Note:<888> 12/31/05 Saturday 10:20 P.M.:  I will now boot into Vista beta 2 build 5270.  I then might do a backup of the Vista partition with Nero 6.6 to DVD media.   CIO 

Note:<888> 12/31/05 Saturday 10:05 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I toasted two pieces of frozen multigrain bread, and I put Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise on both pieces, and then I put three 1/32nds inch by 8 inch by 5 inch slices of baked turkey and five 5 inch by 5 inch by 1/32nds inch slices of Jarlsberg lite cheese, and I put the top toasted piece of bread on the sandwich, and I cut it in half cross the vertical, and I put the sandwich on a dinner plate along with the remaining portion of stuffing that I reheated, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I picked up my mail downstairs.  It looks like it has snowed a couple of inches outside recently.   CIO     

Note:<888> 12/31/05 Saturday 8:55 P.M.:  I ordered for an older relative as a late Christmas present whom happens to be having problems with wild cats in her back yard in Florida Surplus Computers CES10586  - Eliminator Pepper Spray 1/2 Oz. w/ Key Ring for $5.99 and Surplus Computers CES11033  - Ultra Bright 28 LED Compact Flashlight (Blue) w/case for $16.99 for $22.98 total with free UPS ground transportation from Santa Clara, California.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/31/05 Saturday 7:30 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.   CIO

Note:<888> 12/31/05 Saturday 7:10 P.M.:   I finished the Nero 6.6 backup of the C: drive to DVD with 11 DVDs that I labeled, and I put in slim jewel cases.  I chatted with two relatives.  One my relatives was using the GN 9120 which is a wireless freedom headset or ear piece for regular telephones at 2.4 GHz.  It was a gift from her children, so she could be hands free talking.    I ordered from www.staples.com , this Staples.com®. that was easy™. Staples 5mm Slim Jewel Cases, 100/Pack for $14.94 plus Staples.com®. that was easy™. Playo 50/Pack 4.7GB DVD-R, Spindle for $12.94 with checkout coupon "12197" for $10 savings for $27.88 total with free UPS shipping arriving this coming Wednesday January 3, 2006.  I now could do a Nero 6.6 DVD backup of the Vista beta 2 build 5270 hard drive, but possibly I might wait until I configure it more.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/31/05 Saturday 4:00 P.M.:  I was awake at 2:30 P.M., when a relative called.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I chatted with the same relative.  I had a telephone call from the Greenwich Town Departments - Police Department fund raising, and I suggested they raise some funds from their next door neighbor JPMorgan Private Bank Home Page .  The $10 check that I sent at Christmas time to

UNION CHURCH OF POCANTICO HILLS

555 BEDFORD ROAD

NORTH TARRYTOWN NY 10591

was cashed at the J.P. Morgan Chase Bank JPMorgan Chase at Tarrytown, New York, so they are opened for donations to that small church out in the woods.  I will now run Ad-awareSE.  I will then do a DVD backup with Nero 6.6 of the C: drive.  This I will do a DVD backup with Nero 6.6 of the Vista beta two build 5270 drive.   CIO    

Note:<888> 12/31/05 Saturday 6:15 A.M.:  I was able to set up the Domino and Lotus Notes betas on the Vista beta 2 build 5270 partition without any problems.   I am tired, so I will now go to bed.   CIO

Note:<888> 12/31/05 Saturday 4:10 A.M.:  I opened up the two new shirts, and I tired them on, and they fit just fine.  They are well made functional shirts that I obtained at a reasonable price based on today prices.  I hung them up in the bedroom closet with my other old shirts.  I thought I would download these IBM betas IBM Trials & betas and see if I can install them on the Microsoft Vista beta 2 build 5270 operating system.  Since I have been awake for 24 hours, I am running on empty, but I tend to get more work done on a late night schedule.  I will now download the three betas, which should be fast at this time of day.  I ate a couple handfuls of almonds earlier.  I then ate 10 Town House crackers with 1/4 inch thick by 1 inch by 2 inch slices of mozzarella cheese on them.   CIO       

Note:<888> 12/31/05 Saturday 3:30 A.M.:  As one of my British neighbors up the road told me recently, when he told me to get a hair cut, I am not suppose to know anything.  However, the British neighbor might not be in this area, since he worked for Swiss Air.  However, I think he also lives in California in the winter, and has traveled extensively.  He is particularly fond of Bing Crosby music and collects old Bing Crosby records at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I told him once that Bing Crosby was from Cour'de Laine, Idaho.  Another childhood friend had a uncle in California whom use to produce music for Lawrence Welk Stars Of The Lawrence Welk Show .  I do not play my Beatles and Elvis music too much in this building, since it makes my neighbors think I am some sort of radical hippie type.  I no longer have the coal miners old broken wooden case Philco Radio that I used for a plant stand, and I gave it to the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop, and they priced it at $75 about five years ago.  I think it was probably a fire hazard anyway.  On my limited budget spending lots of money on tiny pieces of electronics in plastic casings seems like a lot of money, when one can still buy a good solid piece of wood furniture for $10 or $20, but I am trying to maintain my computer and other skills.  Of course to mail Mike Scott production DVDs to my relatives whom do not have the internet would cost mailing charges.  However, at the end of March 2006 for $10 more a month, when Optimum Online can be had at 30 megs a second download and 2 megs a second upload with an IP address, so one can run a server, I could post a broadcast on the internet, sort of like Alistair Cooke reporting from America despite the fact that they stole his bones.  I think I have one of his books in the apartment.  Since the younger Old Guard still rule the town, I am left somewhat between the older yuppie generation, and the new Old Guard.   However, having spent so many years downtown at night around the younger generation, I think most of them that I am one of the senior members of the community, and they are determined to put me out to pasture in some place like the Happy Hills retirement home.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/31/05 Saturday 2:55 A.M.:  What is amusing about this CMOC Home Page and linked to this CMOC HELPFUL MILITARY LINKS  is that this http://www.stratcom.af.mil/ does not seem to work anymore.  This is all rather amusing, since on the local civilian television here about ten years ago, they reported with the downsizing of the military and the end of the cold war that NORAD headquarters was turned into a cold storage warehouse facility, and after 911, it was reported here that most of the Strategic Command operations were being operated by NATO from abroad, so it is hard to tell what really is going on in this country anymore from a military point of view, when one watches the civilian media.    However, at my ripe old age of 55, I might still be operational in the First United States Army Medical Research Corps based in Manhattan as some sort of orderly or houseboy on leave from the British government, so it is hard to tell what is really going on based on my experience, so I just maintain normal routine based on my own experience as the Maytag repairman.  Of course maybe my real boss is still the coal miner that once lived in this building, and from what I can tell, although they have put in the electrical conduit for a new power cable into the building and laid a cement foundation out by the west center back side door for a generator, the additional generating capacity is not to keep the apartments any warmer, but it is to keep the hallways warmer as if anyone really cared about the hallways.  I guess whether people are warm in their apartments is not of any concern to the government.  It is suppose to be a diesel generator, when they install the generator, but I did not notice whether they installed an oil tank or not, and the generator cement base is located new a natural gas line that powers the community room heat and air conditioning.   Thus it seems for the indefinite future, we will still be a little bit colder here on the cold side of town, unless one can afford the high electricity heating bills.  I am basically so cheap, I would not pay higher electricity bills even if I had the money, so I doubt if anyone is sneaking into my apartment, since the only people whom have ever visited me here seem to be from Northern Vermont or upstate New York along with a few imposters from Canada whom claim they are from elsewhere, and we even once had a guest once from Minnesota.  Of course one of my Norwegian neighbors is always very friendly, but he still does not want to buy an air conditioner in the summer.   CIO   

Note:<888> 12/31/05 Saturday 2:15 A.M.:  They are currently out of them here L'espion XS Digital Still Camera (Chrome) DigitalDream l'espion XS , but one could buy a bundle of them here http://www.mjelectronics.com/wholesale.html , but currently their link is not working, but it worked an hour ago.  Of course, if one wants a more clever device, one can always pay more money, but I would imagine it would also take the skill to know how to use it.  Basically smaller people would seem to use it more easily.  Of course with my tripod and my video camera and my USB connector and DVD burner, I would be able to record video to DVD and send it to non internet friends and family for their amusement.  Like Scott's commentary on the universe from the quiet side of the pond during the colder time of the year, when it is not too busy here.  It always seems busy downtown in the winter during a nice day, because that many younger people here seem to get cabin fever, so they get out of their caves and try to explore the area.   Downtown Greenwich, Connecticut today looked like a lot of hotel personnel trying to keep track of a guest.   CIO 

Note:<888> 12/31/05 Saturday 2:05 A.M.:  This is the inexpensive spy camera that I bought from Ebay from Fort McCoy, Florida from a dishwasher I think for $3 and $11 shipping Digital Dream .  Of course we have so many snoops in this area, a spy cam is sort of redundant.  However, since I am use to carrying a cigarette lighter, it might be easy to carry around for a few random snap shots as I go through my day.  Since I once had certain professional photography abilities, I frequently notice interesting scenic observations and other events, and I usually do not have a camera, so I guess I can carry it with me.  Since I am not very affluent, I can not afford to lug around a $100 digital camera with a $50 smart card, and I already have that capability with my Vivitar Digital camera, which holds about 1000 to 2000 pictures, if you can afford the batteries or have the time to recharge the digital batteries.  Digital Dream l'espion XS Digital Surveillance Device also has an Infra Red sensor to trigger a photograph , however like a great many gismos and gadgets, I will probably lose interest with it soon.  It is my personal opinion that if I have any intruders in the apartment, it is probably a spirit or a ghost in which case the camera will not do much good.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/31/05 Saturday 12:30 A.M.:  Basically with video production ability with my older Sony video camera and my computer DVD burner, I will be able to document my local living environment and apartment as I perceive it.  However, I have been forewarned not to take pictures on Greenwich Avenue and other public areas.  I do know a great many individuals in this area carry miniature cameras in this area.  To show you what I mean, I just bought one of these Digital ZIPPO Style Spy Camera - L'espion XS Digital Still Camera (Chrome) - Digital ZIPPO Style Spy Camera - L'espion XS Digital Still Camera (Chrome) from Fort McCoy, Florida on Ebay for $3 and $11 standard shipping for $14 total eBay: L'espion Metal Case Time Lapse Infrared COOL (item 7577265709 end time Dec-30-05 21:07:01 PST).  I figure at that price it is worth the risk.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/30/05 Friday 10:25 P.M.:  I have an older model Sony Video Camera, which I have not used much since I bought it for $10 at the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop a few year ago, but it works quite well, and I did order an extra battery for it when I got it.  I have about 45 minutes of video on it from my last two vacations during the last two years to Kennebunkport, Maine, where everyone there also treats me like the Village Idiot.  I went to Buy.com - 10% off coupon , and I redeemed the 10% off coupon.  I then bought Buy.com - Pinnacle Dazzle DVC-80 USB Video Capture Device - 210100318 for $39.99 less $4 discount coupon.  However, for some reason the slower free shipping would not work no matter what I tried, so I had to pay $10.75 two day shipping and handling for $46.74 total.  Thus with my Sony Video Camera, the Pinnacle Dazzle DVC-80 USB Video Capture Device and my DVD burner on my primary computer, I will be able to burn video to DVD and send to friends and relatives who seem to like spending a lot of time watching television, so I will communicate with them with my own video productions.  Greenwich, Connecticut is very William Morris Agency Security conscious, so one is discouraged from taking pictures or movies out in the general public, but I could try some scenic artistic types of film production without any people around and just the usual few sea gulls or other random birds or animals that might happened to be around our area.  It is a large investment, but hopefully with the existing computer equipment I have, I might be able to make some use out of it.  Since it is late in the day out in California, this key component of Mike Scott productions might not arrive with two day shipping at the earliest next Tuesday.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/30/05 Friday 8:20 P.M.:   CNN.com - Mount St. Helens releasing lava at astonishing pace - Dec 30, 2005 and Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO). CIO 

