nine years.  They are creating a memorial fund at Friends Academy in Locust Valley, New York with old maps as the project.  The memorial service for his family was held this past Thursday, and they all seem to have gone their separate ways.

I discussed the garage apartment.  I feel the old window fan  in the garage apartment attic should be taken out, since it is probably worn out and would be an electrical hazard.  The doors to the attic summer ventilation opening should be closed for the winter.  The relative wanted to know how to turn on the outside spot light by the tool shed.  From what I can recall, there was a switch for it by the bedroom closet door, and if not there might be a switch inside on the right side of the outside tool closet.  The relative mentioned that the floor was buckling, and I said the friend that oversaw the project did not want to use waterproof half inch plywood, and only the kitchen and the bathroom had waterproof half inch plywood.  The living room and bedroom had 5/8th inch thick particle board which if it gets wet will crumble.  I put in the living room and bedroom baseboards about .75 inch above the floor, so in the future it would be easier to replace the particle board if need be. 

It was also mentioned that the terracotta tiles on the roof were leaking.  I mentioned the garage apartment ceiling sheet rock was there when I built the garage apartment, and I reinforced the 3/8th inch thick sheet rock with more sheet rock screws into the roof joists, and then I spread about four 50 pound pales of wall board compound over the entire ceiling with a rough ceiling roller adding more weight about 200 pounds to the ceiling. 

Also the bleeder valve on the old 25 foot cast iron radiator that ran the east end of the window wall of the apartment should probably be replaced.  I put in a new one back in 1983, and Wright Brothers hardware store in Manhasset, Long Island had it in stock.

There was also a window fan in the sub floor opening from the main house basement to the bathroom sub flooring area to blow in warm air in from the main house basement to keep the bathroom pipes from freezing. Since the pipes from the main house into the garage apartment were corroded lead pipes, I ran new copper pipes through the same opening to supply the kitchen and bathroom with water.  There were shut offs on the new copper pipes underneath the bathroom steps from the kitchen to the bathroom.  The steps were on a hinge, so they would open up from back to front. 

With the cast iron radiator in the garage apartment with steam from the main house and with storm windows on the garage windows and foot thick Owens Corning fiberglass in the attic, and a foot thick of insulation on the north wall that I build out where the garage doors use to be and 3.5 inches of Owens Corning fiberglass on the other outside walls, the garage apartment should be perfectly warm in a cold winter.  I put 1.5 inch thick Styrofoam in the between the 2 by 4s in the sub floor to keep it warmer, and I caulked any opening that might cause air leaks. 

There was a about 36 inch by 20 inch opening by the east side entrance door, where a large 18,000 BTU Sear Air Conditioner was installed, and if an air conditioner were still there, it should be covered up with a cover and Styrofoam in the winter.

I chatted with two relatives.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  The was large about the size of a raccoon black and white skunk by the front of my car, so I guess we are still the skunk works out here.  I picked up the mail.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/17/09  Saturday 2:00 A.M..  I watched some television.  Not much seems to be happening.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  High today of 46 degrees Fahrenheit and afternoon rain.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/17/09  Saturday 12:15 A.M..  It’s Official: No Social Security COLA in 2010 - AARP Bulletin Today

Note: <888> 10/16/09  Friday 11:50 P.M..  There are potential alternatives in an emergency for a man to go to the bathroom late at night or in the early morning hours downtown on Greenwich Avenue besides Thataway at the bottom of Greenwich Avenue which closes at 2 A.M. as does I think the Sundown Saloon.

One could try the lower parking area beneath the south side of the train station area or the parking area at the west end of the train station on the north side.  One could try the park area on the west side of the office building across the street.  One could try the back driveway area at the bottom of Greenwich Avenue along side the People's bank construction site.  One could try behind the veterans monument across the street from the senior and the arts center or behind the Board of Education building.  One could try the Greenwich Commons Park just north of there.  One could try the small park behind the Chase bank down the alley along side Saks Fifth Avenue.  One could try down the driveway in back of St. Mary's, but one might wake up the dogs inside.  One could try down the back side of the park across the street from CVS behind the Japanese restaurant.  One could try the bushes along the labyrinth of walkways around the Pickwick Plaza.  One could try the west side lawn the Presbyterian Church, and I think the Barcelona cafe just west of the top of Greenwich Avenue might be opened until just before 2 A.M..  One could try the alley way on the west side of the FedEx Plaza just west of Greenwich Avenue or the bushes around the parking lot of the Greenwich Library or the bushes around the parking area at the Bank of New just east of Greenwich Avenue, and the east side of Greenwich Avenue has parking areas behind it that run as far south as the new police station.  Also a block east of Greenwich Avenue across the street from the Y.M.C.A. is the 24 hour diner.  However, I do think they should have put public bathrooms in the new public safety building.  I do think it might be also illegal to go to the bathroom in outside locations, so one might risk a Pissing in Public ticket.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/09  Friday 11:20 P.M..  I chatted with two friends today also.  I could possibly go out for a walk, but I had a 12 ounce glass of watered down punch for dinner and a eight ounce cup of green tea for dinner, so although the bar at Thataway at the bottom of Greenwich Avenue has a bathroom, I would probably have to go to the bathroom three times, so I would be left without any place to go to the bathroom at this hour of the night, so thus I guess I will not be going out for a walk.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/16/09  Friday 10:10 P.M..  I woke up at noon.  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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 4 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I watered the plants.  I threw out the old periodical literature and the garbage.  I picked up the mail.  The apartment was 68 degrees Fahrenheit inside, and I turned on the heat briefly to take the dampness off, and then I set the living room thermostat at 68 degrees Fahrenheit and the bedroom thermostat at 60 degrees Fahrenheit.  I turned on the two fans to blow the heat around the apartment a bit instead of letting it rise into the air space above the drop ceilings.  Of course, when the lights are turned on that puts out 3 to 5 degrees of heat too. 

The building custodian's Dell laptop was not working properly.  I brought it up to my apartment, and I did a safe boot, and I ran "msconfig", and I disabled all of the startup programs except the AVG antivirus.  Internet Explorer in a regular boot up would open up over a dozen copies endlessly from some obscure homepage site, so in safe boot, I set its homepage to www.google.com .  I uninstalled and reinstalled the Linksys wireless card drivers and program.  It is working just fine.  I tried it downstairs in the community room, and it still would not go online.  The building custodian was still here.  The LAN cable plugged into the Cable modem in the custodian's office was not pushed in all of the way, and the LAN cable into the Linksys wireless router was plugged into the wrong port, so I plugged it into the correct port, so now the custodian's Dell laptop works just fine, and the wireless in the building at that location works just fine.  I chatted with two neighbors.

I will now make and the eat the same London Broil dinner as two nights ago.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/16/09  Friday 2:10 A.M..  I watched a program on Animal Planet about the Open Ocean and Fish eating Fish.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  High today of 41 degrees Fahrenheit and rain.  CIO 

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Note: <888> 10/15/09  Thursday 11:00 P.M..  The Bosch windshield wipers on the Audi worked just fine in the rain today.  We are suppose to have rain through Monday or later.

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Note: <888> 10/15/09  Thursday 10:20 P.M..  I woke up at 8 P.M..  I watched a bit of television.  I ate two hot dogs on buns with ketchup and mustard, 1/4th of a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS pringle style potato chips, a dill pickle slice and watered down punch.  I will now drink a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/15/09  Thursday 5:15 P.M..  I am a bit tired.  I will now take a nap.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/15/09  Thursday 4:30 P.M..  I woke up at 6 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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I went back to bed until 11 A.M..  I ate an apple  I made the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went to my 2 P.M. Energy Assistance appointment.  After the appointment, I went by the Greenwich Library.  I then returned home, and I chatted with neighbors. 

I will now eat a ham and cheese sandwich with mayonnaise on a bulkie roll with 1/4th of 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringle type potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  CIO

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Note: <888> 10/14/09  Wednesday 11:15 P.M..  I ate the same London Broil dinner as two nights ago.  I have a bottle of www.perrier.com freeze and break in the refrigerator about a week ago, so I guess Perrier freezes at a higher temperature than water.  I stopped by the Figaro restaurant to tell them that this afternoon.  The bartender waiter asked me if I wanted a drink, and I told him I do not drink alcohol.  He told me he was from New York, and I told him when I lived in New York City, Surrey Liquors on Madison Avenue and 74th street on the northeast corner use to have a large assortment of French wines and liquors, since they were a couple of blocks east of the French consulate. 

It is 70 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment, but since it is suppose to go down to 37 degrees Fahrenheit this morning with a high of 43 degrees Fahrenheit and rain tomorrow, I closed the right living room window for the winter. 

