Note:<888>11/30/98 Monday 8:55 P.M. EST: I updated Scott's Broadcast sound.htm for this week. CIO

Note:<888>11/30/98 Monday 8:05 P.M. EST: I posted the this Thursday's shuttle page NASA, Space Shuttle STS-88, Endeavour Launch Thursday, December 3, 1998, 3:59 AM EST Approximate . It is linked from NASA . I was up at 4 P.M. today. I had breakfast of GU raisin bran, toast, orange juice, and vitamins. I backed up my computer which was finished about 7 P.M.. I went out at 6:30 P.M., and read two computer weeklies at the Greenwich Library. I drove downtown and surveyed the fog on Long Island Sound. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm which was down quite a bit today. Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/30/98 Monday 9:05 A.M. EST: This is the tip sheet Western Digital Corporation (Service/Support) - Tip of the Month (March 1997) Transferring Files From the Old to the New Drive in Windows 95 that I used for transferring my files from the old hard disk to the new hard disk. This morning, I downloaded www.earthtuner.com , along with three other radio programs one can find by searching "radio" from www.download.com . The other three are "vtuner.exe", "spinnerplus.exe", and "digi35c.exe". Three of them are two week demos, but they are handy for exploring radio stations on the net along with BRS Web-Radio which has lots of radio links. I also downloaded and installed Mcafee's Anti Virus program and Netscape Communicator Professional Edition. I decided that my 300 meg "C:\windows\favorites" files was fragmenting my new hard drive, so I transfered the entire file group under "faovorites" to the D: drive, and they still show up in the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 Favorites . Thus by keeping them in the D: drive, I defragged my new C: drive without them, and it seems to run much smoother. Also when one runs System Maintenance on C: it runs faster without having to go through all the Favorites folders. I also made a backup of my C: drive to my D: drive. All of this took a bit of time. I also added the Win98 IDE drivers from www.pcware.com for my S-571 motherboard, which seems to work better. Thus the system is up and runinnig fine, without any hitches. I will make a tape backup up when I get up this evening. Well have a good day, time for me to go to sleep. Just for the record, I now have 5.4 Gigabytes free on the C: drive with 892 MB used, and on the D: drive I have 203 MB free, with 828 used. Time for bed. I am just sneaking a few cigarettes a day, and my attemp with the patch to quit smoking seems to be working for now. CIO

Note:<888>11/29/98 Sunday 11:40 P.M. EST: I went to bed at 4 A.M. yesterday. I was up at 4 P.M. after a long sleep. I chatted with family members. I had breakfast of GU raisin bran, toast, orange juice, and vitamins. I started cleaning my apartment and watering the plants. I listen to half of the two week old weekend at www.ttalk.com while doing this. About 6:30 P.M., I deicided to rearrange the cabling on the inside of my PC, so each hard drive has its own IDE cable, with the second on the same one as the CDrom. I did this and tweaked the system for about an hour and a half. I am running my swapper on the empty D: drive. The new drive makes more noice than I would have expected, but works fine. I then finished cleaning the apartment. I cleaned up, and had a Stauffer's frozen lasagna. About 9:30 P.M., I went out, and filled the car with $11.45 of premium at Exxon. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought a smaller box of Goldfish crackers for $3.69, since they were out of the economy larger boxes for $5. I then went downtown in the misty cool evening and walked the lower part of Greenwich Avenue. I chatted with one local about the internet. I noticed in the headlines of the Sunday newspaper, the residents of the YMCA are going to have to move out when the building is refurbished. I smoked a White Owl New York panatella at the Post Office square, and studied the overcast sky. I came back home and started my laundry, which should be done in about an hour. Well back to the net, have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/29/98 Sunday 2:50 A.M. EST: I went to bed about 4 A.M. Saturday morning, after working on the internet. I recieved a couple of phone calls on Saturday morning. I was up about noon and had breakfast of GU raisin bran, toast, vitamins, and orange juice. I have not been drinking coffee for two weeks. I had a friend come over about 1 P.M.. We chatted for a while and then went over to Tod's Point and sat out by the South East point enjoying the view of the Sound on the nice day. There were lots of people at Tod's Point. We returned via Caldors in Old Greenwich, and my friend bought a Fuji telephoto 35 mm camera for a Christmas gift there. We stopped by Stables and viewed the merchandise. We returned to central Greenwich, and toured Outdoor Traitors and the Ski Shop at the top of Greenwich Avenue. It was very busy downtown. He dropped me off at 4 P.M.. I made icetea.htm , and reheated my Thanksgiving dinner again for dinner. I took the rest of the meat off the Turkey and froze it too. About 5:30 P.M. I went back downtown and parked in the center of Greenwich Avenue, and walked down to the bottom of Steamboat Road and had a White Owl New York Panatella cigar. I chatted with one of the fishermen from Taiwan. I returned back to the center of town. I then drove up to Norwalk, and stopped by the opening of the Circuit City store near CompUSA. They have a computer section there with a 17 inch monitor for $250. I then went to CompUSA and bought a Maxdor 5.1 gigabyte hard drive for $158.99 plus it comes with a $50 mailin rebate, so it is slightly over a hundred dollars. I returned home and spent the next six hours installing the new hard drive, and copying the old drive files onto it. It was not too tedious, but I spent some time fiddling with the settings. It all seems to work fine, but the new hard drive makes more noice than the old drive. Perhaps it will be quieter after I optimize it. I think I have it all installed, and the system is all working fine. I made my old 1 gigabyte drive the D: drive. Well I have to get some rest after I optimize the new drive. Have a good morning. Tomorrow afternoon I need to clean the apartment. CIO