Note:<888> 12/30/05 Friday 8:10 P.M.:  I looked for bargains on the internet to no avail.  I chatted with a friend from down south.   I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/30/05 Friday 6:30 P.M.:  There is a simple way to make big waves out in California, but since most people in California are not Scottish, they do not know about the  The Legend of Nessie, the Ultimate Loch Ness Monster Site and Loch Ness Monster - Google Image Search and http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/ss.gif .  Yes, there are people whom are more conservative than Adolph Hitler.   In other words, if the gentleman has nuclear or hydrogen weapons, I would say "Yes Sir", and "Right Away Sir".  Also the United States of America is not the only member of that small club.  Other countries in that club are the United Kingdom, Russia, France, Israel, India, China, Pakistan, and possibly North Korea.  If there are any other countries in that club, it has not yet been brought to my attention.  However, since Russia broke up into a number of smaller countries, some of the smaller breakaway former Russian republics are now also nuclear powers, if you get my drift.  Technically Canada might also have access to nuclear weapons, since they are part of the NORAD group of military people, and although Hollywood has made movies about them, nobody really knows for sure how they operate, so if all you know is Hollywood, I would stay away.  In this modern world, they could have preprogrammed automatic robots.   CIO

Note:<888> 12/30/05 Friday 5:55 P.M.:  While I was doing my house cleaning today, I put a new Vanish drop in blue toilet tank tablet with Borax cleaning action in the toilet tank.  On one of my trips to California, as I recall after driving through some desert area, I saw the Borax mountain from the 20 Mule Team days, and it is quite a large mound of Borax, so whomever owns it, is probably making a penny or two.  Unfortunately, it does not snow much where it is located, so they can not use it for a ski slope.  It is large enough to see from a distance.  There use to be some long forgotten Hollywood actor that advertised the Borax product, but I guess his family like a lot of other long forgotten Hollywood types are probably trying to figure out how to get spare change to do their laundry, when they come back east.  Since I sort of live like the Maytag repairman, I always thought Laundromats in Key West, Florida on a rainy day would make a lot of money, since there are so many people there whom seem to be camping out without essential services.  Also if you do not have a home on a rainy day in south Florida, a laundromat is a good place to hang out.  The most upscale laundromat in Key West, Florida in the Old Days was on Truman Avenue, and it was called the Margaret Truman Laundromat.  Of course, there were at least 40 others in Key West, Florida, so for those of you with too much salt on your clothes, there was a way to clean up, if you had a few quarters.  I also ate a couple handfuls of almonds.  Almonds in North America tend to come from California, and more than likely, since some areas of California can be dry while other areas can be wet, the laundries in the drier parts of California might be expensive.   I recall one of my original internet lobbying efforts were on the behalf of a young Dutch citizen in California attending a state university, and he was arrested at the Stanford University campus for calling the President of Stamford University a Nazi, and he spent 6 months to a year in a tin hut in a illegal alien detention center in Death Valley, California where the temperatures inside the hut were over 145 degrees Fahrenheit.  Thus by the Standards of the International Red Cross that would be considered "Cruel and Unusual Punishment", thus more than likely other well educated Europeans more than likely have other similar stories about the United States of America.  It is the nature of my established family in our own country, if somebody tried to do that to me, most of the members of my family would "Shoot First, and Ask Questions Later".  Thus in some parts of the United States of America, the local citizens know their rights, and unless they were just trying to sweat off some fat in a hot tin shack, they would not take kindly to California's viewpoint on Civil Rights.  Although California is a very powerful and conservative state, more than likely there are other groups of states with more influence and authority in certain matters, and it is sort of like that old song, "The Night the Lights went out in Georgia", more than likely the same thing could happen in California.  If you do not think I am serious, ring my telephone three times, and I will give you people a simple example back out in California.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/30/05 Friday 5:00 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.   CIO

Note:<888> 12/30/05 Friday 4:30 P.M.:  I ate a piece of pumpkin pie with a few tablespoons of Kraft lite cool whip frozen topping.   I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a relative. My order for Sale at L.L.Bean,  I ordered a Dress Thomson color Scotch Plaid Flannel Shirt regular size XX large for $19.95 Scotch Plaid Flannel Shirt: Chamois, Flannel, Wool and Lined at L.L.Bean and a Rain Forest color Chamois Cloth Shirt, Buffalo Plaid, Tall size XX large for $16.95 Chamois Cloth Shirt, Buffalo Plaid: Chamois, Flannel, Wool and Lined at L.L.Bean plus $5.95 UPS ground shipping for $42.85 total is out for delivery to me FedEx | Track Mike Scott L.L. Bean order for shirts arrived.  The Rain Forest one is made in Bulgaria, and the Dress Thomson one is made in Honduras.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/30/05 Friday 3:25 P.M.:  I put the Christmas letter from the Vice President and the Second Lady in the Plexiglas frame over their last year's Christmas letter, and I hung it back on the wall to the right of the primary computer.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/30/05 Friday 3:15 P.M.:  I finished my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out the garbage, and I picked up my mail.  I had a Christmas letter from Vice President and Lynne Cheney Vice President of the United States - Richard B. Cheney and Mrs. Lynne Cheney .  Last week, I received a Christmas letter from Buckingham Palace Welcome to the official web site of the British Monarchy , so I hung it in the same place in the hallway, where the letter from Sandringham Estate was hung last year.  It is sort of an inside joke about Buck house that the Buck stops here.  I toasted two pieces of frozen multigrain bread, and I put Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise on both pieces, and then I put three 1/32nds inch by 7 inch by 5 inch slices of baked turkey and five 5 inch by 5 inch by 1/32nds inch slices of Jarlsberg lite cheese, and I put the top toasted piece of bread on the sandwich, and I cut it in half cross the vertical, and I put the sandwich on a dinner plate, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I then showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then went by the Arnold bread outlet, and I bought a six pack of New York Everything bagels for a $1.85.  I then returned home.  I sold a package of Seneca Ultra light 100 cigarettes to a neighbor whom needed a package of cigarettes for a dollar.  I am still waiting for my www.fedex.com delivery, so I could not linger downtown with the exciting crowd that always seems to be around Greenwich Avenue.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/30/05 Friday 9:50 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  My order for Sale at L.L.Bean,  I ordered a Dress Thomson color Scotch Plaid Flannel Shirt regular size XX large for $19.95 Scotch Plaid Flannel Shirt: Chamois, Flannel, Wool and Lined at L.L.Bean and a Rain Forest color Chamois Cloth Shirt, Buffalo Plaid, Tall size XX large for $16.95 Chamois Cloth Shirt, Buffalo Plaid: Chamois, Flannel, Wool and Lined at L.L.Bean plus $5.95 UPS ground shipping for $42.85 total is out for delivery to me FedEx | Track Mike Scott L.L. Bean order for shirts .  I will now do my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I will shut down the computer.   CIO  

Note:<888> 12/30/05 Friday 9:20 A.M.:  I paid my Cablevision www.cablevision.com Optimum Digital Television, Optimum Voice Digital Telephone, and Optimum Online Cable Modem bills, my Connecticut Light and Power www.cl-p.com electricity bill, and my Verizon www.verizon.com telephone bill.  In mid December 2005, I paid my GEICO www.geico.com automobile insurance payment for January 2006 which pays up the premium on my automobile  insurance policy through March 2006, when the new policy will be issued in April 2006.  Thus all of my bills are paid except for my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/30/05 Friday 8:00 A.M.:  I was awake at 4 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I installed the old AMD Athlon XP 2000 processor in the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I put the AMD Duron 1.6 in the AMD Sempron 3000 packaging, and I left it on the right side of the bedroom sideboard on top of the old cable modems.  I put it in a zip lock bag with it inside the AMD packaging.  I changed the CMOS Bios settings for the processor CPU-World: AMD Sempron 3000+ - SDA3000DUT4D (SDA3000BOX) and this is my motherboard GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Products 7VT600P-RZ . According to the motherboard manual for my Frequency/Voltage control for my Bios setup, which I had set on auto, I could increase my system's performance by changing "CPU Host Control" from disable to enable, which I did.  I then set my "CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) to 166.  Then since I have DDR400 memory in my computer, I changed "Fdram Clock (Mhz) to "200-DDR400".  I am not overclocking the computer, I am just setting it for the components that I am using.  One has to have the right memory in the computer before changing the last setting, or one could damage the computer.  With the current setting, the computer seems to run a bit faster.  The Northgate Syntax backup computer is running just fine, and I am installing updates on it.  CIO     

Note:<888> 12/29/05 Thursday 9:05 P.M.:  I ate a piece of pumpkin pie with a few tablespoons of Kraft Cool Whip lite frozen topping, and I also ate a couple of handfuls of smoked almonds.  I had the snack with a glass of iced tea.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/29/05 Thursday 8:15 P.M.:  On a microwave proof plate, I put two sheets of paper towels, five strips of Oscar Meyer thick bacon and two more sheets of paper towel and the microwave plastic plate cover, and I put it in the microwave oven for five minutes.  After cooking the bacon, I also heated a portion of the left over stuffing in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid on the reheat cycle.  In my omelet pan, I put two tablespoons of olive oil and two pads of margarine, and I brought it to a simmer over medium electric heat, and I cracked three large eggs into the hot fat, and I fried the eggs until they were done medium.  I used a dinner plate on top of the pan to keep a little heat inside and warm the plate, and then I slid the three fried eggs onto the plate with five strips of cooked bacon and the stuffing, and I ate it all with a glass of ice tea.  I wiped the seasoned omelet pan clean with a paper towel, and I washed the dishes.  I chatted with a friend, and I chatted with a relative.  CIO   