I also put one of the DeLonghi oil filled radiators behind my primary computer chair, and I put the other one to the left of the Abit computer to the right of dining table eating place near the Ethan Allen recliner.  They are plugged in and ready to use if needed.  I usually put them on medium and 4, when I use them.  I put my summer walking shorts in the white bedroom bureau.  I put my Hawaii jams in the underwear drawer in the living room.  I put out my long underwear bottoms on the hook to the right of the bedroom door entrance.  I put the two L.L. Bean red union suits on plastic hangers hanging from the open bathroom door.  I still have two new pairs that I have not yet opened up.  I took the pink and green quilt off the bed in the bedroom, and I stored it in a plastic bag in the bedroom closet.  I took off the blue summer blanket.  I put the white electric blanket on the bed, and I plugged it in with its thermostat on the right side of the bed as one looks at it.  I put the colonial beige comforter on the bed.  I put the blue comforter on the end of the bed. I put the blue summer blanket on top of that.  I put the two www.army.mil extreme cold weather to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit sleeping bags on either end of the living room sofa.  I put the black and the white check pattern comforters on the back of the living room sofa.  I also left the blue and grey throw and the orange and yellow throw on the back of the sofa.  I also put the old light blue electric blanket on the back of the sofa and the white light weight blanket on the back of the sofa.  I am thus ready for colder weather and no heat at lower costs and savings this winter if need be.  I will use the electric lights less at night, until I need them to warm up the apartment a little bit more.  I saw someone that looked like http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm downtown today getting into a chauffeured car, so maybe he has someone that looks like him, but a lot of people in Europe look like him.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/14/09  Wednesday 8:25 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  I went by the central Greenwich, Connecticut post office, and I bought sixteen 2 cent stamps for 32 cents total.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a few locals.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store to chat about the price of tea in China.  I noticed that the facade of CVS on Greenwich Avenue has been repainted.  I did not go inside to see if they are finished with the interior painting or not.  Across from them in front of the modern furniture store, there is group of trees running south that have lots of birds in them at certain times of the day, and when I hear the birds, I do not walked underneath the trees they are in to avoid ending up with bird crap on one's head.  I finished my walk, and I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and there are still about a dozen fishermen down there trying to catch a fish.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with some of the staff.  I then returned home, and I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up my mail.  A Greenwich Housing Authority official here doing a survey as to whether, I would want to move to newer public housing if they built it here, and I told them I would probably want to, if they moved me, since it would be warmer and probably more spacious.  I received two telemarketing survey calls, and I told them to take my name off the list.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/14/09  Wednesday 3:05 P.M..  I woke up at 11 A.M., when the NOAA weather radio test went off.

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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.

I chatted with a relative.  The Microsoft Money 2007 September 2009 Income versus Spending report was not received my a relative, because either HP fax machine needs to have its cleaning cycle run or have its ink cartridges replaced.  I now have a copy ready to mail.

I have a afternoon appointment tomorrow afternoon that can not be changed for my NEON Energy Assistance Application, which is one of the reasons I will not be able to attend the Memorial Service tomorrow for a friend that recently passed away.  I have the paper work ready for the appointment.

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It was 68 degrees Fahrenheit in the apartment when I woke up, so although it is a bit cooler, I like the fresh air, so I will wait until it gets a bit colder before closing the apartment window.

I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower and clean up, and I will go out for a walk.   CIO 

Note: <888> 10/14/09  Wednesday 3:35 A.M..  Margaret Thatcher (prime minister of United Kingdom) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

When I was sitting in front of the Senior and the Arts center about 8:45 P.M. this past evening, I saw a white male about 6 feet tall walking up the street about age 30 and 170 pounds.  He was wearing all dark tight clothes and a dark knit cap.  Some kids in front of Starbucks heckled him, and he then yelled back at them, and he stood in front of the Senior and the Arts center briefly and then crossed the street and worked his way through the Board of Education Parking lot and down in front of the Board of Education to the south and disappeared.  In that type of clothing with a dark knit cap on not too cold of a night, he could have been a burglar, but I thought the individual might be undercover observing the kids.

I ate a 9 ounce can of CVS honey almonds with a glass of watered down punch.

Sunny today with a high of 52 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good day.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/14/09  Wednesday 2:00 A.M..  I woke up at 3 P.M., when the mail person delivered the order for IAVCEI Volcanoes 2010 Wall Calendar | CALENDARS.COM for $13.99 and Volcanoes 2010 Wall Calendar | CALENDARS.COM for $13.99 and Horse Lovers 2010 Wall Calendar | CALENDARS.COM for $6.99 less 15% off and $1 shipping on $25 order with coupon code " EM0909DS1" for $31.77 total.  I did not open the box, and I put it on top of the right hallway bookcase.

I went back to bed until 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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with two relatives.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I faxed my September 2009 Microsoft Money 2007 Income Versus Spending report to an interested relative.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I walked the  entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. 

I viewed CARRIAGE HOUSE MOTORS Greenwich Ct. .  They have an old Lincoln Continental, Cadillac convertible, and a new Rolls Royce Limousine in the window along with other imported cars.

I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two boxes of six 1.2 ounce Kashi trail mix bars for $3 each, two 3 ounce bottles of Gold Emblem garlic powder for .99 each, two 1.06 ounce Gold Emblem Italian spices for .99, and a 2.5 bottle of Gold Emblem ground black pepper for .99 for $10.95 total.  I then ate a Kashi trail mix bar further up Greenwich Avenue.  I noticed they were painting CVS on the inside and outside.  I finished my walk.  I then returned to my apartment.  I brought up the mail. I then installed all of the updates on all of the partitions on all of the computers which took a while.

I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a Bulkie roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 5.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips, a dill pickle slice and watered down passion punch.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/13/09  Tuesday 6:00 A.M..  I ate an apple.

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Note: <888> 10/13/09  Tuesday 1:30 A.M..  I put my most recent Kennebunkport, Maine photos in my recent photo album. 

Here is one of the pictures of myself http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-kpt-0909.JPG .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/13/09  Tuesday 12:25 A.M..  I cut one of the whole pieces of London Broil in half into about two 11.5 ounce pieces.  I refrigerated the other whole and half piece in Rubbermaid containers.  To cook the London Broil, I put about three tablespoons of olive oil in a regular frying pan, and I heat it over medium high electric burner heat.  Once it is hot, I put the 11.5 ounce piece of London Broil in the frying pan, and I brown it one side, and I flip it, and I season it with garlic powder, ground black pepper, and Italian seasoning generously.  I then two the same on the other side, once it browns.  I continually cook it flipping it every minute for about four minutes each side.  For the last two addional minutes,  I put in about four tablespoons of Kikkoman soy sauce on the meat in the frying pan, and I flip it and continually, until most of the soy sauce is gone in about two minutes.  I then put the frying pan with meat on a heat proof plate to warm it, and after about a minute, I put the meat on the warm plate, and I scrape the remaining juices and seasoning on top of the meat.  Before eating it, I put ground black pepper on it, and I season it with KC Masterpiece barbecue sauce and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce.  I eat it in small bites with a steak knife and fork.  I also made my usual steamed vegetable mixture, which I put olive oil on.  I ate it all with my watered down passion punch.  I also had a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and Borden lemon juice.  After cleaning up the kitchen, which I do after every meal, I threw out the garbage.  Nothing much seems to be happening around here at night anymore with the Obama recession, but I am sure nearby New York City has a bit of activity for those who can afford it and are willing to risk their lives traveling into the unknown of Manhattan through the mysterious boroughs.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/09  Monday 10:35 P.M..  I woke up at 4 P.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought four 90 count  CVS disinfecting wipes for $2.99 each and .72 tax for $12.68 total.  I finished my walk, and I sat out for a while.  I then went by the world famous Greenwich, Connecticut Stop and Shop, and I bought a 32 ounce Stop and Shop self rising frozen four cheese topping pizza for $3.74, a 28 ounce bottle of K.C. Masterpiece original barbeque sauce for $2.99, two top round London Broil for $2.99 a pound for $10.05, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, a 1/4th peck of McIntosh apples for .99 a pound for $2.29, fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.66, broccoli crowns for $1.79 a pound for $1.93 for $25.65 total.  I then returned home.  I put away my groceries.  I put one of the containers of CVS disinfecting wipes to the right side of the kitchen sink and another on top of the JVC television in the bathroom.    I made up a fresh batch of passion punch.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/12/09  Monday 7:20 A.M..  Nino Sechi - Greenwich needs more affordable housing, but Byram not the answer - Greenwich Time.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/09  Monday 7:15 A.M..  It is 40.8 degrees Fahrenheit outside and 72 degrees Fahrenheit inside with the right living room window opened 16 inches and the tower fan blowing the outside air inside, so I guess the building retains a lot of heat, and the lights and computers generate a bit of heat.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/09  Monday 7:15 A.M..  I might have flown Aspen Airlines, when it use to fly to Nantucket in the summer, or I might have just seen it around.  Eastern airlines use to practice landing and taking off at the Nantucket airport, and I used to go to the beach at the end of the runway at Nantucket airport, so I saw them practicing a lot of times.  There use to be a bar next to the Nantucket airport called Preston's, and from what I could figure out, people use to take Magical Mystery Tours and end up at Preston's with the locals.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/09  Monday 6:50 A.M..  I flew down to Ronald Reagan's first inaugural on Braniff airlines with Prince Boni Sadhir the oil minister from Saudi Arabia out of J.F.K., and I flew back on the private Time Magazine jet to Westchester County airport.  I recall also once possibly flying on a Mohawk airlines D.C.3, but I might have just see them around here in the old days.  The www.cia.gov still controls the Evergreen airlines 747 out at J.F.K..  I have been in Toronto airport, so I possibly once flew on Air Canada up to Toronto to visit George Cary, but I was given the Air Canada flight bag by Air Canada by someone that looked like Tony Snowden, when I met him at the Anglican Seminary in Toronto in December 1983.  I took the Amtrak up there and back.  I have been on Provincetown Boston Airline a few times coming and going from Nantucket in the old days.  Andy the baggage handler at Nantucket airport might have learned something about aviation.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/12/09  Monday 6:25 A.M..  As I recall, I flew to Lanzarote from Malaga, Spain on Iberia airlines.  I flew down to Tobago on B.W.I.A.  I flew to St. Thomas on American airlines.  I flew to Nassau on Eastern airlines.  I flew to Bermuda on B.O.A.C..  Of course in the Unites States of America, I frequently flew Pan Am, United, Eastern, American, Continental, and Delta in the old days, before I could no longer afford to travel.  In my youth I flew around a lot on the Monsanto Chemstrand company DC3s and Gulf Streams.  The most dangerous flight I was ever on as I recall was a United flight from Chicago O'Hare to Boston Logan during Christmas time around 1971, and the Boeing 707 was full of www.af.mil personnel, during the Christmas Holidays, and they all went into the crash safety position as we were landing in a snow storm, but the jet made it in safely.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/12/09  Monday 5:50 A.M..  My diseased friend who I should refer to as John and I lived across the street at Putnam Green for two months after my mother married my diseased step father 30 years ago in the summer of 1979.  We moved her furniture to Kennebunkport, Maine to my stepfather's house.  After the lease ran out across the street, we drove up to Cape Code, and decided not to go back out to Nantucket, and we then we by Dartmouth college where we stayed at a fraternity house, and then we drove up to Montreal and toured it, and then across to Toronto, Canada.  We were sleeping in the yellow Subaru at the York University parking lot, when we were awaken by bag pipers celebrating the Victorian Jubilee.  We toured around Toronto, and then we reentered the United States at Detroit, and we visited with my sister and brother in law in Chicago, Illinois.  We sold them John's birthday bicycle he had bought in Greenwich to get it out of the yellow Subaru.  We visited www.lfc.edu and my grandparents again in Champaign, Illinois.  We then drove across country route 70 to Denver and across the Rockies spending the night in a camp ground.  As I recall, we had the tools from that spring in the car, and we sold them in Squaw Valley and Carmel, California.  We stayed in campgrounds along the coast of California.  Around October, I think we returned back east via Interstate 10, and we visited with his sister Daytona to return to this area at Christmas Time.  We got his family a Christmas tree at Troy nursery on North Street in Banksville, New York, and we stayed with his family in Manhasset, Long Island for Christmas.  We also house sat for a couple of weeks in back country Greenwich for the family that owned Burns Security.  I put an air conditioner that I had bought in Fort Lauderdale in the Subaru, but it never worked.  After the holidays, we drove back down to the Florida Keys and then to Daytona, Florida to stay with John's sister and her friend for the winter.  We did some work cutting down dead Palm trees along the Florida coast with a cheap electric chain saw that we had bought.  I latter learned that Palm trees can lose their leaves in the winter and not be dead.  I recall cutting some down some at a Burger Kings somewhere near Stewart, Florida.  We also visited with John's grandmother visiting a friend in Vero Beach, Florida, and as I recall we drove part of the dirt road along Canaveral National seashore.