Note:<888>11/28/98 Saturday 1:30 A.M. EST: I updated my Politics category 065.htm . CIO

Note:<888>11/27/98 Friday 11:20 P.M. EST: I did internet work until 6:30 P.M.. I then watched the ABC evening news. I had reheated Thanksgiving dinner. I went out about 7:30 P.M. and walked the lower area of Greenwich Avenue. I smoked a White Owl New York Panatella Cigar in front of the post office and chatted briefly with another cigar smoker about a few minor ideas. I walked up to CVS and bought two small one pound Plumrose canned hams for $1.66 each and some Wizard Air freshner for .99 for a total of $4.81. I then walked back down the avenue to my car and stopped by the Grand Union for GU freezer storage bags for $1.49 to freeze some of my turkey, and a Tony's Pepperoni pizza for $3.49 for a total of $5.07. Also while on the Avenue, I bought a $3 Connecticut Lottery "Lucky Dog" ticket at Zynns, but did not win anything. I returned home and watched the last two hours of the CSPAN tour of the White House. I will do a bit of internet work now. CIO

Note:<888>11/27/98 Friday 4:45 P.M. EST: I was up at noon today after going to bed at 4 A.M. this morning. I had some early afternoon visitors briefly. I had breakfast of raisin bran, orange juice, vitamins. I went downtown to Putnam Trust Bank of New York to conduct some banking business. I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. It was a cool and blustery day. The library was closed today. I returned home. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . All is pretty much quiet here out in the south west of Greenwich. Well time for a little net work. CIO

Note:<888>11/26/98 Thursday 11:15 P.M. EST: I upgrade the Netscape Bookmarks Folder for download from download.htm , it is the file named scotnet2.zip . The summary of the file follows: Scott's Internet Hotlist in Netscape Bookmark format "scotnet2.zip" 1,462,943 bytes zipped 12,246,257 bytes unzipped , 71,897 links in 141 categories, and 2,485 folders, 11/27/98, file is "scotnet2.htm" for opening in Netscape Web Brower, I advise not installing Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or 5.0 with this file installed in Netscape, or it will take many hours to import Netscape bookmarks into Microsoft Internet Explorer, save this bookmark and delete it before installing Microsoft Internet Explorer or running MS Internet Explorer 5.0 repair option, and then reopen it in Netscape. The links are proofed, and organized. Well Netscape Users should have a lot of bookmarks to work with. Basically it is just converted from the Microsoft Favorites folders. CIO