Note:<888> 12/29/05 Thursday 6:35 P.M.:  I showered, and I cleaned up after my last note.  I went out to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I saw a couple of my former neighbors from down by the waterfront.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and everything continues to be half price.  I then drove over to www.costco.com in Port Chester, New York.  I bought a 40 ounce bag of Kirkland smoked almonds for $7.49, two six packs of 19 ounce cans of Hormel steakhouse beef stew for $9.69 each six pack, a 8 pack of 18 ounce cans of Progresso New England clam chowder for $10.59, a 16 ounce container of Kraft www.kraft.com grated parmesan cheese for $4.99, a two pound package of Kirkland Honey Roasted sliced turkey for $7.46 at $3.99 a pound, and a two pound package of Jarlsberg Lite sliced cheese for $7.39 for $57.30 total.  I then returned home, and I used the cart that I keep in the back of my Volvo to bring up my purchases.  Since Costco is a membership club, they try to keep expenses down, so they do not give one bags, but one uses old corrugated cardboard case boxes.  I put away my purchases, and I stored the three cases of food behind the Harvard Veritas chair in the kitchen.  I noticed one can buy a 1000 packages of Splenda for $20,  for $9 one can get two pounds of breaded butterfly shrimp, one can get 16 ounces of Dutch Gold honey for $6, and a Dutch Gouda cheese is $8 a pound.  One can get a cable modem surge protector power supply strip for $20.  One can buy vitamins in large bulk containers.  One can get a 4 gigabyte USB type storage device for $70.  One can get a 80 gigabyte external drive for $110.  A 19 inch Princeton LCD flat panel monitor is $300.  Of course at Costco, it is not really what you need, but what one can afford.  One can also get a three pack of smoke detectors.  I then put the cart back in my station wagon.  At the new shopping mall next to Costco in Port Chester, New York, they have a Lowes movie theatre complex, a Panaera restaurant, and a new Marshalls Womens Clothing - Retail Womens Clothing - Mens Clothing wholesale clearance shopping store.   Thus as Port Chester, New York shopping get more upscale, the state of Connecticut tax department loses money and New York gains.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/29/05 Thursday 1:35 P.M.:   I ate breakfast of a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out to my 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/29/05 Thursday 1:15 P.M.:  I was awake at 12:30 P.M., when I had a no person telephone call.  I booted the primary computer CMOS, and I changed the "Frequency/Voltage Control" setting to "Spread Spectrum Modulated" to enabled, "CPU Host Clock Control" to disable, and "FDRAM Clock (MHz) to "200-DDR400" for my DDR400 memory.  The last setting that I changed, one has to be careful, because if one does not have DDR400 memory, one can damage the computer.  At that setting with the "CPU Host Clock Control" set at Disable, the "CPU Host Frequency (MHz)" automatically sets to 166.  Thus there is no real change, but it is a safer setting and one can have "Spread Spectrum Modulated" set at enable.  The system runs slightly cooler with Current System Temp at 33 degrees C. instead of 36 degrees C., and the Current CPU temp 51 degrees C. instead of 53 degrees C..  This is for my motherboard GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Products 7VT600P-RZ with CPU-World: AMD Sempron 3000+ - SDA3000DUT4D (SDA3000BOX) CPU.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/29/05 Thursday 6:05 A.M.:  I worked with Vista beta 2 build 5270 for the last few hours www.geocities.com/mikelscott/visbeta.htm .  I ate a piece of pumpkin pie with a few tablespoons of Kraft lite frozen cool whip topping.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.   CIO

Note:<888> 12/29/05 Thursday 2:45 A.M.:  On Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 USB WebCam Video Web Camera - 961239-0215 for $49.95 and normally it is twice the price Logitech QuickCam® Pro 4000 and it is USB 2.0 and 1.3 megapixel, but I am not sure if that is on the net or not, but it is a good price, and it is not refurbished but new with full Logitech guarantee, and I also ordered 2 Netgear 10/100Mbps PCI Network Interface Card FA311R for $7.95 each refurbished, since I only have thrift shop network cards in my primary computer at the moment.  Thus the total order was $65.85, and UPS tracking is UPS Package Tracking Justdeals.com Logitech 4000 USB Webcam and 2 Netgear LAN cards .  Is Windows Vista Out of Sync? .  I went through my email.  My Sale at L.L.Bean still has not shipped yet.  I will now boot into Vista and check out some Vista Newsgroups.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/29/05 Thursday 2:15 A.M.:  When I got the new motherboard this past June, I updated the Bios to October 10, 2004, which is the most recent bios.  Since the Bios was updated, the AMD Sempron 3000 processor works with it.  It is necessary to have the updated bios for it to work.  I rebooted in the CMOS setup, and according to the PC Health status information in the bios, my current system temperature is 36 degrees Celsius, and my current CPU temperature is 53 degrees Celsius.  I think the CPU warning shutdown temperature is set at 55 degrees Celsius, but during warmer months, it could be set to 60 degrees Celsius.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/29/05 Thursday 1:45 A.M.:   I searched for some bargains to now avail.  I then did some research on my computer.  This is the information on the processor CPU-World: AMD Sempron 3000+ - SDA3000DUT4D (SDA3000BOX) and this is my motherboard GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Products 7VT600P-RZ . According to the motherboard manual for my Frequency/Voltage control for my Bios setup, which I had set on auto, I could increase my system's performance by changing "CPU Host Control" from disable to enable, which I did.  I then set my "CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) to 166.  Then since I have DDR400 memory in my computer, I changed "Fdram Clock (Mhz) to "200-DDR400".  I am not overclocking the computer, I am just setting it for the components that I am using.  I will now reboot again to check what the CPU temperature is from the BIOS.  It all seems to be running just fine, and a little bit quicker with the Bios change.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/28/05 Wednesday 10:00 P.M.:  I cut off the last two 3/8th inch thick slices of the Boars Head cooked boneless breast of turkey white meat, and I put them on a microwave proof dinner plate with a double portion of my stuffing and the last portion of the Near East rice pilaf with wild mushrooms, and I put the plastic microwave cover on the plate, and I put the plate in the General  Electric microwave oven.  I ran it on two reheat cycles.  Before doing that, I steamed a combination of broccoli crowns, baby carrots, and a small fresh mushrooms, which I put in  a dish with a little bit of olive oil.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO  

Note:<888> 12/28/05 Wednesday 8:00 P.M.:  For bright light big city folks without night vision Surplus Computers CES11033  - Ultra Bright 28 LED Compact Flashlight (Blue) w/case $17 free shipping .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/28/05 Wednesday 7:50 P.M.:  While I was at Staples in Old Greenwich, Connecticut today, I saw someone driving a new German foreign car BITTER AUTOMOBILE Germany .  It sort of looks like a souped up Camaro.  Since it is on the road here, I guess one is allowed to drive them here.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/28/05 Wednesday 7:45 P.M.:  I put away the laundry.  I really can not afford to buy anything more on the internet.  I really should get over to Costco www.costco.com in Port Chester, New York some time, and I could buy a case of Hormel steakhouse beef stew and maybe some a case of olives or some other food items that I use regularly.  The do not sell a case of beans, since Costco it is sort of an upscale clientele, although they do have good prices on bulk items.  A steak is out of the question, particularly since in the winter, my air conditioner is sealed up, so I can not exhaust cooking smoke from the kitchen broiler, and I do not want to risk setting off the central building fire alarm.  They have filet of salmon there, but at I do not really want buy it in three pound packages.  The best thing for a quick meal for four people is two broiled medium size chickens for about $7.  Of course walking through Costco's vast warehouse on two levels can take a bit of time, so I do not have the time to go over this evening.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/28/05 Wednesday 6:50 P.M.:  I woke up at 11 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I picked up my mail downstairs, and I threw out some garbage, and I brought up the small cart from my Volvo.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I used the cart to take down the case of paper from Staples 84 bright and not 92 bright Staples.com®. that was easy™. Staples® 8 1/2" x 11", LETTER-Size Copy Paper, Case for $22.94 and a $1.38 tax for $24.32 total  that was delivered by UPS yesterday when they had free shipping.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and everything is half price.  I then drove over to Staples in Old Greenwich, and for a $1 more and .06 tax for $25.38 total with the returned paper, I got Staples.com®. that was easy™. Staples® 8 1/2" x 11", LETTER-Size Bright White Multiuse Paper, Case which is 97 bright instead of 84 bright.  I then bought a box of Staples.com®. that was easy™. 9" x 12" Recycled Envelopes, Clasp Closure, Brown Kraft for $4.79 plus .29 tax for $5.08 total.  I then drove out to Tod's Point, and I chatted with some dog walkers and bicycle riders at the southeast parking area.  I then went back to Staples in Old Greenwich, and I bought a 2006 calendar with photographs of different horses each month for $9.99 plus .60 tax for $10.59 total.  I then went downtown in central Greenwich briefly, and I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then returned home.  I used my cart to bring up my purchases.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 15 minutes to go on the dry cycle.   I put clean linens on the bed.  I put $5 on my MacGray laundry card, and I have $16.65 left on it.  I took down the old 2005 Norman Rockwell calendar from the back of my apartment entrance door that last year was free from the West Putnam Avenue Shell station, and I put up the 2006 horse calendar.  I opened up the case box of paper, and I put the ten 500 sheet packages of paper inside the chest underneath the television in the living room.  One has to move the chair, telephone books, and spare Perrier to access it.  However, it is safely stored in a dry place off the floor.  The clamp binders that I received yesterday, I put in a red Smead box on top of the center hallway bookcase, and the clasp envelopes are in their box on top of the left hallway bookcase.  I threw out the blue and yellow Staples case box, since I have no room to use it for  storing files.  One of these days, I should clean out my file cabinets.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/28/05 Wednesday 12:10 A.M.:  I went through my email.  The computer seems to be running just fine with the new AMD Sempron 3000 processor and the additional PNY 512 MB 3100 memory chip for 1536 MB total.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I will first eat piece of pumpkin pie with Kraft lite cool whip frozen topping.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/27/05 Tuesday 11:40 P.M.:  NASA - NASA TV Landing Page .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/27/05 Tuesday 11:15 P.M.:  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Europe set to launch Galileo era  and count down one hour SSTL Website .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/27/05 Tuesday 10:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I cut off two 1/4 inch thick slices of the Boars Head cooked boneless breast of turkey white meat, and I put them on a microwave proof dinner plate with a double portion of my stuffing and a portion of the Near East rice pilaf with wild mushrooms, and I put the plastic microwave cover on the plate, and I put the plate in the General  Electric microwave oven.  I ran it on two reheat cycles.  Before doing that, I put out the remaining quarter of Ocean Spray cranberry sauce in a bowl.  I also steamed a combination of broccoli crowns, baby carrots, and a small fresh mushrooms, which I put in  a dish with a little bit of olive oil.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I chatted with a relative in the Philadelphia area, their whole household has come down with colds.  CIO      