We did not visit Hurley Haywood at Point De Vidra, since Jimmy Eldert did not like Hurley Haywood.

When we returned north in the spring of 1980, I think we were in Connecticut, New York City and Long Island.

We stayed with John's mother in New York City, and his father in Port Washington, Long Island,  I recall we drove back out to California  visiting with Jimmy Eldert's friends in Santa Cruz, California and the Santa Barbara and Laguna Beach, Malibu and Palo Alto areas selling the Burgundy Volvo I had bought before the trip in Anaheim, California and returning back to New York City via United airlines after election day.  We drove out there from the New York City area via Cape Cod to Montreal to Toronto down the New York State thruway down I-95 to Key West, and I guess across Route 10 to California.  After returning to the New York City area, John's grandmother had the accident, and I stay with the mother in the New York City apartment, and in December 1980, I made the trip to Frankfurt, Germany, and I also went down to Ronald Reagan's inaugural in Washington D.C. in January 1981.  I also recall using the family town house in New Canaan, Connecticut that winter while relatives were in Bermuda.  In the summer of 1981, I recall being in New York City until I left in February 1982 to go to Key West for the last time, so that was the only time I ever lived in New York City in the summer except briefly in the early summer of 1973.  I also recall refinishing two different basement playrooms at a relative's two different houses in the Philadelphia area and one time was during Three Mile Island, when I did not know it was going on.  Thus after the garage apartment in Long Island, the trip to Oslo, Norway with side trips to the Tampa, Florida and New Haven, Connecticut area and the season in Nantucket and side trips to Vero Beach, Kennebunkport, Toronto and Manhattan, I returned back to Greenwich, Connecticut in December 1983, and I have been here as a resident since then.

I did make a trip to Kennebunkport, Maine in July 1980, and I then flew from this area on my own out to California to Laguna Beach I think on United Airlines and Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara areas, and I also spent a week to 10 days at the Hyatt Hotel in Maui when the American Bar Association and the American District Attorneys were having a convention, and I returned back to New York City on Belgium Sabena airlines.  I recall flying to Hawaii from Las Angeles airport on United airlines and using a local flight to and from Maui and then returning from Hawaii on World Airways to San Jose.  I flew to Germany on Capitol airlines, and I flew to Oslo on S.A.S.  I flew again to Germany around 1989 on Lufthansa going to Innsbruck eventually, and I flew the Paris for the Albertville Olympics on T.W.A. as I recall.  I originally flew to Paris on January 1972 on T.W.A. from Boston and back from Athens, Greece to Boston on T.W.A.  There are probably some people here that flew back out here with John and myself on our last trip back from California back in November 1980 on United Airlines.  With the New York City airports in this area, there are probably a lot of airline people on Long Island, but as far as I know besides Canada, John was never out of the country, although his sister worked for China airlines since 1980.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/09  Monday 4:10 A.M..  In April 1977, when I finally returned to Nantucket after visiting with Jimmy Eldert's friends at the University of New Hampshire and with a side trip to Dartmouth College and Exeter, New Hampshire, I first worked opening sea scallops for about a month which paid about $40 for a five gallon pail of opened Sea Scallops.  Then I helped open the Sail Loft restaurant, when I worked for a short period until the regular crew returned.  Then I helped open up Moore family bar across from the fire station.  I then worked at the Nantucket bakery.  I then worked at Henry's bakery, and I finally worked at the Gordon Folger Hotel as a pot scrubber.  I was paid minimum wage of $2.15 an hour, and it cost $5 a day to stay at Mrs. Florence Frances' guest house in a bed in a common room on India Street.  I think towards the end of the summer I started working at the Languedoc restaurant, and the following Summer in 1978, I worked at the Gordon Folger again as a pot scrubber, then briefly as a dishwasher at India House and then the rest of the season at the Languedoc restaurant.  By the end of the season I was making about $4 an hour.  I returned briefly to Nantucket with my recently diseased friend in the spring of 1979, when we did some carpentry and painting work on a shop near the top of Main Street.  We then left the island, since not much was going on, and I think we returned to Connecticut and Long Island.  Jimmy Eldert had left Key West, Florida around March 1978 to hitchhike out to California, so we never saw him again in Nantucket.  As I recall he had a blue duffle bag.  We missed him on the first trip to California in the fall of 1978, but we did drive north through Santa Cruz, California on our first trip to San Francisco arriving there on Columbus Day, when the Queen of Spain was there, and all of the San Francisco traffic was shut down, and we explored the waterfront there.  The American Railroad convention was also going on at the Hyatt Embarcadero.  When I returned back to Nantucket around March 1983 after building the garage apartment on Long Island, I worked at the Languedoc after cleaning up their restaurant at Sister Kate's in Stowe, Vermont at the end of the season for a couple of weeks.  By the time, I finally left the Languedoc in November 1983, I was the head dishwasher making $8.75 an hour.  However, both dishwashers and pot scrubbers also had to do the food preparation work and also clean up the restaurant at the end of the night.  I usually was never back at the guest house until 2 to 4 A.M., so I would wake up in time to walk the short distance to the restaurant and eat an omelet and work the lunch shift until about 2:30 P.M. and be back at 4 P.M. for the dinner shift.  Once you do restaurant work, you know it ain't easy.  I rarely took a day off in season.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/09  Monday 3:30 A.M..  When I lived with the family on Long Island's at their small one bedroom apartment on the west side of Manhattan, the mother slept at night and did word processing for Cyrus Vance after he was Jimmy Carter's secretary of state, and I slept on they day bed in the living room.  We had three pets, a Doberman dog that one son leant us, and a white German Shepard that a younger daughter leant us, and a cat which later had a litter of kittens.  I walked the dogs many times particularly in the evening, and I would go out at night and wander around Manhattan when the tenant slept, and I would sleep mostly in the daytime.  The town house the apartment was in was a Sanford White building and it was owned by a family that had the same last name as General William Westmoreland's wife's family, but I do not know if they were related.  The owner of the building and the son also lived there.  The friend that passed away was busy on Long Island helping his grandmother who had an accident, so he was there very infrequently.  The winters that I was there some of the time were 1981 and 1982, when in 1982, it was down to minus 26 degrees Fahrenheit, when in February 1982, I had to leave, and I went back down to Key West, Florida for the last time.  In the period from April 1982 to February 1983, I renovated the mother in law apartment out in the garage on Long Island at minimal cost to help thank them for their hospitality.  However, since I am not a builder or contractor, it was a hard project for me, and I had to take up to 14 Tylenol a day with my arthritis, which is why I never continued the activity after I returned off of Nantucket and back to Greenwich in December 1983.  I do not think I would have been able to handle doing another garage apartment renovation at the other friend's garage apartment in Sands Point, Long Island, since it was a much larger garage.  I also stayed with the family's husband with my friend that passed away at his father's apartment in Port Washington, Long Island and his brother back around 1980, when we mostly watched television, and I did the cooking and cleaning.  My friend claimed they had a computer in the basement, but when I looked in the basement all I saw was a natural gas furnace that kept the house warm.  There was  a dairy store near by, and the Amoco gasoline station nearby sold cheap Marlboro cigarettes.  The nearby A&P store never had many customers, and the food looked quite old and out of date, but that was during Jimmy Carter's recession, but it was a better life than being homeless at the Casa Marina hotel renovation in Key West, Florida, and I think as I recall in the winter of 1979, I was at the sister and her friends apartment with the friend in Daytona Beach, when we mostly ate watered down tomato paste with spaghetti noodles, and we finally got food stamps towards the end of the winter, which when I came back up north, I used some to buy a roast beef at Bonjournos for my mother. In the winter of 1978 after meeting the friend, I think we might have gotten food stamps in Key West, Florida for a month or two.  In the winter of 1977 in Key West, Florida, I was waiting for my unemployment benefits which took six months to come all at one time towards the end of winter in April 1977, and I went from 185 to 125 pounds, and although Jimmy Eldert showed up without money, all I ever got was a can Green Giant corn from the Salvation Army.  I do recall having a charge account at the Herb garden in Key West that I paid off, when I got my unemployment compensation checks.  A friend of mine whose mother was a DuPont cashed the checks for me at the main bank in Key West back then near Mallory Square that had a picture of the state of Florida on its sign.  Once with Jimmy Eldert, I was even arrested at Faustos grocery store in Key West for not paying for a quart of orange juice in the store, when I thought Jimmy paid for it, and he thought I paid for it.  However, they let me go two or three days later, but I had to find Jimmy which took some time, since we did not have modern communications.  As I recall it was a quart of Donald Duck orange juice.  Jimmy Eldert worked at Yogurt stand in 1978 where he made a couple of dollars a day in tips, and he would give John and myself free yogurt.  Jimmy also had a telephone in his apartment, so he could communicate with the outside world. 