Note:<888>11/26/98 Thursday 9:50 P.M. EST: I finished cooking the 10 pound Stew Leonard Butterball turkey at 8:15 P.M. for 2 hours and 45 minutes in the convection microwave oven. I made Paul Prudhonne's Rice Mix, and Grand Union Stuffing using one half white wine instead of water with both mixtures, and steamed brussel sprouts along with ice tea for dinner which I finished about 9:15 P.M. including cleaning up. I went outside, and had a White Owl New York Panatella cigar and observed a few drops of rain sprinkling outside, and it seems to be a quiet evening to stay home and browse the internet. Well I hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving Day, and I hope to be out a little bit tomorrow when the Power Shoppers hit the streets in their pre holiday frenzies. Well back to the net. CIO

Note:<888>11/26/98 Thursday 6:30 P.M. EST: I was up at 4 P.M.. I went downtown briefly. The buy two get one free cigarettes have gone up a dollar a pack and are now $7. In other words cigarettes have gone up .45 a pack. I will start trying to wear the patch tomorrow to quit smoking again. It started to clear about 5 P.M. before sunset. It looks like it rained all day. I straightened up my apartment to its normal appearence. It is nice to have my own place to myself again. I chatted with family members. I am cooking a Stew Leonard Butterball Turkey from the Harvest Assembly of God, which should be ready at about 8 P.M.. I am also having GU stuffing, Paul Prudon Rice Mix, and Brussle Sprouts, along with ice tea. Well I hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving. I will be on an evening schedule tonight. I will probably be out in the day time a bit tomorrow. CIO

Note:<888>11/26/98 Thursday 4:25 A.M. EST: I have finished sifting through my email, and some web work. It is time for me to go to bed. CIO

Note:<888>11/26/98 Thursday 3:25 A.M. EST: I went downtown at about 7 P.M. and walked around for two hours on lower Greenwich Avenue, and also the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I bought a White BJeep Lighter at CVS for $1.39 and a five pack of Cavandish Whiffs for $1.77. I enjoyed walking around in the refreshing weather. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought a six pack of 1000 sheet toilet paper for $3.59 and a box of GU stuffing mix for $2.19 for a total of $6. I then returned home and had a Tony's frozen pizza. I was called by my former house guest and I picked him up at the train station, and after some discussion he has decided to relocate to other premises and will not be visiting here ever again, except possibly with escort to retrieve some of his personal belongings. I finished discussing the fact with some local officials and I think he will be comfortable once he settles into his former domain, if he should choose to do so. Well I should be back to my normal routines without house guest again. The tension caused me to buy a couple of packs of cigarettes and I will try using the patch again tomorrow. Well enjoy your Thanksgiving Holiday. CIO

Note:<888>11/25/98 Wednesday 6:15 P.M. EST: I updated Scott's Broadcast sound.htm for the first time in two weeks. I guess I am pretty much over my sickness of the last two weeks. I will have to see how I continue to feel. CIO

Note:<888>11/25/98 Wednesday 5:45 P.M. EST: I went to bed at 4 A.M. yesterday morning after chatting with my house guest. I was up at 9:30 A.M. and recieved a Thanksgiving call from a family member. I had breakfast of GU raisin bran, toast, orange juice, and vitamins. I made my 11:30 A.M. appointment. I came back home and slept until 5 P.M.. I am now catching up on some internet work. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well have a good evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/24/98 Tuesday 10:30 P.M. EST: I went out at about 2:30 P.M. today. I walked around downtown a bit. I am wearing the stop smoking patch, and I have only snuck four cigarettes today. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought Whole Milk gallon for $2.99, two boxes GU raisin bran for $1.99 each, three half gallons of Florida Natural Orange Juice for $1.99 each for a total of $12.94. I am feeling better today, and my house guest seems to be recovering. I came home and rested a bit, and had a simple meal of peanut butter sandwich and Ramen noodles. I went by the library and read the computer press and the local newspaper. I then walked around downtown until about 9 P.M.. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought 18 bags of Ramen noodles for $3 and a bottle of Kikomann Soy Sauce for $1.79. I returned home and my house guest started to do his laundry. I made two bags of Ramen noodles for him for dinner. We have plenty of food in the house, but my house guest likes fasting occassionally and I try to occassionally loose a bit of weight. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well I will surf the net a bit this morning. I have a 11:30 A.M. appointment tomorrow morning, so I will have to be out sooner and to bed sooner. CIO