Note:<888> 12/27/05 Tuesday 8:20 P.M.:   I cleaned up the bedroom work area.  I will not change the Northgate Syntax backup computer processor, until I have tested the new one for a few days or week.  I put the AMD XP Athlon 2000 in the Sempron 3000 packaging.  I noticed on the case of paper that was delivered, it is 84 bright and not 92 bright Staples.com®. that was easy™. Staples® 8 1/2" x 11", LETTER-Size Copy Paper, Case for $22.94 and a $1.38 tax for $24.32 total with free shipping.  They have this item on sale this week Staples.com®. that was easy™. Staples® 8 1/2" x 11", LETTER-Size Bright White Multiuse Paper, Case , which I could check with Staples in Old Greenwich to see if I can exchange it.  It is not worth sending back.  I have a cart that I can use to move it around.  I also got the 10 clamp binders.  I will now boot in Vista beta 2 build 5270 to install the Sempron, and then I will reboot back into XP.  http://www.bnyonline.com/ has not worked most of this afternoon.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/27/05 Tuesday 7:40 P.M.:  I opened up the primary computer in the bedroom, and I installed the third PNY 512 MB 3200 memory chip.  I used a grounding strap to ground myself to the CPU chassis, and I also wore my slippers with the rubber soles without socks.  I then waited for UPS, and I watched some television about the Triple Crown of Horse racing and the landscaping of the Capitol grounds.  At about 6:40 P.M., UPS delivered my three packages.  I opened up the AMD Sempron 3000+ 512K Cache 333MHz FSB Socket A Processor SDA3000BABOX at TigerDirect.com that I had purchased for $109.99 plus $6.99 UPS ground shipping for $116.98 total, and it was packed with warnings that once one opened its plastic packaging, one could not return it.  I then removed the CPU cooler from the old AMD Athlon XP 2000 processor, and I removed the old processor while wearing the same grounding strap connected to the CPU chassis and the rubber sole shoes without socks.  I then opened up the new CPU packaging, and I installed the new CPU.  I cleaned off the old CPU grease from the CPU cooler base with some medical gauze.  I then opened up a new tube of CPU grease, and I put enough on to cover the small square in the middle which touches with the cooler.  I handled the CPU by the edges when installing it.  I then reattached the CPU cooler carefully making sure it is positioned properly.  I then did a test starting up the CPU to make sure the fan worked properly which I had not detached.  After a few seconds the CPU Beeped, which means that it was working properly.  I then turned it off, and I double checked the wires inside the case.  I then put the cover on it, and I carried it back to the living room.  I first attached the primary AGP monitor cable and the keyboard and mouse cables along with the power cable, and then I did a test, and I got the CMOS screen showing a Sempron 3000 with 1.5 gigabytes of memory.  I then shut down the computer, and I reattached all of the cables at the rear, which is easy when they are labeled, but one still has to fish for some of them.  I then repositioned the CPU back in its normal position, along with the other items around it.  I then started up the system without any problems, and it all seems to be working just fine.  Windows XP Professional recognized the AMD Sempron 3000 with plug and play without any problems.  I was asked for my CD for Product Activation for FrontPage 2002, but XP did not ask for product activation.  Thus I have completed the primary elements of my new computer building project www.geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm which started last May 2005.  It all seems to be running just fine.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/27/05 Tuesday 5:00 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer.  I will then disconnect it from its cables, and label the USB cables for easy reinstallation.  I will then move it to the bed in the bedroom to have it ready to install the new processor.  I have the backup computer to work with while I wait for UPS to arrive.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/27/05 Tuesday 4:25 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  At Sale at L.L.Bean,  I ordered a Dress Thomson color Scotch Plaid Flannel Shirt regular size XX large for $19.95 Scotch Plaid Flannel Shirt: Chamois, Flannel, Wool and Lined at L.L.Bean and a Rain Forest color Chamois Cloth Shirt, Buffalo Plaid, Tall size XX large for $16.95 Chamois Cloth Shirt, Buffalo Plaid: Chamois, Flannel, Wool and Lined at L.L.Bean plus $5.95 UPS ground shipping for $42.85 total.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/27/05 Tuesday 3:25 P.M.:  Earlier, I charged up the four Radio Shack AA metal hydride rechargeable batteries in the Radio Shack battery charger, and I put them back in the Vivitar digital camera.  I just showered, and I cleaned up.  By 6 P.M., if UPS is not here yet, I will disconnect the primary computer, and have it set out on the bed in the bedroom to install the new CPU.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/27/05 Tuesday 2:00 P.M.:  I was up at 11:30 A.M., when I had a telephone call from Trans Western publishing about whether I received my telephone book delivery, which I said I thought I did.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  While eating breakfast I did a C: drive to D: drive backup of the primary computer partition with Microsoft Windows XP Professional Automatic System Recovery.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I threw out some garbage, and I picked up the mail.  I guess I will spend the rest of the afternoon waiting for UPS UPS Package Tracking On Case of Paper and Clamp Binders from www.staples.com and UPS Package Tracking TigerDirect AMD Sempron 3000 .  When installing the new processor and memory, I have to label the USB cables with the white masking tape when I disconnect them, so I can replace them in the same order when I reattach the CPU.  I will take off my socks and wear my rubber sole house slippers and the grounding strap.  It should not take too long to install.  Once I have the primary computer back up and running, I will install the AMD Athlon XP 2000 processor in the Northgate Syntax backup computer removing the AMD Duron 1600.  The hardest part of the whole procedure is moving the primary computer CPU to the bedroom bed to work on it, since the primary computer CPU weighs about 50 pounds.  CIO  

Note:<888> 12/27/05 Tuesday 3:45 A.M.:  I worked in Vista www.geocities.com/mikelscott/visbeta.htm .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will eat a piece of pumpkin pie with Kraft lite cool whip topping.  I will have some iced tea with it.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will be going to bed soon.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/26/05 Monday 10:40 P.M.:  Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas Broadcast linked from Welcome to the official web site of the British Monarchy , BBC News Player Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas 2005 Broadcast , and other links BBC NEWS | UK | Queen reflects on year of tragedy and  BBC NEWS | UK | Royal message is 73-year tradition .  I will now boot into Vista beta 2 build 5270. CIO

Note:<888> 12/26/05 Monday 9:35 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.  I cut off two 1/4 inch thick slices of the Boars Head cooked boneless breast of turkey white meat, and I put them on a microwave proof dinner plate with a double portion of my stuffing and a portion of the Near East rice pilaf with wild mushrooms, and I put the plastic microwave cover on the plate, and I put the plate in the General  Electric microwave oven.  I ran it on two reheat cycles.  Before doing that, I put out half of the remaining Ocean Spray cranberry sauce in a bowl.  I also steamed 8 fresh Brussels sprouts, which I put in  a dish with a little bit of olive oil.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   The pumpkin pie is ready to eat, but I will have to wait until later, since I am full.  I left a message with an associate.  I will be staying in tomorrow, since I will be waiting for three packages to be delivered by UPS UPS Package Tracking On Case of Paper and Clamp Binders from www.staples.com and UPS Package Tracking TigerDirect AMD Sempron 3000 .CIO 

Note:<888> 12/26/05 Monday 8:10 P.M.:  I took the Mrs. Smith's pumpkin pie out of the oven, and I set it out on a wire rack to cool for two hours.  I put two of the strings of 20 lights on my small artificial Christmas tree, so there are 40 small Italian lights on it all together.  I connected it up with a 15 foot extension cord that I have connected to the power strip on the floor by the DeLonghi radiator by the stereo system chair at the far end of the brass and glass coffee table, and there is a switch on that ground fault interrupted power switch to turn it on and off.  They do not turn on and off with the apartment lights.  I posted these pictures

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/christmas-tree-1-122605.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/christmas-tree-2-122605.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/christmas-tree-3-122605.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/christmas-tree-4-122605.JPG

 .  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/26/05 Monday 7:00 P.M.:  The defratmentation of the Vista beta drive quit at 26%, so I quit the deframentation program.  I went out after the last message.  I threw out the garbage.  I took the jump start system with me, but the car started up without any problems.  When I returned in the dark, I noticed the rear compartment area light was turned on, so I turned it off.  Maybe that is what caused the battery to go down after three days without using the car.   Possibly it is not the alarm system.  I went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  The new train station overpass elevator is not yet installed.  After my walk, I sat out briefly.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I chatted with another waterfront regular.  I then went by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by CVS, and I bought two one liter bottles of CVS Professional Oral Rinse alcohol free for $2.49 each plus .30 tax for $5.28 total.  I need something else that they were out of.  I chatted with another waterfront regular.  I then went by the ATM machine again at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then drove over to CVS at the Riverside Shopping plaza, and I bought buy one get one free of CVS Glucosamine Chondroitin triple strength 120 capsules for $35.99 both, four 20 clear light boxes of MB Christmas tree lights stings for .65 each box plus .16 tax for $38.75 total.  I then went by the Food Emporium at the Riverside shopping center, and I bought a 10 ounce box of fresh whole mushrooms for $2.49, and two 1.75 quart containers of Edy's low fat slow churn coffee ice cream for $2.74 each for $7.97 total.  I then returned back to my apartment, where I discovered the rear compartment light of my 11 year old Volvo station light was left on.   I guess in the daytime, I had not noticed it.  I would have thought I would have noticed it in the rear view mirror, but I have not been driving much at night anymore.  I put away my purchases.  I started cooking a Mrs. Smith's frozen 37 ounce pumpkin pie, which I have to let cool on a wire rack for 2 hours, after I cook it.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/26/05 Monday 3:00 P.M.:  I did some work in www.geocities.com/mikelscott/visbeta.htm .  I will shut down the computer shortly after I defragment the Vista partition from the XP system.  I will shower and clean up while doing this, and I will go out after that to go for a drive and make sure my car battery is fully charged.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/26/05 Monday 1:55 P.M.:  At this point there was no point in ordering gigabyte LAN cards for $4 more, since if even in March 2006, I changed to the faster Optimum at 30 mbps, my Siemens Speedstream router still only goes up to 100 mbps, so I do not think it would make a difference.  I ordered the newer ones for better compatibility with the operating system in terms of drivers.  I checked the weather outside.  I might go out in a little while, but first I have to boot to Vista beta 2 build 5270 to set up its Vista beta newsgroups and install the Weather Pulse program.  I will not be booted into Vista too long.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/26/05 Monday 1:25 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  Since I really have not yet invested in a good computer internet web cam, I ordered Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 USB WebCam Video Web Camera - 961239-0215 for $49.95 and normally it is twice the price Logitech QuickCam® Pro 4000 and it is USB 2.0 and 1.3 megapixel, but I am not sure if that is on the net or not, but it is a good price, and it is not refurbished but new with full Logitech guarantee.  I also ordered 2 Netgear 10/100Mbps PCI Network Interface Card FA311R for $7.95 each refurbished, since I only have thrift shop network cards in my primary computer at the moment.  Thus the total order was $65.85 with free UPS shipping.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/26/05 Monday 11:00 A.M.:  The khaki pants I got for Christmas are waste 40 inches 32 inches length which are two inches two long, so I will have to exchange them at T.J. Maxx www.tjmaxx.com for waste 40 inches length 30 inches.  There is one on Route 7 in South Wilton, Connecticut that I can go to some time, when it is less busy.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  Since Christmas is over I turned the heat back down to save money.  I lowered the living room thermostat from 78 to 76 degrees Fahrenheit, and I lowered the bedroom thermostat from 76 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will now go through my email.  CIO   

Note:<888> 12/26/05 Monday 9:15 A.M.:  I am making up a fresh batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 12/26/05:

Note:<888> 12/26/05 Monday 8:35 A.M.:  I chatted with a relative after the last message.  I woke up at 9:30 P.M., and I chatted with a relative.  I opened a Christmas package from a relative, and I got a pair of reddish plaid leisure pants, a pair of khaki pants with bid pockets, and three pairs of beige dress socks.  I made Scott's Stuffing Recipe for Arnold Premium Stuffing using Arnold's premium stuffing with sage and onion.  I also made up a 6 ounce box of Near East rice pilaf mix with wild mushrooms using a tablespoon of olive oil and following the instructions.  I also steamed 7 fresh Brussels sprouts 15 minutes.  I also  mixed together and heated a 10.5 ounce can of Campbell's turkey gravy and a 10.5 ounce can of Campbell's mushroom gravy and heated for 15 minutes heating time about half of the time on simmer.  I cut two 1/4th inch thick slices of the Boars Head cooked boneless breast of white turkey meat, and I put it on a microwave proof plate with microwave plastic lid, and I heated on power level 6 of 10 in the General Electric microwave oven for 1 minute 45 seconds.  I took the plate with the warm slices of turkey, and I filled it up with generous portions of the rice and stuffing, and I put a lot of the gravy over the turkey.  I put a little bit of olive oil on the steamed Brussels sprouts in a side dish.  I also had in a side dish 1/2 of 16 ounce can of cold Ocean Spray whole cranberry sauces.  I put the remaining  cranberries, gravy, stuffing, and rice in separate Rubbermaid containers in the refrigerator.  I ate the meal with a glass of iced tea.  I then went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I washed the Christmas dinner dishes.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO   