In February 1982, when I met John outside of the Case Marina, he was carrying his artist supplies in one of his grandmother's suit cases with travel stickers from around the world, and he was carrying about $1,000 cash U.S., but he quickly lost $400, when he leant a friend some money, and the friend disappeared.  We even hitchhiked up to Marathon, Florida looking for the friend.  I did not have a car down in Florida in the winter of 1978, I had hitchhiked to Key West, Florida from Nantucket.  In October 1978, I bought the $150 yellow Subaru on Nantucket, and it had a Polaroid sticker in the window.  It had come from Dillon, Colorado which I discovered later that winter.  As I recalled the Massachusetts license plates on the Subaru were 141-48K.  All of the license plates in Nantucket ended in K, and I later learned in Williamstown, Massachusetts, all of the license plates ended in K.  Elsewhere in Massachusetts, they have different patterns.  I was insured later in the car by the Rand Insurance agency here in Greenwich, and I think I might have had Allstate, when I left Nantucket.  The license plates were white with red letters.  In the summer of 1978, my diseased friend and I did house painting on Nantucket, and he also worked at the Cumberland Farms store as a cashier at night, while I worked at the Lanquedoc restaurant as a pot scrubber.  I late was later promoted to dishwasher, by the time I finally left for good in November 1983.  I did not work as a waiter which is more profitable, because I did not have the right clothes, and I was curious about kitchen work.  Since in the small kitchen I could water the chefs, but I could never figure out the ingredients.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/12/09  Monday 1:05 A.M..  I put away the laundry.  I also put the clean towels that I use for insulation of the air conditioner underneath the right side rear of the bedroom bed.   I rotated my summer shirts to the far left of the bedroom closet, and I put the winter shirts in the left center of the bedroom closet.  I will now eat the same dinner as the last four or five nights, which will include the last of the cold eye round.  High today of 53 degrees Fahrenheit and mostly cloudy.  I have noticed in my regular walks downtown, there seems to be more unemployed younger people in the area.  Back in 1973, when I was working as a waiter at Boodles restaurant, I was making $50 to a $100 a night, and we even had stock brokers working as waiters and bus boys.  Our most frequent customers with good tips were medical personnel from the Greenwich Hospital.  The kitchen staff were all Chinese.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/11/09  Sunday 11:40 P.M..  I woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a relative twice and a friend.  I called up a relative of the friend that passed away, and I told them I would not be able to make it out to the funeral this Thursday on Long Island. 

The friend that passed away had his own web site Open City and its Natural Enemies .

I chatted with a friend and a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with another friend for a quite a while.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have 35 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  CIO   

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/11/09: 

Note: <888> 10/11/09  Sunday 5:40 A.M..  Today is suppose to be mostly sunny and a high of 62 degrees Fahrenheit.  Thurs here it is suppose to be cloudy and a high of 50 degrees Fahrenheit.  This Thursday on the north shore of Long Island, there are suppose to be a few showers and a high of 53 degrees Fahrenheit.

Also since my 12 year Audi is a very important part of my normal routine, I am very afraid of doing anything that might put it at risk that might cause me to lose or damage the Audi.

Note: <888> 10/11/09  Sunday 3:55 A.M..  If I am on a day schedule this Thursday, Google Maps says it is only 31 miles out to the house in Long Island, but there is usually a lot of traffic, so it frequently takes over an hour.  The last time I crossed whatever bridge it is, I think there was a $4 toll each way.  Google Maps does not give the name of the bridge, but I think it is the Tapan Zee bridge, but it might be the Whitestone Bridge.  I printed out the directions.

I currently weigh 206 pounds, and the only suit that just barely fits me is the Swedish double breasted black pin stripe suit that I bought about five years ago at the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop for $10, but the pants are particularly tight.  I have a pair of waist 40 length 30 black wool L.L. Bean trousers that are tight that I can fit into, that would go with a blue blazer which I have several of.  My current waist size is 46 inches.  I have two other double breasted suit jackets without the pants that fit me fine.  I also have a new blue Oxford shirt and dark tie.  I have a fairly good pair of black Rockport shoes that need polishing.  I doubt if it will be cold, but the black Chesterfield overcoat really no long fits me any more, but I feel as I get older, I might lose weight, so I have kept it. 

I sometimes feel like I am still in Greenwich, China as opposed to Greenwich, Connecticut.  I have not been to the house out in Long Island in about 23 years when I built a connection doorway from the main house to the garage apartment, but Google maps refreshed my memory about how to get there.  I no longer do construction, but I know personal computers after 20 years. 

However, the family out there are so old guard, I feel like I am going back into the Duke of Windsor's time versus the more modern times here.  From what I know I have to see how my biological clock responds to the cooler temperature now in the apartment to see if sooner or later this week, I can get back on a day schedule.  The only thing I have to do this upcoming week is to pay my rent.  I can afford to travel out there, but I can not afford to do anything else.   The funeral home is near the house, so I think I should be able to follow them all right.  There are a lot of private members of the family concerned along with a more international group that were worldwide travelers.  I also have to see how much physical energy I have and how I feel as Thursday approaches.  I generally only drive from Byram, Connecticut to downtown Greenwich, Connecticut a distance of about 2 miles, and then I take a walk and do errands.  I have never had enough funds in my experience in the New York area since 1961 to explore it too much, so I know my way to certain destinations in this area, but I frequently worry about getting lost or disorientated went I travel off my normal routine.  I first ended up in South Florida in September 1976, when I left the family house here in Greenwich, Connecticut to go out to get a can of frozen orange juice at the A&P on West Putnam Avenue, and the next thing I knew two days later I was on Fort Lauderdale, Florida beach in my 1966 blue Chevrolet 4 door sedan Biscayne, but I am not quite sure what caused me to leave on the spur of the moment without telling anyone or preparing.  I did have my belonging in the cars, since I had thinking about going back to Nantucket.  Possibly I got too cold, and I ran south in a fit of panic.  Also the memorial service is suppose to be two hours, and with my weak bladder, I might have to go to the bathroom up to three times.  I still have to chat with a friend whom also might be there.  The family has indicated to me, they want me to show up, so I will do my best to make it out there. 