Note:<888>11/23/98 Monday 10:15 P.M. EST: I rested most of Sunday trying to get over my flu, pneumonia, or cold. I went out this morning and made a 1 P.M. reservation at the Hospital Out patient. I made the 1 P.M. appointment. The intern said I need to quit smoking, which I plan to do, along with continual rest until I build up my energy. I made another appointment. I came back and rested. My house guest is out this evening, and he should be gone in a day or two, since he is also trying to get over the same virus. Well I will have to see how I feel tomorrow. We had our first heavy dinner in a week this evening. I did go by the library and read the computer press and walked a short distance downtown. I also updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well have a good day tomorrow. CIO

Note:<888>11/21/98 Saturday 9:15 P.M. EST: Yesterday on Friday I rested trying to get over my cold. I took my house guest by the hospital early this morning to get some antibiotics for the same cold. It is like a stomach flu. My house guest will be relocating to another location on Monday. I will probably be back to more of my normal routine then. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm from yesterday. I noticed this evening while out for a walk, the movie "Elizabeth" was playing and seemed to be sold out. I picked up a dozen eggs for $1.59. The Harvest Time Assembly of God delivered a frozen butterball turkey today and a box of cookies, along with a copy of the New Testament. I was happy to see them again this year, and enjoy their holiday visits. I guess starting this Thursday, there will be a surplus of turkey in the house. Well time to catch up on email and internet news. It was moderately busy downtown this evening, and I got a little fresh air walking. There is an IBM PC probably a 486 in the train station dumpster for grabs. Well have a quiet evening. CIO

Note:<888>11/19/98 Thursday 6:30 P.M. EST: I took my house guest downtown at 11 P.M. this morning. I came back and rested until 1 P.M.. I made my 3 P.M. appointment. I met up with my house guest downtown and dropped him off at the train station to go into Manhattan. He is due out around 10:30 P.M.. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well I will do a little net work. I have not been drinking coffee for about a week, and I feel more relaxed. CIO

Note:<888>11/18/98 Wednesday 11:40 P.M. EST: I am beginning to feel better today. I drove my house guest downtown at 11 A.M.. I slept until 3 P.M.. I picked up my houseguest at 5 P.M.. I came back and went back out to the library at 7 P.M. until 8:30 P.M. reading the local paper and the computer press. I then walked downtown until about 9:30 P.M.. I came home and made ham and cheese omlettes. I am now finishing up doing the laundry. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm .Well I will next do my email. Have a good morning. CIO

Note:<888>11/18/98 Wednesday 2:30 A.M. EST: I rested a good bit of Monday trying to get over my pneumonia and bronchittis. I fixed my house guest breakfast and dinner and took him downtown and picked him up. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought two 5 pound bags of potatoes for .99 each, 9 bags of Ramen noodles, a Tony's Supreme High Pizza for $4.29, all for $7.77. My house guest and I each had a Stauffer's large Lasagna for dinner this past evening. He surfed the internet a bit this evening. I am just about ready to call it a day. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . CIO

Note:<888>11/16/98 Monday 11:15 P.M. EST: I rested until noon on Sunday. I went into Manhattan and picked up my house guest returning from Germany, and returned from New York about 4 P.M..We chatted and went for a drive last evening. I rested quite a bit on Monday since I am still sick. I am feeling better this evening. I went out with my house guest and we walked the lower part of Greenwich Avenue. We drove around town. We stopped by the Grand Union, and I purchased three half gallons of Tropicana Orange Juice for $1.99 each, a Red Barron Pizza for $3.99, four Stauffer's large lasagnas for $2.99 each, boneless center cut pork chops $3.91, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter $1.29, and Kelloggs Raisin Bran $3.49 for a total of $38.89. We returned home and had the Red Baron Pizza for dinner. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . I will sift through email and relax hoping I will soon be able to recover from my bronchittis and pneumonia, which seems to be passing. I and my guest will be out tomorrow about noon. CIO