Note:<888> 12/25/05 Sunday 2:10 P.M.:  Since the last message, I worked with Microsoft Windows Longhorn Vista Beta 2 build 5270 www.geocities.com/mikelscott/visbeta.htm .  I chatted with  a couple of relatives about 9 A.M..  I ate four 1 inch by 1 inch by .25 inch pieces of mozzarella cheese.  I have been awake for 29 hours, so I will go to bed shortly.  I will make my Christmas dinner the day after Christmas.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/25/05 Sunday 5:30 A.M.:  Since the last message, I worked with Microsoft Windows Longhorn Vista Beta 2 build 5270 www.geocities.com/mikelscott/visbeta.htm .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/25/05 Sunday 2:15 A.M.:  Merry Christmas http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/xmas2005.htm .  I relaxed a bit.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/24/05 Saturday 11:55 P.M.:  BBC NEWS | Health | Grapefruit 'may cut gum disease' .  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/24/05 Saturday 11:10 P.M.:   When one lives in the tropics, one has to keep their beach house villa clean SearchResults Power Washers, with one on sale for a C note .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/24/05 Saturday 11:05 P.M.: Formal tropical wear shirt Save on the Ralph Lauren Multi-Stripe Custom-Fit Shirt at SmartBargains.com .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/24/05 Saturday 10:50 P.M.:  I just heard a thunking sound on the rain patio roof outside.  Maybe it is Santa Claus NORAD Tracks Santa 2005 .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/24/05 Saturday 10:45 P.M.:  I took a frozen 18.5 ounce Freschetta http://www.freschetta.com/  Brick Oven 5 Italian Cheese pizza, and I modified it.  I cut it into four equal size squares, and I laid them out on a baking sheet.  I then grated with a metal hand grater four ounces of Polly-O http://www.kraftfoods.com/pollyo/ low fat mozzarella cheese, and I spread it over the pizza.  I then sprinkled it generously with Italian spices, oregano, and garlic powder.  I then spread about a 1/8th of a cup of olive oil around it.  I then sliced a medium onion into about 1/32nds inch thick slices, and I spread them around the pizza.  I then cut 30 large black pitted California olives in half lengthwise, and I spread the 60 olive halves inside half down over the pizza.  I sprinkled about a third of a cup of Kraft www.kraft.com grated parmesan cheese over the pizza, and then I sprinkled about another 1/8th of a cup of olive oil over the pizza.  I then put the tray on the middle rack in the Farbeware convection oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit, and I baked it 17 minutes.  I then ate it off a dinner plate with a knife and fork.  I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  Thus it was more like a 7 cheese Greek pizza.  CIO  

Note:<888> 12/24/05 Saturday 8:55 P.M.:  I have a new large photograph album with multicolor candy cane stripes that I bought a year ago at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop for $3.50.  Since all of my photograph albums in the center hallway bookcase are filled up as well as the shelf, I used the new photograph album for the pictures that I had developed, and I put it on the back of the down sofa by the French antique reproduction chair.  Having been a professional photographer, I like taking photographs, when I have the time.  However, although they seem to sell a lot of cameras in this area, they seem to prefer the general public to not spend too much time in public taking photographs for some odd reason.  I guess a lot of people prefer their privacy.  Also in a world where television addicted people focus on celebrities, there are usually a lot of people whom look like other people, whom really do not like being bothered by the celebrity press, since many of them might hold professional occupations, which frequently are more valuable, and they can not waste their time with media people, since many professional people in this area are frequently busy a great deal of the time, and their time is valuable.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/24/05 Saturday 8:30 P.M.:  I was awake at 9 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and the battery on my Volvo was low from not starting it for several days, so I had to use the jump start device to start it up, and I brought it with me.   I went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a six pack of Arnold New York Everything bagels for $1.85.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went by CVS, and the car was charged up enough to turn it off.  I left a 24 exposure 35 mm roll of film from my May 2005 vacation to Vero Beach, Florida to be developed.  It has pictures of myself and my family together on my 55th birthday.  I bought two 7 ounce packs of black licorice twists for $1.39 each, a 16 pack of Energizer AAA batteries for $4.99 with a $4 off CVS cash register coupon, a 12 foot Southwestern Bell telephone line cord with plugs for $3.19 plus .66 tax for $11.62 total.  I then took a walk around the central Greenwich Avenue back street and downtown area.  I stopped by the 70% off rack at the Greenwich Hardware store.  I used the ATM machine at the Putnam Trust Bank of New York branch on Greenwich Avenue.  I chatted with a couple of local observers and a visitor from Florida.  I returned to CVS, and I picked up my one hour photos  for $7.19 less a $3.50 off CVS cash register coupon for one hour photo processing and a 8 pack of Energizer AA batteries for $3.97 plus .46 tax for $8.12 total.  So far I have had year to date savings at CVS of $701.92.  I then drove back down by the waterfront.  I then drove over to Tod's Point in Old Greenwich to charge up the Volvo battery some more.  The 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon has a new Deka battery that cost about $180 at Greenwich Exxon last February, but since I drive so little and hardly at all on the highway, I do not charge it up much, and the Volvo also has a alarm system which seems to draw down the battery.  I reset the Volvo radio too.   At Tod's Point, I stood out at the southwest parking area for a while.  I then went over to the southeast parking area, and I walked out to the southeast point for a while, and I sat out on a nice day enjoying the view.  I then went by Porricelli's Old Greenwich Food Mart, and I bought a 12 ounce tub of Kraft lite Cool Whip topping for $2.49, a 8 quart box of Alba instant non fat dried milk for $6.99, a 6.3 ounce box of Near East rice pilaf with herbs and wild mushrooms for $1.99, a cooked boneless Boar's Head portion of white turkey meat at $5.99 a pound for $7.73, two Granny Smith apples at $1.99 a pound for $1.91, a red pepper at $4.99 a pound for $1.85, a two pound bag of yellow onions for $2.49, a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $2.50, a 12 ounce tub of Brussels' sprouts for $2.50 for $30.45 total.  I then returned back to the central downtown Greenwich, and I sat out for a while.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I went by Zen stationary, and I bought a "Aces High" scratch card for a dollar, but I did not win.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Service Exxon center next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $15 of premium unleaded gasoline at $2.779 a gallon for 72 miles driving since the first of the month at 16.2 miles per gallon at an average speed of 10 miles per hour.  I then returned home, and I brought up my groceries and the jump start system, and I picked up the mail on the way up.  I put away the groceries.  I used the 12 foot telephone cable to connect the Sharp fax machine to the Optimum Voice telephone connection module, which should be a better connection.  I put the two six foot cables with the splice connector in the top drawer of my nightstand with other telephone parts.  Thus I found out today that quart package boxes of dried milk are cheaper at the Greenwich Food Mart .  I do not drink milk regularly anymore, but I do use it on my oatmeal and in my coffee.  CIO   

Note:<888> 12/24/05 Saturday 1:10 A.M.:  I ran Ad-awareSE.  UPS tracking on case of paper and clamp binders from Staples UPS Package Tracking On Case of Paper and Clamp Binders from www.staples.com .  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists find 'mass dodo grave' .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Well, it is nice for now to have the apartment a little bit warmer, but last year when I did the same around the Christmas season, by the time I got the bill in January, I had to turn back the heat again.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/24/05 Saturday 12:30 A.M.:  I finished going through my email.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/24/05 Saturday 12:30 A.M.:  Volcán de Colima México, fotos de volcanes .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/23/05 Friday 11:15 P.M.:   I then on a microwave proof plate, I put two sheets of paper towels, four strips of Oscar Meyer thick bacon and two more sheets of paper towel and the microwave plastic plate cover, and I put it in the microwave oven for five minutes.  I also toasted two pieces of Arnold multigrain bread, and I put olive oil on them.  In my omelet pan, I put a two tablespoons of olive oil and two pads of margarine, and I brought it to a simmer over medium electric heat, and I cracked three large eggs into the hot fat, and I fried the eggs until they were done medium.  I used a dinner plate on top of the pan to keep a little heat inside and warm the plate, and then I slid the three fried eggs onto the plate with four strips of cooked bacon and the toast, and I ate it all with a glass of ice tea.  I wiped the seasoned omelet pan clean with a paper towel, and I washed the dishes.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/23/05 Friday 10:20 P.M.:  I assembled the Sharp small office home office faxes | UX-B20 which was simple enough.  I installed the black ink cartridge, and I ran the alignment page.  I tried put it on the brass and glass coffee table, but I decided the Sharp fax machine was small enough to fit on the breakfast tray printer stand with the Lexmark X1185 all purpose machine.  I put two thick old Encyclopedia Britannica update volumes on the breakfast tray printer stand to raise the area above its lip, and I then put the large Life book facing towards the apartment entrance with the Lexmark X1185 facing that way.  I had to put on a longer USB cable at that location.  I then put the Sharp UX-B20 facing out perpendicular to the back of the Lexmark X1185 sitting on another large book the "Churchill Years" with a thinner larger book "The World of KLM" underneath it.  When I tested it there was line interference, which I think was coming from my Optimum Voice line being connected to the power strip ground fault interrupter, so I removed the Optimum Voice telephone line from it.  I used the Sharp 6 foot telephone cable and the 6 foot telephone cable from the ground fault interrupter connected with a female to female barrel splice, and I connected the cable from the Optimum Voice junction point by the cable modem to the Sharp UX-B20.  I set it up for the Optimum Voice telephone number 1-203-532-5474.  I sent out a couple of test faxes, and they seemed to go out all right.  From my computer I can send a fax to myself, but currently the computer fax modem is on the same Optimum Voice line.  Thus I have not received a fax yet.  To receive a fax, I also have to turn off the AT&T two line telephone answering machine, so it does not answer.  I guess once I read the instructions, I will know more.  The instructions and paperwork are sitting by it on the X1185.  It seem to be a very practical and compact machine, and it feeds the paper for faxing without any problems.  The black ink cartridge seems small, but I do not think I will be receiving that many faxes.  I moved the bric-a-brac back around on the brass and glass coffee table, but I left the hurricane globes with candles on the mahogany bureau.  I have the Sharp fax powered up from the power strip to the left of the primary computer on the coffee table that stays on all the time.  When trying it on the brass and glass coffee table, I noticed if I switched the two telephone lines on that AT&T two line telephone, it would not work, which I need to do to run it off Optimum Voice.  The Christmas tree in the Chinese rice bowl is now centered on the down sofa side of the brass and glass coffee table.  I put the Sharp Fax shipping box on top of the speaker on top of the file cabinet in the bedroom.  I threw out the Staples box with the faulty Antec speaker system which I put dumpster outside.  I move the brass Turkish candle holder with the Viennese cut glass globe on the wicker rack on the wall to the left of the primary computer.  I put the wooden pineapple on the small brass and glass end tables at the far end of the brass and glass coffee table.  Thus the apartment is a little bit neater, and my home office is more functional with the new Sharp UX-B20 fax machine.  I did not use the Radio Shack fax switch, and I disconnected it from the coffee table, and it is stored underneath the side board in the bedroom.  Pictures 