Part of my disability is that I can not control my sleeping pattern.  I tend to be awake whenever I am awake and fall asleep, whenever I am tired, and although I only drink one cup of coffee and a cup of green tea a day, I frequently sometimes in overly rested, so I can not sleep, and then when I become tired, I fall asleep.

One of the reasons that I have most always lived by myself, and I have a hard time sleeping is that I suffer from sleep disorder caused by loud snoring, so I frequently wake up many times during the sleep period, and I do not get a good night's or day's sleep until I am totally tired.  I once read that one can prop up the bottom end of the mattress which will help one sleep better, but I just generally bury my face in the pillows to try to sleep better.

Frequently when people wake me up during the sleep period with telephone calls, I do not even know what I am talking about, and I say the first thing that comes to my mind from the dream state.  Recently I have been sleeping 10 to 12 hours a day, and it takes me about three hours to go through my routines after I wake up, so that only leave me 9 to 11 hours time in the awake period for other activities.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/11/09  Sunday 12:40 A.M..  I chatted with somebody up in Canada about recent events.  I woke up last night, and I ate 2/3rds of a 9.5 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.  I went back to bed until 11 A.M., when I had a telephone call from a relative of the friend that passed away recently.  I will try to make it out to the house on Long Island by noon this coming Thursday October 15, 2009 for the funeral service later on at the funeral home.  I am currently on a night schedule, so I will some how have to get back on a daytime schedule.  I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed until 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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with two relatives.  I watered the plants.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up the mail.  I filled out the form and mailed it in the mail room downstairs for Connecticut emergency energy assistance in the winter.  That just guarantees, they will not cut off the electricity if something happens financially.  I opened up the right living room window about 16 inches, since it was 82 degrees Fahrenheit in the living room.  It is now 76 degrees in the apartment which is more comfortable.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I stopped by CVS at closing, and I bought four regular CVS 5.3 ounce Pringles type potato chips and one sour cream and onion for $1 each, and three for $10 of CVS 9 ounce honey coated almonds for $15 total.  I noticed French Sole, Greenwich, Connecticut is opening a store on the north side of St. Mary's.  I sat out for a while.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf Station, and I bought $7 of self service premium gasoline for $3.079 a gallon for 2.272 gallons for 28.1 miles per gallon driving since this past Wednesday at odometer reading of 64995 miles for 12.368 miles per gallon in local driving.  I cleaned the outside car windows.  I returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor, and I showed the neighbor the few minor changes in the apartment, since he had last seen it. 

I will now make and eat the same dinner as the last few nights.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/10/09  Saturday 2:25 A.M..  I watched the movie, "The Boys from Brazil".   I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Partly cloudy and a high of 64 degrees Fahrenheit today.   I will now eat an apple, and I will go to bed soon.  Despite the recent distressful news, I still think it is important to get ready for another bitter severe cold winter, and there will be plenty of time to collect out thoughts in the future.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/10/09  Saturday 12:05 A.M..  When I use to travel around America many years ago, I saw a lot of live stock and dairy cows and a lot of dairy people.  I was reminded by a local member of our neighborhood watch about something I forgot that I heard him talking about on his wireless telephone, and that is not to piss on an electric fence.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/09/09  Friday 11:35 P.M..  BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Mammoth-killing comet questioned

The Glenlivet Society - WhiskyFest, New York

Note: <888> 10/09/09  Friday 9:40 P.M..  I woke up last night, and I ate a 10 ounce can of CVS mixed nuts.  I finally woke up at 9 A.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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, 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 outside, and I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with neighbors.  I toured the empty apartment overlooking the baseball field that has been recently vacated.  However, it is a very expensive apartment to heat in the winter and costs $400 to $500 a month to heat according to the previous tenants.  I waited around for the mail to arrive, and I chatted with neighbors.  The building custodian wanted some help with a laptop, but I could not get it going, although it said it was online with wireless.  I finally went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop, and I chatted with staff.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I toured CVS.  I stopped by the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greeenwich Avenue.  I stopped in, and I browsed the new AT&T store.  I chatted with a cosmetics sales lady.  I gave a young shop girl from Miami a cigarette light.  I toured the Fuji camera store and their clearance bin.  After my walk, I sat out in the Greenwich Common.  At 5 P.M., everyone disappeared like they had more important matters.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and there were about three dozen Hispanic fishermen enjoying the waterfront.  I then drove through Bruce Park.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a reference librarian.  I saw an old familiar face that I had not seen in a while.  I then returned home, and I chatted with neighbors.  I picked up the mail.  The rent from the Greenwich Housing Authority still has not arrived yet.  I chatted with two relatives.  I ate the same dinner that I have eating recently.  I chatted with a friend out on Nantucket to let them know about John Bolton.

Believe it or not after all of the years that I knew John Bolton, he was so private that myself even as a professional photographer, I did not have a photograph of him.

Note: <888> 10/09/09  Friday 1:05 A.M..  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good morning.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/08/09  Thursday 11:50 P.M..  I ate 2/3rds of a 10 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds when I woke up during the night.  I woke up at 10 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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, 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 out, and I went to a 1 P.M. appointment.  I then returned home.  I chatted with neighbors.  The building custodian put away my air conditioner in storage.  I picked up the mail.  I ate the rest of the can of almonds.  I took a nap from 3 P.M. to 5 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I received the telephone call about John Bolton.  I chatted with two relatives and a friend.  I ate the same dinner as last night, but without the green tea.  John Bolton's family were very private, so I am not sure if they really would want me to be attending the funeral or not, since I tend to be an overly public person.  Without the air conditioning it is 79 degrees Fahrenheit in my apartment with heat generated by the afternoon sun and electric energy saving lights, but based on experience I am sure it will get colder in here in a week or two.

Although I met John Bolton on a cold winter's day outside the Cass Marina Key West Hotel Resorts & Florida Keys Beach Accommodations - Casa Marina Resort Key West in Key West, Florida in February 1978, when he offered me a Marlboro, when I had quit smoking, which got me smoking again.  He originally told me he was the architect of the hotel, however in our travels up north and living together up north, we dealt with a lot of extreme cold weather including the minus 26 degrees Fahrenheit in New York City in February 1982, driving through a blizzard through the Rocky mountains in December 1978, and once I remember taking the train out to New Canaan, and the train stopped in Darien, since the New Canaan line had quit running, and we walked from the Darien train station to the apartment by the New Canaan police station in sub zero weather without much winter clothing with a long line of Land Rovers passing us, and none of them gave us a ride when we were hitchhiking in that cold weather.  John's grandmother had a picture of the Trapp family lodge in Austria in her house in Long Island, and he frequently was interested in the Summer Home - Bolton Valley.  Since John did not chat with me much in the last couple of decades, all I knew was he was doing was environmental work.

Note: <888> 10/08/09  Thursday 10:55 P.M..  I had sad news today that a good friend passed away unexpectedly DIVERSITY- Anti Merit? .  He will be missed by his family and colleagues.  I had not seen John in about five years, since he showed up one August evening about five years ago in a red T-Shirt that said United States Embassy Thailand.  I chatted with him about six months ago.  He mentioned he was using the internet, but most of his time was spent reading books, and he was not interested in what I had been doing recently.  I might be attending a funeral out on Long Island in the near future if a friend can drive me out, or possibly I can risk driving myself in all of the traffic.  It is not like the old days, when one could drive from Long Island to Connecticut without much traffic, there is so much traffic anymore, I do not consider myself safe to drive on the busy highways much anymore, but I have another friend that drives a lot, and might be able to drive me out there.  Quite frankly when one looks at a computer monitor for 20 years, one is not as sharp on the highway.  I will probably get depressed sooner or later, but I will try to maintain my normal work routine.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/08/09  Thursday 12:45 A.M..  Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program

Note: <888> 10/07/09  Wednesday 11:50 P.M..  I was away from my apartment this past September 2009 for 15 days, and I turned off the utilities including the hot water.  According to www.cl-p.com , my September 2009 bill was $151.33.  I also received in my account a $232 Energy Assistance grant, so I have a surplus in the account, but if I used the heat in the winter, it would be over $400 a month, which I can not afford.

The new bill for September 2009 was for 34 days with kWh usage of 762 or 22.41 kWh per day, and the average temperature was 62.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

For September 2008, the bill was $130.44 for 29 days, when I was gone a little bit over two weeks, but I did not turn off the hot water.  It 651 kWh or 22.45 kWh per day, and the average temperature was 66 degrees Fahrenheit.  Thus it was 3.2 degrees Fahrenheit colder in September 2009 than September 2008.  I chatted briefly with www.cl-p.com about my viewpoint.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/07/09  Wednesday 10:55 P.M..  Dinner was delicious.  After dinner, I cleaned the air filters on the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner.  I used my small cart, and I removed the heavy condenser unit from the air conditioner window case, and I wheeled it out into the hallway.  I then removed the two screws that hold the case in place in the window, and I removed the towels from the top of the window that provide insulation, and I opened the window all of the way, and I lifted out the case, and I put it in the hallway.  I labeled both pieces with my name and apartment number.  The building custodian will put them in storage, when he gets around to it.  I put the cart in the back of the Audi, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I removed the Plexiglas from the left side from where the air conditioner was, and I removed the old duct tape.  I also cleaned the window shelf, and I removed the bobby pins that held up the curtain over the air conditioner.  I put the front face plate and filter holder and Plexiglas and in a small zip lock bag with the two case screws and bobby pins underneath the left front side of the bed in the bedroom.  I moved the items from in front of the right living room window, and I opened it a small bit to take out the Oregon Scientific weather station sending unit, and I put in two new fresh AA alkaline batteries and repositioned it clipped onto the screen.   Thus I should have enough battery power for it this winter.  I put the items back on the window shelf including the breakfast tray I use as a stand, so it is setup the way it has been in previous winters.  Thus the apartment is sealed up for the winter.  It is now slightly over 76 degrees in the apartment, so I am not using the primary lights to keep it cooler under the colder temperatures outside cool down the apartment in a week or two. 

Once it gets colder in a month or so, I will put the two U.S. Army www.army.mil extreme cold weather to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit sleeping bags on either end of the sofa, and I will put the two DeLonghi oil filled radiators in the living room, and I will also put out the comforters and blankets on the sofa, and at the same time, I will put the electric blanket and two comforters on the bed in the bedroom and store away the summer quilt.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/07/09  Wednesday 7:30 P.M..  After the last note, I ate a 10 ounce can of CVS mixed nuts before going to bed.  I woke up at 11 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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, 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 chatted with a friend.  I sat out for a while.  I went to my 3 P.M. appointment at the outpatient clinic at the Greenwich Hospital.  I got the follow up on my cholesterol which is down to 230 from 260, but it is still too high.  The doctor put my on 20 mg. Lipton once a day at bed time.  I am also to continue with the Tricor when I wake up in the daytime.  I also got my annual flu shot.    After that, I went by CVS.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I picked up my prescription at CVS.  There were a lot of people out and about on a blustery day.  After my walk, I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two six ounce jars of Gold's hot horseradish for $1.59 each, a 15 ounce bottle of Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce for $4.39, and fresh Chiquita bananas at .69 a pound for .75 for $8.32 total.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I picked up my mail.  The pictures from www.kodakgallery.com arrived, and they look quite nice.  I might put some in frames to display later along with my photo album.  I chatted with a relative.

I will now eat the same meal as last night, but I will have two 7/16th inch thick slices of cold eye round with horseradish and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce on them along with the other items.

Note: <888> 10/07/09  Wednesday 1:25 A.M..  I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer.  It is suppose to rain today with a high of 56 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will eat a few mixed nuts before going to bed, and I will be up around noon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/07/09  Wednesday 12:05 A.M..  A www.dupont.com lawyer was in Greenwich, Connecticut yesterday Biden rallies for Himes in Greenwich - Greenwich Time .

A lawyer from Kenya is suppose to be in Stamford, Connecticut on October 23, 2009 Obama to visit Stamford for Oct. 23 Dodd fundraiser - Greenwich Time .

Alas when you look at www.chase.com , they have lawyers around them from Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP , but the way the local economy is going in the Obama recession, none of them will be finding much spare change on Greenwich Avenue, except for maybe what they steal from the tips cups at www.starbucks.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/06/09  Tuesday 11:10 P.M..  VIPER - Oregon State University

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Note: <888> 10/06/09  Tuesday 9:25 P.M..  Dinner was delicious.  I also had a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and Borden lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/06/09  Tuesday 7:35 P.M..  I mailed the $15 Bosch windshield wiper rebate information in the mail room downstairs.  I put the old windshield wipers in the trunk of the Audi.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I gave the neighbor about a half dozen cigarettes since the neighbor was out of cigarettes. 

I will now cook the top eye round of beef.  The way I cook the eye round is that I put it on a small roasting rack on a small roasting pan that can fit in the Sharp convection oven.  I season it all around with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, and I covered it all with barbecue sauce.  This time I will use KC Masterpiece original barbecue sauce.  I then bake it in the Sharp convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 43 minutes.  I let it stand outside of the oven after that for five minutes, and then I carve with a serrated carving knife on a carving board two half inch thick slices that I eat with some of the juice.  I then refrigerate the rest in a Rubbermaid container, and I eat about two 3/8th inch thick slices cold for the rest of the eye round, and I put horse radish and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce on it.  I will eat it with my steamed half inch potato cubes, and baby carrots, and broccoli crowns that I steam for 15 minutes on medium high electric burner heat.  I eat the vegetables with a little bit of olive oil on it.  I will eat it all with a glass of watered down punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/06/09  Tuesday 6:25 P.M..  I chatted with neighbors.  The new Bosch windshield wipers arrived via UPS, and I installed them on the Audi.  I will now fill out the $15 rebate information, and get it ready to mail.  I will store the old ones in the new packaging in the trunk.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/06/09  Tuesday 4:35 P.M..  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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I sat outside chatting with neighbors.  I went out, and I went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I picked up two prescriptions.  I then went to my 3 P.M..  I returned home, and I picked up my mail.  I still have not received my rent statement from the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I am waiting for UPS to deliver the Bosch windshield wipers for the Audi.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/06/09  Tuesday 2:15 A.M..  Bertelsmann Billionaire Dies, Aged 88 - Forbes.com

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Note: <888> 10/06/09  Tuesday 12:05 A.M..  I reheated and ate the rest of the beef stew, which I ate with a glass of watered down punch.  I will drink a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and Borden lemon juice shortly.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/05/09  Monday 11:00 P.M..  I woke up while sleeping, and I ate half of a 9 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.   I woke up again, when my order from www.ordersmokesdirect.com for five cartons of King Mountain Ultra Lights 100s cigarettes arrived.  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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 4 P.M.. 

UPS delivered the snow boots.  They fit just fine.  I put them in the left living room closet on the floor.  I ate some of the beef stew with watered down punch.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the shipping boxes.  I went out, and I went downtown.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I checked to see if they had found my missing reading glasses case, but they had not found it at the lost and found at the information desk.  I read the Greenwich Time.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  Peter Tesei's republican first selectman campaign office on Railroad Avenue was quite busy.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought three 10 ounce cans of CVS deluxe mixed nuts without peanuts for $10 all.  While downtown, I noticed they were having a training session at the new Belgium communal table bakery in the new building on lower Greenwich Avenue on the west side of the street.  They look like they might be opened tomorrow.  Of course the new AT&T store is suppose to open tomorrow too.  I finished my walk, and I sat out for a while.  I then went by the A&P Fresh, and I bought a 38 ounce bag of Eight O'clock Hazelnut coffee beans for $14.99, a five pound bag of Maine potatoes for $2.99, a half gallon of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $2, and two 15 ounce bottles of Kikkoman soy sauce for $3.09 each for $27.16 total.

I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf station, and I bought $7.25 of self service premium for $3.119 a gallon for 2.326 gallons for 25.3 miles driving since last Wednesday at odometer reading of 64966 miles for 10.877 miles per gallon driving in mostly local traffic.  I then returned home, and I brought in my groceries, and I put them away, and I also picked up the mail.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate the other half of the 9 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.  I put two new AA alkaline batteries in the primary Vista computer Microsoft 6000 wireless mouse.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow, so I have to be awake about noon.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/05/09  Monday 4:40 A.M..  Cisco: ‘In Norway We Trust’ - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Sunny today and a high of 66 degrees Fahrenheit.

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

Note: <888> 10/05/09  Monday 3:45 A.M..  Because of lack of time and higher food prices, I have been cooking simpler recently.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/05/09  Monday 3:35 A.M..  The grocery store circulars that came in the mail this week came with a cover sheet with a new $5 off coupon at Oil Star, if you need an oil and filter change.

Note: <888> 10/05/09  Monday 3:10 A.M..  One person, we met in Tobago was a classmate's from www.lfc.edu brother, and the classmate's father was in charge of the www.af.mil for NATO , and as I recall the brother was living without shelter at the Pigeon Point beach, and he looked like he was going native.  The Pigeon Point beach was a nice beach, but it did have sand flies which were a nuisance.  We also use to body surf at Black's Beach off the Mount Irvine Club, but that was very dangerous with lots of rocky coral that the surf could throw one into and cause harm.

Since I am just getting ready to go into my third winter without using electric heat, so I can afford to pay for computer activity, I know it gets cold here too.

I have four pairs of Two-Layer Union Suit, Men's: Underwear and Accessories at L.L.Bean in red, extra large tall.  I plan to wear two pairs over my leisure clothes when I am in the apartment this winter.  Although they are not suppose to shrink in the dryer, I air dry them, so that usually takes two or three days, when I can not use two of them.  I have plenty of other winter clothes, and I have a reliable heated Audi whose tires hopefully have enough tread for local driving in winter conditions.

Note: <888> 10/05/09  Monday 2:40 A.M.. Alas, I no longer have any Mount Gay Mount Gay Rum rum Official site of Barbados - Welcome to the authentic Caribbean left in my apartment, since I took most of the hard liquor up to Kennebunkport, Maine a few years ago, where it might be used.  I do not drink alcohol anymore for about the last 15 years.  I do have half a fifth of Jack Daniels left and half a 1.5 liter bottle of Smirnoff vodka left along with some inexpensive wine and old beer and mixers.