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.CIO

Note:<888> 12/23/05 Friday 5:15 P.M.:  The pair of generic speakers work just fine on the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I connected them up to the onboard sound card with a 3-Y splitter with the third feed going to the Andrea Electronics headset.  I now have to spare 2-Y splitters and audio feed line, which I will put in the second drawer down on the left side of the living room desk.  I stacked them on the window shelf behind the monitors, and I placed them and the power supplies on old plates, so if the window shelf gets damp which it sometimes does, they will not get damp.  I plugged the power supplies into a 15 foot extension cord connecting it to the Kensington Power Control panel where then can be turned on and off with one switch.  At 4:40 P.M.,  the order from Staples.com®. that was easy™. PNY 512MB PC3200 DDR Memory for $59.94 and the Staples.com®. that was easy™. Sharp UX-B20 Inkjet Plain-Paper Fax for $79.98 and Sharp small office home office faxes | UX-B20 before $50 rebate less the $20 off coupon with over a $100 order which can not be combined with other coupons for $119.92 plus $7.20 tax and free shipping for $127.12 total with filled out the Sharp $50 rebate at Staples Easy Rebates arrived UPS Package Tracking on Staples.com PNY 3200 512 MB memory and Sharp UX-B20 fax machine .  I now have to setup and test the Sharp Fax machine.  I will now install the memory in the primary computer, until I get the processor next this Tuesday AMD Sempron 3000+ 512K Cache 333MHz FSB Socket A Processor SDA3000BABOX at TigerDirect.com for $109.99 plus $6.99 UPS ground shipping for $116.98 total has shipped, and its tracking is UPS Package Tracking TigerDirect AMD Sempron 3000 .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/23/05 Friday 4:25 P.M.:  I disconnected the Advent speaker system from the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I disconnected the two sets of basic speakers from the primary computer.  I put the Creative speakers on the front side and the Monsoon speakers on the rear side port of the sound card.  I had to adjust the Creative Mixer, so the Monsoon speakers are a little bit stronger on the rear side port, so they are balanced front and rear.  The two sound card headsets also work.  I then switched the audio back to the Plantronics USB DSB500 headset.  For some odd reason with that minor change, Windows XP Professional called for Product Activation, so I reactivated it again.  I might have to do the same, when I install the new processor.  The two primary computer speaker systems sound better without the two low end pairs of speakers.  I now have to install them on the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I will throw out the old Advent speaker system in a little while out by the dumpster.  I took a 3 Y splitter and 2 Y splitter off the primary computer Creative Live MP3+ sound card in reconfiguring the speakers.  I will probably use one of them for the Northgate Syntax backup computer speaker configuration.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/23/05 Friday 2:45 P.M.:  After I showered, and I cleaned up, I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up my mail.  I made a shopping list up for my Christmas meal.  I put fresh white vinegar in the scent bowl on the living room window shelf.  I watered the plants.   Every year at Christmas Time, I put new Alkaline 9 volt batteries in my three smoke detectors in the apartment.  One is in the bedroom at the entrance, and I put a new Duracell alkaline 9 Volt battery in it.  Another one is in the hallway, and I put a new 9 Volt CVS Energizer alkaline battery in it.  The other one is in the living room above the chair at the apartment entrance, and I put a new Duracell 9 alkaline battery in it.  Normally the 9 volt batteries are suppose to last two years, but I replace them every year to be on the safe side.  One can use the partially used 9 volt batteries in other items such as remote controls which are not as critical.  I put the used 9 volt batteries in my used battery bag on the side board shelf in the bedroom.  I will now shut down the primary computer, and I will remove the old speaker system from the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  It is one that I bought as a clearance item about 7 years ago from Staples in Old Greenwich for $15, and I will throw it away, since it never really worked properly.  I will put the two simpler pairs of speakers from my primary computer on the Northgate Syntax backup computer, and I will leave the Creative and the Monsoon speaker systems on the primary computer, and they should work better since there is less draw on the sound card.  This will take at least a half hour.  CIO   

Note:<888> 12/23/05 Friday 1:15 P.M.:  I just remembered there is room to store the case of paper in the cabinet underneath the living room Orion television.  I cleared out that cabinet about a month ago removing the old 5.25 inch floppy disks that I had stored there, and I threw them all out in the dumpster along with five old computers.  I will store the paper out of its case box, so it is more easily accessed.  The Staples order on the clamp binders said they might have to back order them, so they might not be coming on this Tuesday.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I washed my breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I also opened up a 36 ounce bag of Eight O'clock hazelnut coffee beans, which I put in the Braun coffee grinder and in the mason jars that I store fresh coffee beans in.  Although, I do not plan to go anywhere today, I will now shower and clean up, so at least to myself, I am more presentable.  I have a roll of film that I need to get developed at CVS, and I have a 50% off CVS film processing coupon good through December 29, 2005.    CIO   

Note:<888> 12/23/05 Friday 11:40 A.M.:  I made room for the case of paper underneath the chair by the telephone table at the apartment entrance.   I just ordered 10 clamp binders for $2.48 each and $1.49 tax for $26.29 total Staples.com®. that was easy™. Staples Clamp Binder, Clear .  I use the clamp binders for binding the print outs of my notes as well as other print outs.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/23/05 Friday 10:55 A.M.:  Since I frequently have to go to www.staples.com for a package of paper, I decided to stock up, so I ordered Staples.com®. that was easy™. Staples® 8 1/2" x 11", LETTER-Size Copy Paper, Case for $22.94 and a $1.38 tax for $24.32 total with free shipping.  That is 5,000 sheets of paper.  I am not sure where I will store it, but I am sure I will figure out some place to store it.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/23/05 Friday 10:05 A.M.:  I was awake a 9:30 A.M., with a telephone call from Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.   The charge for the AMD Athlon 3000 400 Mhz that I had ordered from California has been refunded to my account.  According to this UPS Package Tracking on Staples.com PNY 3200 512 MB memory and Sharp UX-B20 fax machine is out for delivery, so I have to sit here all day waiting for them to deliver it.  They usually come later in the day this time of year, and their last delivery was at 8 P.M. for the Lexmark E238.  I am feeling better today with the warmer temperature in the apartment, but I probably should not be out in the general public risking infecting people with my flu like condition.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/23/05 Friday 12:45 A.M.:  Earlier, I ate the last 1.5 scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn coffee ice cream.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  As usual I checked in with the BBC before shutting down BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Alistair Cooke's bones 'stolen' .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/23/05 Friday 12:30 A.M.:   The Staples web site says that my order is expected for delivery today UPS Package Tracking on Staples.com PNY 3200 512 MB memory and Sharp UX-B20 fax machine , although UPS does not reflect that yet.  I am not planning to go anywhere today with my cold, so I guess I will be just sitting around waiting for UPS.  Staples, I think in this area ships out of the Hartford, Connecticut area, so technically they could deliver today.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 11:55 P.M.:  As I have said before in my notes, most all of the ink cartridges are fairly full in my inkjet printers, except the Epson Stylus 900 is about 1/5th full on the color cartridge, but I have a spare one, and it has a new black one as I recall, and I have a spare one.  I printed out about 28 Christmas letters on the HP DeskJet 842C with its new color cartridge, and I have a spare black one, and the current black one is new but old.  The HP Photosmart 1000 is 70% color and 50% black, and I have a spare black and color one.  The Epson StylusColor 880 is 69% black and 65% color, and I have a spare black and color one.  The Lexmark X1185 is new with two nearly full half size cartridges with two spare full size black and a spare full size color.  The HP LaserJet IID has a new generic cartridge with about 400 sheets used and 2600 to go with the two spare 3000 sheet cartridges.  The Lexmark E238 laser printer is new with a 1500 sheet starter cartridge.  The  Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W has a 6000 sheet toner cartridge in it with about 1250 sheets used or about 4750 left.  The HP LaserJet 6P and the HP LaserJet 4L have working cartridges, but I do not know how much life is left in them.  The Lexmark X85 does not have working cartridges, and I do not intend to install them.  Of course one should run test print outs on each inkjet printer once a month to keep the ink flowing.  Ink cartridges do also get old over time, so there is no point trying to save them forever, and the can be refilled, if they have not dried out, so it is best to refill them, when they are at least a quarter full.  Of course the ink cartridges on my Epson printers are less expensive, so it does not really pay to refill them at today's replacement prices.  However, the Lexmark and HP cartridges are more expensive, since they have the nozzles and are not just tanks.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 11:25 P.M.:  I updated www.geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm .  At the bottom of the page, I also itemized my spare ink cartridges and toner cartridges which at my cost were about $125 all together.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 10:00 P.M.:  At inkjets, inkjets, laser cartridges, Hewlett Packard, Epson, Canon, Lexmark, xerox , on my Lexmark E238 laser printer, which I have not used much yet, this replacement cartridge is available Original Lexmark 23800SW Toner Cartridge for Lexmark E238 Laser Printer .   The Sharp Sharp small office home office faxes | UX-B20 comes with a half size cartridge good for about 300 sheets.  I can either refill it, and this full size replacement cartridge is available Compatible Injet For Sharp UXC70B , UX-C70B Black Inkjet .  I have enough spare ink cartridges for my other machines which I ordered when they 40% off discounted price at www.ezinkjets.com , and for now I will only order them when I need them.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 9:15 P.M.:  In the warmer part of the country, this would be a handy item Amazon.com: Karcher K245 Electric Pressure Washer: Tools & Hardware .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 8:35 P.M.:   If one needs to find their way from here to there, try UNION CHURCH OF POCANTICO HILLS AnyWho: Internet Directory Assistance; Yellow Pages, White Pages, Toll-Free Numbers, Maps and Directions .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 8:10 P.M.:  I chatted with a friend.  I always liked the