I think I have only been in Barbados once, and that was on a return flight from Tobago, we stopped in Barbados, and I went to the Duty Free liquor store, and I bought a liter bottle of Johnnie Walker black label scotch for two Barbados dollars or the equivalent of one U.S. dollar, but that would have been in 1970 or 1971, when a dollar was worth more.  I never left the airport, while I was there with my family.  They have sugar mills in Tobago Mt Irvine, so maybe they make rum there too.

The first time there in Tobago 1970, we stayed at a small cottage that the Bishop family rented.  They lived in an old restored sugar mill nearby, and their ancestors had been the island medical doctor.  The second time there, we stay on the Mount Irvine golf course grounds in a rented house from Billy Frasier or Lord Strathalmond and the chairman of the board of www.bp.com was in the house next door to us.  We visited Tobago with relatives of the Pullman family from Chicago, Illinois.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/05/09  Monday 1:45 A.M..  I put a new blue Clorox toilet tank tablet in the toilet tank.

Back in December 1980, when I was able to get a new U.S. Passport at the State Department office at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, when I had a lady standing behind me in line that looked like Queen Elizabeth II also applying for a U.S. passport, I went to Frankfort, Germany on a $100 Capitol airline flight.  While at Rhine Mein airport, I helped a lady that looked like Princess Margaret with two empty turquoise suitcases and she was all dress in turquoise blue feathers, and we went into the Pan AM Clipper Club lounge which I was a member of too.  She said she brought empty suitcases to do some Christmas shopping.  She gave me here card, and it was at an address at Rue St. Michel in Barbados, so I guess they wear dresses made out of feathers in Barbados.  I only had a one way ticket to Germany, and when I tried to return, I had to convince them to sell me a $100 return ticket, since apparently it is more expensive going the other way.  The train station in Frankfurt, Germany only had travel posters for Gstadd, Switzerland.  I stayed near the train station at a Y.M.C.A. there, and it had a big German Shepard dog for security.  The man at the desk like when I was in Oslo looked like one of my uncles.  I discovered plastic garbage bags in Germany which had yet to arrive in America.  I went to one student pub, but I did not meet anyone, since it was at closing time.  I took the train out to Stuggart, Germany, and I went to the Mercedes Benz showroom, and I chatted with the salesman there.  He told me he wanted to drive a Corvette across Route 66 in the Unites States.  I bought six Rosenthal crystal wine goblets duty free for about $50 each to give to my roommate in Manhattan, since her family were from the Kaiser's consulate staff in Manhattan.  On the return flight there were some awfully big men on the DC10, and they would walk to back of the plane, and it would go up, and when they walked to the front of the plane, it would go down.  They were easily over seven feet tall and over 500 pounds.  I also discovered the black linoleum with the round circular disks which they used in the Frankfurt airport, and they now use for anti skid protection in this country.  When I got back to my family's house in New Canaan, Connecticut, somebody named Arnoff who was in charge of the German Federated railroads had left their card outside the front door.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/05/09  Monday 1:10 A.M..  Back during the Viet Nam war, when I was at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois www.lfc.edu , my military lottery draft number was 196, since I was born on May 9, 1950, thus I was not drafted.  I carried my draft card with me for many years from the Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts draft board, but they never called me up.  I lost the draft card back in August 1980, when my complete set of identification along with travel items and funds were stolen from me just before I was ready to travel to Oslo, Norway.  I did not make it there finally until February 1983.  I sometimes wander what would have happened if I had made it to Oslo, Norway back in August 1980.  Whether I would have been able to establish residency there or not.  By the time I got there in February 1983, with two people I saw in the West Hotel behind the Norwegian Palace that looked Casper Weinberger and Ronald Reagan, it turned out you can not just move there.  My father had to pay about a $1,000 to have me shipped back via Copenhagen.  Still a lot of people around here seem to think I am Scandinavian, so it would have been nice to have been around other people that look like me.  However, at age 59, I am not sure I could take the colder climate there.   Possibly I should have gone to Scotland, but I never meet many people from Scotland here, and I have met lots of people from Scandinavia over the years particularly when I traveled and when I was in Manhattan.

At Lake Forest College during the Viet Nam War, I just went to classes and studied and I also had part time jobs the whole time I was there, and I also restored old Mercedes Benzs.   Lake Forest, Illinois had good security in not too much moved around late at night, except for a private Sheriff in a black Cadillac.  Occasionally after the two local student pubs the Lantern and the Jim Mitchell's pub closed at 11 P.M., we would drive down to the next town south on Lake Michigan which was called Highwood which was at the gates Fort Sheridan, and back then from 1968 to 1972 a beer was 15 cents and a hard drink with mixer was 35 cents and Highwood was opened until 4 A.M. in the morning or possibly all night.  With the war on, people were working and awake 24 hours a day, and whenever I visited O'Hare airport in the early morning hours, there were tens of thousands of people traveling even at those hours.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/05/09  Monday 12:10 A.M..  I am going to eat another bowl of beef stew with some watered down passion punch.  I will then drink a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and lemon juice. 

I left the RTH surge protector power strip on the desk in the bunk room in Kennebunkport, Maine while I was up there, so there will be extra power sources at the desk.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/09  Sunday 11:35 P.M..  Before I went out, I put a new CR2023 Lithium battery in the bathroom scale.  The one in it wore out sooner, because I had stored two jugs of laundry detergent on top of it, so it stayed on all of the time.

I went out, and I went by the Stop and Shop.  I bought an eye round roast for $2.99 a pound for $10.61, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.70, and broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $2.21 for $17.51 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my groceries.  I chatted with a relative.  I went back out.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought three 9 ounce cans of CVS smokes almonds for $10, and two 1.06 ounce jars of Gold Emblem Italian spices for .88 each for $11.76 total.  I got $4.50 in CVS bonus bucks back, so I bought for half price for $4.50 a RTH LED emergency utility light for $4.50 with the bonus bucks for no charge.  I then drove further down Greenwich Avenue, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  Peter Tesei's republican for first selectman campaign office on Railroad Avenue had about a dozen late night workers.  I chatted with one volunteer about how the Republicans are always so financially hard up that the Harriman democrats with all of their money always seem to keep winning.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks on the way back up Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by CVS again.  From their 90% off rack in the center aisle, I bought four CVS 2 ounce fragrance free adult rash ointments for .41 each, four twin packs of Lock DeIcer for .29 each, and two LypSyl LypRadiance HoneyRose for .29 each and .07 tax for $3.45 total.  I then finished my walk.  The new AT&T phone store on the west side of upper Greenwich Avenue is suppose to open this Tuesday October 6, 2009.  It looks a bit high tech, but too pricey for my budget.  I put my purchases in the car.  I put one of the two packs of lock deicer in the passenger front door compartment and another in the arm rest compartment between the front seats.  I then sat out for a while.  I was told that there is 24 hour Starbucks in Darien, Connecticut, but I am not sure where it is, so possibly it is at one of the I-95 rest areas in Darien.  I then returned home.  I put three AAA alkaline batteries in the RTH emergency utility light, and I hung it beneath the light switch in the bathroom for emergency light in case of a power failure.  Thus I have all of the rooms in the apartment covered with emergency lighting.  I put the other two packages of lock deicer on top of the spice rack at the kitchen entrance.  I put the other drugstore products in the bookcase shelves in the bathroom.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/09  Sunday 7:45 P.M..  Private retreat - Greenwich Time

I ate some of the beef stew with watered down punch.  I put away the laundry.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go out for a walk.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/04/09  Sunday 6:15 P.M..  I watched television until 2 A.M..  I woke up at 9 A.M. and 10 A.M. when relatives called.  I finally 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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.   I went back to bed until 4 P.M..  I chatted with a friend.   I washed the breakfast dishes.  I ate an apple.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I started two loads of laundry, and I am just about ready to start the dry cycle.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.  I am defrosting in the microwave some beef stew I made about six months ago.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/03/09: 

Note: <888> 10/03/09  Saturday 11:50 P.M..  I watched a bit of television.  There is not much on.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed after that.  Partly cloudy and a high of 72 degrees Fahrenheit tomorrow.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/03/09  Saturday 10:05 P.M..  I sautéed a 7 ounce Jones's ham steak for about four minutes a side turning it every minute in olive oil with garlic powder, ground black pepper, and Italian seasoning, and for the last few minutes I sautéed it in soy sauce also.  I ate it with mustard on it.  I also had my usual steamed vegetable mixture with olive oil on it.  I ate the last piece of blueberry pie, and I also had a glass of watered down punch and a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/03/09  Saturday 8:55 P.M..  I finished installing and running the Norton Utilities 14 on the primary Vista computer, the Epox computer Vista partition, and the Abit computer Vista partitions.  I did Vista Complete PC backups from the first hard drives to the second hard drives, and I am just finishing up backing up the computers to the external hard drives.  I will defragment the Vista C: drives on the Abit and the Epox computers.  The primary Vista computer still takes 15.5 minutes to completely boot up, but that could because it is indexing all of my many stored files.  The other computers seem to boot up faster than before, but they do not have as many stored files.  I chatted with a relative.  The emergency pull cord bell went off in a neighboring apartment downstairs, but there was no problem.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/03/09  Saturday 5:55 P.M..  I ate a Maine apple after the last note.  I woke up at 9 A.M., when a relative called.  At noon, the postal person delivered the order for Norton Utilities 14.0 3 User - 20001380 - Buy.com for $24.99 with free shipping.  About 2 P.M., I finally got up.  A neighbor's relative gave me a book on the Islands of Maine.  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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with a relative.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I put my car in its usual parking place.  I picked up the mail.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I made a copy of the Norton Utilities 14 CD, and I installed it on the primary Vista computer, and I ran the utilities.  It seemes to start up faster and be more responsive.  I will use the defragmenting program shortly.  I will also install it on the Epox and the Abit computers.  I do not think the FIC server needs it, since it seems to be fast enough.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/03/09  Saturday 3:45 A.M..  From www.kodakgallery.com , I ordered two sets of 44 pictures from the ones that I took in Kennebunkport, Maine.  One set is for myself, and one is for a relative.  The total costs of the 88 pictures was $14.06 with free shipping.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/03/09  Saturday 2:35 A.M..  I also ate a piece of blueberry pie after the sandwich today.  I just now showered, and I cleaned up.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/03/09  Saturday 1:45 A.M..  I ate a three egg omelet with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and four strips of bacon and a toasted English muffin with olive oil and watered down passion punch.

I had a computer magazine telephone call this past week, and the caller thought Greenwich, Connecticut was Greenwich Village.  In the last recession in the 1970s, I recall eating a lot of omelets at David's Potty Belly on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village.  I also use to eat Eggs Florentine at the Greenwich Restaurant on Greenwich Street in Greenwich Village.  Alas, with the price of parking in Manhattan and the price of gasoline in this area, I can not afford to drive into Manhattan to see what the students and tourists are doing in Greenwich Village.  I had email from a friend who is the process of sailing on a cruise ship from London, England to Cape Town, South Africa, and the internet usage on board ship is 75 cents a minute, so the they use internet cafes when they visit different ports.  Possibly they should put an internet cafe on the Hudson River in the west 50s where the cruise ships come in, so the passengers have cheaper access to the internet. 

Since I have only been in Manhattan about four three times, since I was mugged there on July 4, 1993 by someone from Bermuda, I do not know much about Manhattan anymore.  I went there the following February after being mugged when it was minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit, and I went to a couple of pubs wearing my Austrian game keepers suit, which I have since out grown, and I chatted with the doorman at the Waldorf Astoria on a cold winters night.  I also went in during the G8 Conference during the February after 911, and I toured a few museums with friends.  It was a high security day.  The only other time, I recall going into Manhattan was about 2.5 years ago in February for the Microsoft Launch of Vista at the Sheraton Hotel on Broadway and about 54 street.  That day I also saw some C.B.S. employees on the train, and I was stuck in Grand Central Station, when the trains quit running when a building fell down near the tracks.  Thus my viewpoint on Manhattan is very limited, and I would imagine it has changed in the 16 years, since I was mugged.  Also from the period from before I was mugged, I would only go into Manhattan at night and the early morning hours and chat with people at pubs.  I only recall being in Manhattan about four times in the day time besides that since I moved here from Nantucket 26 years ago after being homeless in Manhattan for a couple of weeks in December 1983.  I think on those occasions it was to catch the bus from or to the airports to Grand Central Station to return out here or reverse.  I do recall going in twice with a friend, and one of those times I stopped by to visit http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm on East 54th street after watching the car in the Diamond District when a friend bought some silverware at Michael Fina, and one time I went with the same friends, when he bought a glass and iron table from Bloomingdales on Third Avenue on a Sunday afternoon, and I recall the table was from Florence, Italy.  The only other times I recall were possibly a few times when I went in for dinner with friends earlier in the evening.  Once of those times we went to the Elephant and the Castle in Greenwich Village, another time to a restaurant on East 58th street near a local pub, and the only other time, we went to the Mayfair restaurant, where we met Mrs. McDonald that looked like the Queen Mum on England.  Thus my exposure in Manhattan has been limited over these years in Greenwich, Connecticut.  I also went into Manhattan once with a friend from Brazil, and we toured around including going to the top of the World Trade Center and that was over 20 years ago.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/03/09  Saturday 12:25 A.M..  According to this, business is not too good in America Racehorse Prices Stumble Out of the Gate - BusinessWeek , but you can keep track of the sport at BloodHorse.com | Thoroughbred Horse Racing, Breeding, and Sales: News, Data, & Analysis .

Note: <888> 10/03/09  Saturday 12:05 A.M..  Before going to bed last night, I changed the calendars to October 2009.  I woke up, and I ate a 9.5 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.  I finally woke up at 8 A.M. this past 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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I chatted with a local walker about oil changes.  I went back to bed until 1 P.M..  I watched television, and I surfed the internet.  I chatted with a friend.  I fell asleep on the sofa.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a bulkie roll with mayonnaise and 1/4th of a 6.3 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and watered down passion punch.  I made up a fresh batch of passion punch.  I watched some television.  I chatted with two relatives.  I fell back asleep until 11 P.M..  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail.  I straightened up the pillows on the sofa.  I will now water the plants.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/02/09  Friday 12:55 A.M..  General Consensus seems not to want to expand Villa De Vinci All 4 selectmen candidates oppose Byram housing expansion - Greenwich Time

High tomorrow of 63 degrees Fahrenheit and afternoon showers.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/02/09  Friday 12:10 A.M..  Oldest human skeleton offers new clues to evolution - CNN.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/01/09  Thursday 11:55 P.M..  The way I figure it, every generic cigarette that I smoke currently costs me 15 cents, so I plan to cut back on smoking before I hopefully quit sometime soon.  I went out after the last note.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I use the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I stopped by Zen stationary, and I played a number 27 Amazing 8's scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I chatted with a local security guard, and I was told that after Obama finishes being president, any new president will only have secret service protection for 10 years after the term ends.  I am not sure how that effects former presidents.  I chatted with a local walker.  I gave the local walker six cigarettes or 90 cents value.  The local walker found $100 recently on Greenwich Avenue.  I also gave another cigarette to a homeless person who did not have enough money to get out of town.  The homeless person smelt like he had alcohol on his breath, so he probably has other problems too.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I completed my walk of Greenwich Avenue.  I then drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road and on a cooler evening, there was only one lonely fisherman down there trying his luck.  I then returned to my rooms at Villa De Vinci, and everything here seems pretty much normal and the same as usual.  I have noticed that the few non family friends that I have chatted with over the years, no longer have any time to chat anymore, so possibly they are experiencing economic difficulties like a great many other people during the Obama recession.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/01/09  Thursday 8:30 P.M..  I also ate a piece of blueberry pie.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for a walk.  I still need to lose weight.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/01/09  Thursday 7:45 P.M..  I put the can of remaining 3M Silicone Paste on the lower level of the sweater closet in the hallway with the other car items and tools.  I was told by the relatives in Maine there are a lot of acorns and a neighbor told me there are a lot of acorns in this area which is suppose to mean a colder winter.  The bad news is that the front bench on the east end of the building has collapsed, and the bench on the north front end of the building is also beginning to give way.  They look like the Wal-Mart park benches, so I guess they are not very sturdy.  The goods news is that I saw a black squirrel at the east end of the building.  I will now reheat and eat the same dinner as last night.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/01/09  Thursday 7:15 P.M..  The order for  3M Silicone Paste (Dielectric Grease) for $16.99 and $9.95 shipping and $1.02 tax for $27.96 total arrived at 6 P.M. via UPS.  I put some on the passenger side front door window tracks, and that windows now goes up and down all of the way without any problems.  I also put some on all of the other door window tracks, so they now have their preventive maintenance lubrication done.  I cleaned off the excess with a paper towel.  The container comes with a little brush inside to apply the silicone paste.  I chatted with a neighbor's relative.  I will shortly put a receipt for the silicone paste and the windshield blades in the maintenance folder in the map holder behind the driver's seat.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/01/09  Thursday 6:00 P.M..  Georgia Tech School of Earth and Atmospheric Science RSS

Note: <888> 10/01/09  Thursday 4:30 P.M..  I went outside a couple of times.

Note: <888> 10/01/09  Thursday 3:30 P.M..  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.

Journal Tribune: York County's Only Daily Newspaper > Todays Stories > K’port shows appreciation for Bush with anchor, ceremony

Note: <888> 10/01/09  Thursday 1:55 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/01/09  Wednesday 1:20 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 fruit juice punch and cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  The order for the 3M silicone grease is due to arrive today via UPS.  The order for the snow boots is due to arrive Monday October 5, 2009 via UPS.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/01/09  Thursday 11:50 A.M..  I woke up at midnight last night, and I watched television until 2 A.M..  I went back to bed until 10 A.M., when a relative called.

I paid my www.cablevision.com Digital Cable Television, Optimum Boost Online, and Optimum Voice long distance, my www.cl-p.com electricity, and my www.verizon.com bills.

I ordered from www.ordersmokesdirect.com five cartons of King Mountain Ultra Lights 100s in a box for $25.99 a carton plus $15.48 shipping for $145.43 total.  CIO