UNION CHURCH OF POCANTICO HILLS

555 BEDFORD ROAD

NORTH TARRYTOWN NY 10591

914-631-2069

 .   So I made out a $10 check, and I mailed it to them at the mail room downstairs with my Christmas Letter and a Christmas Card, which is just about what it would cost me to drive over there to see the nice Christmas tree with lights nearby.   CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 7:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  As I recall about eight years ago, when I was more affluent, I stopped by the Union Church of Pocantico Hills over in North Tarrytown, New York North Tarrytown, New York Churches the week before Christmas instead of doing some Christmas Shopping, and I gave the minister $78 which was all the cash I had on me at the time.   When I was later stopped by the New York State Police driving out of there, because the roads had changed, and I made a left turn onto a six lane wide highway, I told the New York State Policeman, I had gone over there to give some money to the Choir Fund.  If they had used common sense and invested it wisely, they might be able to afford some more traditional Christmas Church music such as all use to enjoy listening to.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 6:50 P.M.:  Besides the Dutch at www.biltmore.com , some French people at Welcome to Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library also like to celebrate Christmas.  Also just before closing on Christmas Eve, the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: metmuseum.org use to have a little service in their Medieval court yard, so before they close at 5 P.M. on Saturday Christmas Eve around 3:30 P.M., they might still have it.  Of course most of my extended network of friends use to go to Welcome to Saint Bartholomew’s (St. Bart’s) Church in New York City just north of the Waldorf Astoria Welcome, you have arrived at the Waldorf , but since they never invited me, I use to do things like go to other churches on Christmas Eve such as The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine which I did one year after going to Christ Church Christ Church Greenwich, Connecticut here in Greenwich, but as a matter of record, I am a Presbyterian The First Presbyterian Church of Greenwich, Connecticut ( CT ) , but since most of it is presently under reconstruction, this year might be a good year for church hopping, and we still might have a connection at the First Presbyterian of New Canaan - A Community Website for Progressive Christianity .  However, here in Greenwich, Connecticut, our family always went to the Round Hill Community Church which is now separate from the First Church of Round Hill according to Greenwich, Connecticut Churches. Of course, since I would still be contagious on Christmas Eve, I do not think anyone would want to see me in church. There does not seem to be any snow in the forecast Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .    CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 6:20 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 5:40 P.M.:  White House Holidays 2005 Photo Essays , President George W. Bush and Laura Bush stand before the White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room of the White House , All Things Bright and Beautiful , and the White House Christmas Card The painting by Jamie Wyeth that portrays a wintery White House as Barney, Miss Beazley and even, Willie the cat, is displayed in the East Room. The painting is the model for this year's White House Christmas Card. White House photo by Shealah Craighead . According my my spell checker, wintery is wintry.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 5:25 P.M.:  I opened a 19 ounce can of Hormel Steakhouse beef stew, and I put it in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and I microwaved it twice on the reheat cycle.  I put it in a large soup bowl, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  CIO  

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 4:55 P.M.:  I moved the two small brass candles with hurricane globes around them from off the brass and glass coffee table to in front of the pathos plant on the mahogany bureau.  I move the bric-a-brac from off the brass and glass coffee table to on top of the small brass and glass end tables at the end of the brass and glass coffee table.  I thus have a 22 inch by 15 inch area cleared on the far end of the brass and glass coffee table opposite the down sofa, and the Christmas tree in the Chinese rice bowl is pushed a little bit nearer to the AT&T two line telephone.  I disconnected the Radio Shack fax switch, and I moved it behind the AT&T two line telephone, and I connected its power supply to the power strip on the floor underneath the sitting chair opposite AT&T two line telephone.  I have it plugged into the data port line on the AT&T two line telephone.  Right now the fax line connects to the Toshiba laptop, but when the Sharp fax machine arrives, I will connect that line to the Sharp Fax machine.  There is another port on the Radio Shack Fax switch that says TAD, which I think is a regular telephone line switch that can connect to the Toshiba laptop line.  I put the Sentry Surge Protector power strip that I found last Sunday, on the floor on the far end of the Brass and Glass coffee table by the stereo chair, and I have it connected to one of the three power supply jacks on the three way splitter with the Toshiba laptop plugged into it.  I will also plug in the Sharp fax into it.  The surge protection light comes on, so I think it works all right.  The top two plug jacks are unswitched and the lower four are switched.  The switch light does not work, but it all seems to work.  The power supply cord for the Radio Shack Fax switch is secured to the coffee table with twist ties, so it is out of the way, and the Tree of Life place mat covers the cords on the carpet.  Thus I have it all set up to install the Sharp UX-B20 fax machine, and if it does not come with a telephone cable, I need to get one to hook up the Toshiba laptop to the TAD port.  The AT&T two line telephone is connected to both the Verizon and Optimum Voice telephone systems, so depending on which line is selected, the fax machine will send and receive on that line.  About a week after New Years, when I remove the Christmas tree, there will be more room on the brass and glass coffee table, and I will move the pink Chinese rice bowl on its teak stand to underneath the small palm tree on the small brass and glass end tables at the far end of the brass and glass coffee table.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 4:05 P.M.:  The UPS tracking number on the Staples order is UPS Package Tracking on Staples.com PNY 3200 512 MB memory and Sharp UX-B20 fax machine .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 4:00 P.M.:  Once I receive the Sharp fax machine, I think the best place to put it would be on the far end of the brass and glass coffee table opposite the down sofa, so it can be easily connected to the data port on the AT&T two line telephone along with the Radio Shack Fax switch.  I will move the bric-a-brac from that location, when I install it, and I guess that means their might still be room for the Christmas tree a little closer to the AT&T two line telephone.  More than likely the Staples order will not be coming until next Tuesday along with the CPU, the day after the Boxing Day holiday on December 26, which is the day after Christmas.  In Jolly Old England, the day after Christmas is also a Holiday called "Boxing Day" when people exchange gifts, and it is also a Bank Holiday.  I also turned the heat up in the living room from 76 to 78 degrees Fahrenheit, and in the bedroom I raised it from 70 degrees to 76 degrees Fahrenheit, so it is a little bit more comfortable in the apartment.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 3:40 P.M.:  I have a Radio Shack Automatic Fax switch device that I have hooked up to my external modem, so I could transfer it to the Sharp fax machine.  I could put the Sharp Fax machine where the Epson Stylus Color 880 printer is on the bean can tea tray on top of the HP LaserJet IID, but that would mean extra telephone wires to reach that far.  I also could put it on the brass and glass coffee table where the Christmas tree is, but then any users of the sofa would not have room for tea cups or what ever on the brass and glass coffee table.  It might also fit underneath breakfast tray printer stand which holds the Lexmark X1185 machine, or I could put the Lexmark X1185 on the dining table with the Sharp Fax on the breakfast tray stand above it.  I am sure I will figure out something.  Since I am sick, I am not as sharp as I normally am.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 3:20 P.M.:  Sharp small office home office faxes | UX-B20 .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 3:15 P.M.:  I leant a neighbor a package of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s.  I had a www.staples.com $20 off discount online coupon with a Master Card purchase of over a $100, so I ordered the Staples.com®. that was easy™. PNY 512MB PC3200 DDR Memory for $59.94 and the Staples.com®. that was easy™. Sharp UX-B20 Inkjet Plain-Paper Fax for $79.98 before $50 rebate less the $20 off coupon with over a $100 order which can not be combined with other coupons for $119.92 plus $7.20 tax and free shipping for $127.12 total.  I filled out the Sharp $50 rebate at Staples Easy Rebates.  Thus I am basically getting the memory for $50, and once I receive the Sharp $50 rebate, the Sharp Fax machine for $27.12 with tax and shipping, which is a pretty could deal.  I do not own a fax machine, although I can send faxes with my computer setup.  Since I have toll free long distance with Optimum Voice, I will now be able to send and receive faxes a little bit more easily without using the computer.  I have a data telephone line port on the two line AT&T telephone, so if I hook the Sharp fax machine to it, I should be able to send or receive faxes on either line.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 1:10 P.M.:  I picked up my mail.  They are still working on installing the generator in the building or whatever it is they are doing.  I will not be going to my 3 P.M. appointment, since I am sick with the flu or a cold.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 12:15 P.M.: AMD Sempron 3000+ 512K Cache 333MHz FSB Socket A Processor SDA3000BABOX at TigerDirect.com is now $10 cheaper, so I contacted www.tigerdirect.com , and in about 72 hours, they are going to give me a $10 credit on my next order.  www.tigerdirect.com is in Miami, Florida, but they ship out Naperville, Illinois, and they also have a more northern web site Canada Computer Parts, PC Components, Desktop Computers, Laptops, Notebooks at TigerDirect.ca .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 11:45 A.M.:  My order for  AMD Sempron 3000+ 512K Cache 333MHz FSB Socket A Processor SDA3000BABOX at TigerDirect.com for $109.99 plus $6.99 UPS ground shipping for $116.98 total has shipped, and its tracking is UPS Package Tracking TigerDirect AMD Sempron 3000 .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 11:15 A.M.:  I drank a cup of green tea with lemon juice and honey.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/22/05 Thursday 10:45 A.M.:  I am still sick.  I worked with Vista beta 2 build 5270 until 9 P.M. last evening www.geocities.com/mikelscott/visbeta.htm .  I chatted with two relatives earlier.  I reheated the remaining cooked vermicelli and Ragu tomato sauce, and I put a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on it, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.   I went to bed about 10 P.M..  I was awake about 9:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, two glasses of a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed, but I did not put the display pillows back in position in case I need to rest some more.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/21/05 Wednesday 4:50 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  I will now boot into Vista beta 2 build 5270 and start configuring it some more.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/21/05 Wednesday 3:45 P.M.:  I woke up at 10 A.M. this morning, and I had a bad cold and sniffles.  I chatted with a relative, and I drank a glass of 75% orange juice and 25% fresh filtered cold water, and I drank it with vitamins and supplements.  I went back to bed until 2 P.M., when I chatted with a relative about how to fix a clogged ink cartridge Michael Louis Scott, How to Clean and Hewlett Packard HP clogged inkjet print cartridge with print head in cartridge .  Still the best way is to refill them when they are half full before they get too low and dry out.    I bundled up warmly, and I drove over to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and then I returned home.  Since I am staying in for the day, I ate a better breakfast.  I drank two glasses of 75% orange juice and 25% fresh filtered cold water.  I then on a microwave proof plate, I put two sheets of paper towels, four strips of Oscar Meyer thick bacon and two more sheets of paper towel, and I put it in the microwave oven for five minutes.  I also toasted two halves a bagel on the inside only, and I put olive oil on the toasted side.  In my omelet pan, I put a two tablespoons of olive oil and two pads of margarine, and I brought it to a simmer over medium electric heat, and I cracked three large eggs into the hot fat, and I fried the eggs until they were done medium.  I used a dinner plate on top of the pan to keep a little heat inside and warm the plate, and then I slid the three fried eggs onto the plate with four strips of cooked bacon and the toasted bagel halves, and I ate it all with another glass of 75% orange juice and 25% fresh filtered cold water.  I wiped the seasoned omelet pan clean with a paper towel.  I then heated a microwave proof cup with water in the microwave oven on the beverage cycle, and then I put the hot water in large coffee cup with a green tea bag and a package of Splenda sweetener, and once the tea had steeped, I took out the green tea bag, and I added a little bit of lemon juice, and then I drank the green tea mixture.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I went through my mail.  I had a letter back from Buck House that I put in one of my older albums. I will now do a little bit of regular computer work, and I will start again configuring Microsoft Vista beta 2 build 5270.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/20/05 Tuesday 9:35 P.M.:  I ordered AMD Sempron 3000+ 512K Cache 333MHz FSB Socket A Processor SDA3000BABOX at TigerDirect.com for $109.99 plus $6.99 UPS ground shipping for $116.98 total.  I will shut down the computer shortly, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/20/05 Tuesday 8:50 P.M.:  This use to be offered Gigabyte 7VT600P-RZ Via Socket A ATX Motherboard and AMD Sempron 2800+ Processor in Canada at TigerDirect.ca  which is the same as my motherboard which will also takes a AMD Sempron 3000+, so I will probably order this AMD Sempron 3000+ 512K Cache 333MHz FSB Socket A Processor SDA3000BABOX at TigerDirect.com , when the funds are once again made available.  It seems to be the best price available on the internet for the AMD Sempron Socket A 3000+ .   This is the spec list that says it will work GIGABYTE - Motherboard - CPU Support List 7VT600P-RZC .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/20/05 Tuesday 7:35 P.M.:  I have finally received email from E-agePC that they have cancelled my order for the CPU, and they will refund the $104.55 back to my debit card.  However, it still has not shown up on my card as of yet. 

Note:<888> 12/20/05 Tuesday 7:05 P.M.:  I chatted with one of two relatives whom traveled today.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/20/05 Tuesday 6:35 P.M.:  I put the two orange pillows on the back of the long green sofa with the other smaller pillows.  I rotated the U.S.A. flag with the British Union Jack flag, so the British Union Jack flag is now flying in the hallway again.  I moved the picture of President and Laura Bush from above the inside kitchen entrance to the hallway above the weather station to the right of the sweater closet.  I moved from there the picture of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands to right side of the inside apartment entrance door.  From that location, I moved my paternal grandparents pictures to the  upper left side of the door.  I move from the center right side of the door to the upper left outside of the door on the wall the family picture frame.  I lowered the picture of the relative with a champagne bottle to beneath that.  I moved the British Royal family picture grouping to the upper right side of the door.  On the center left side of the door above the door handle, I put the 14 inch by 11 inch dark wooden glass frame that I bought today with a 5 inch by 7 inch memorial picture of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.  However with all the pictures on the inside of the apartment entrance door, it is sort of hard to find the door handle, but it is just beneath the Queen Mum picture and there are three tote bags hanging on the door handle.  QM2 - Itinerary - 2005 was back in Manhattan today before returning south.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/20/05 Tuesday 5:30 P.M.:  I chatted with a Microsoft Partner representative for a half hour after the last message.  He told me it was 56 degrees Fahrenheit in Redmond, Washington today.  I then showered, and I cleaned up.  I then went out, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a 14 inch by 11 inch dark wooden frame with glass for a dollar.   Christmas Items are half price and so is bric-a-brac.  I then went by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop, and they have men's clothes for half price and some nice furniture for half price.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought buy one get one free of 16 ounce thick slice Oscar Meyer bacon for $4.99 both.  I then returned home.  I guess I could say I literally brought home the bacon today.  I took the two orange pillows off the French antique reproduction chair covered with the white linen quilted material and the New Zealand sheep's skin in the living room by the hallway entrance.  I also exposed its thin skinny carved wooden arms, one of which on the facing left side that I repaired with Elmer's glue a number of times, and it is a much more comfortable chair than the white silk one in the Mews thrift shop for $75.  I boiled three quarts of water with a teaspoon of olive oil and a dash of sea salt.  I then boiled for 9 minutes a 16 ounce package of San Georgio vermicelli noodles.  I then drained the water off with a colander  into another pot, and I threw the hot water down the bathroom sink to clean out my shaving soap scum.  During the last five minutes of the boiling, I reheated half of the contents of a 26 ounce jar of Ragu Robusto tomato and parmesan sauce in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid in the microwave oven.  I put the other half of the cooked vermicelli noodles in a flat Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator, and the other half I put on a dinner plate with the heated tomato sauce and a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese.  I refrigerated the other half of the tomato sauce in its jar.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  My Connecticut Renter's rebate arrived in the mail today, but I will have expenses this winter that I will have to save it for.  CIO    

Note:<888> 12/20/05 Tuesday 11:20 A.M.:  I opened a 18 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder, and I put it in a plastic microwave pot with lid, and I heated it on the reheat cycle of the General Electric microwave oven.  I ate it in a large Cobalt Blue soup bowl with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will shower, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/20/05 Tuesday 10:50 A.M.:  I installed and partially configured Microsoft Vista beta 2 build 5270  http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/visbeta.htm .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/20/05 Tuesday 4:20 A.M.:  I rested until 3:30 A.M..  I finished downloading the Microsoft Vista beta build 5270, and I burned it to DVD.  One is not suppose to use it as an upgrade, but only as a new install.  However, I will boot to beta 5231 to see first if it will install as an upgrade, if not I will do a new install.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/19/05 Monday 11:15 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I rested until about 8 P.M..  I chatted with two relatives.  I rested a little bit more.  I ate 15 Town House crackers with .75 inch by 2.5 inch by .10 inch slices of Land-O-Lakes Monterey Pepper Jack cheese.  I went through my email.  The Microsoft Vista beta build 5270 is a very slow download, and it currently has over 5 hours to go.  One would think Microsoft would speed up their server, but I guess for betas it is not that important.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/19/05 Monday 4:05 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went downtown, and I went by the Detective Division and the central desk of the Greenwich Police Station, but they told me I should report the problem with the non delivery of the processor to my bank the Bank of New York which manages my MasterCard account.  I then went to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and I filled out an affidavit to have MasterCard reclaim the charge on the CPU processor that was never delivered.  It was quite a lengthy process, and it took about a half hour, and I had to have it notarized at the bank.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I noticed that all Christmas items are half price as is the bric-a-brac and some clothing items.  I then drove by the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop, but they are closed on Mondays.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought four 7 ounce packages of Armour 50% less fat brown'n serve lite original 10 fully cooked sausage links for buy one get one free for $2.19, a dozen large eggs for $1.69, two 59 ounce clear plastic containers of Tropicana Grove Stand orange juice for $2.50 each, organic Dole bananas at .99 a pound for $3.56 for $14.63 total.  I then went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a six pack of New York Everything bagels for $1.85, a 5 ounce bag of Arnold Seasoned restaurant cut croutons for $1.39 and a 5 ounce bag of Arnold Seasoned regular cut croutons for $1.39 for $4.63 total.  I then returned home, and I brought up the mail with my groceries.  I put away the groceries.  I then put three tablespoons of water in a 10 inch frying pan with lid, and I put it on a medium heat electric burner, and I cooked the package of 10 Armour sausage links for 7 minutes with the lid on them, and at the same time, I broke four large eggs, and I mixed them together in a metal bowl with a whisk with a couple of tablespoons of milk and a teaspoon of Italian seasoning, and I put in a couple of tablespoons of olive oil with three pads of margarine in a 10 inch frying pan, and I heated the fat, and I put the beaten egg mixture in the frying pan on medium high heat, and I made soft scrambled eggs by mixing them with a spatula as I cooked them.  Once the Armour sausage links had cooked 7 minutes, I removed the lid, and I added a couple of pads of margarine, and I fried them for another three minutes lightly browning them on all sides.  I also toasted two halves of a Arnold New York Everything bagel in my bagel toaster, so they were only toasted on the inside side, and I put a little bit of olive oil on each side, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I am now downloading Microsoft Vista build 5270 from http://connect.microsoft.com , and it is quite slow downloading, and it has many hours to go.  I have not heard anything from the CPU order, so I guess it is good that I cancelled it, and I filed the affidavit.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/19/05 Monday 10:40 A.M.:  I was awake at 7 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.   I emailed James Curley of Mountain Media, and I received email back from him that James Lee should be in his office by 1 P.M. Eastern Standard Time.  However, in 10 days he has not done anything about my order, so when I go out now, I will file a complaint with the Greenwich, Connecticut police department, and then I will take the complaint information to Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and I will have them let MasterCard start an investigation.  I have the paperwork already together.  I have showered, and I have cleaned up, so I will be going out shortly.  I will now shut down the computer.  My 4 P.M. appointment was cancelled today.  I just had one of those nuisance fax calls.  CIO  

Note:<888> 12/18/05 Sunday 9:35 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.  If you read www.forbes.com or www.newsweek.com , one can enter this sweepstakes http://www.virginatlanticflights.com/sweep.jsp , and possibly one would win a trip back to Jolly Old England, but once you get there, you would still need a Pound or two, unless you knew someone in London.  From what I can tell not much is happening, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Stay warm.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/18/05 Sunday 8:50 P.M.:  His Highness the Aga Khan's 69th Birthday .  I could tell you where he supposedly lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, when he is here, but it is top secret, but I was told where he lives in Greenwich, Connecticut when he is here by a taxi cab driver on the waterfront.   However, sometimes taxi cab drivers are not right.   However, since AK has over 650 homes worldwide, more than likely he would not be hanging out in this neck of the woods during the winter, since if it were a choice between Greenwich or Switzerland, more than likely he would stick close to his bankers.  However on hot days in August around the waterfront, I do see some of his alligator watchers around.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/18/05 Sunday 6:50 P.M.:  I used a rubber band to secure the PNY 512 MB USB 2.0 Attaché Pen drive Staples.com®. that was easy™. PNY 512MB Attache USB 2.0 for $30 with 3 foot USB cable cap to the drive strap at its far end.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 12/18/05:

Note:<888> 12/18/05 Sunday 6:05 P.M.:  I microwaved and ate a 21 ounce Marie Callender frozen lasagna and meat dinner, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.   I plugged in the PNY 512 MB USB 2.0 Attaché Pen drive to my 4 port USB 2.0 device, and I copied various files I wanted to save to it.  I still have 16.5 mb of file space left on it.  I also still have my 32 mb flash drive plugged into the 4 port USB 2.0 device, and I also put the 3 foot USB cable that came with the pen drive in a third port on the 4 port USB 2.0 device, and I left it in the space between my primary computer CPU and the printer stand that holds my control panels and primary right monitor.  I left the cap to the pen drive nearby it, and I put its strap around on it.  Thus it is available for transport should I need to transfer any of the files that I have stored on it.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO  

Note:<888> 12/18/05 Sunday 3:30 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  My neighbor gave me back a dollar of a pack of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s cigarettes that I leant my neighbor.  I found a wet Safe Strip surge protector strip by the building dumpster that was wet.  I will let it dry out for a week or two before I use it.  When starting my 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon, it was a little slow starting since the car had sat for three days, so I decided to take it for a drive and charge it up.  I drove by the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then drove through town, and I drove down by the waterfront.  I then drove along the waterfront over to the southwest parking area at Tod's Point.  The southwest area of Tod's Point is closed to automobile traffic and only opened to pedestrians and dogs on Sunday until 12:30 P.M..  I then drove over to the southeast parking area, and I chatted with some people from Vermont for a half hour all the time leaving my car running, so it would be more fully charged.  I then drove over to Staples in Old Greenwich, and I bought the PNY 512 MB USB 2.0 Attaché Pen drive with 3 foot USB cable for $29.94 plus a $1.80 tax for $31.74 total.  One can buy it at the store where they still had two on display or online at Staples.com®. that was easy™. PNY 512MB Attache USB 2.0 with 3 foot USB cable .  I then returned home.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I put the wet surge protector power strip on the side board in the bedroom to dry out.  I will install the PNY 512 MB Attaché pen drive shortly.  It is plug and play, so I just plug it into my USB 2.0 four port device underneath the right front of the right center monitor.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/18/05 Sunday 10:55 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  I have to start up my 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon every two to three days just to make sure the battery stays charged up.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/18/05 Sunday 10:50 A.M.:  I received a telephone call from James Curley from Mountain Media, and apparently James Lee has not been logging onto his server for www.eagepc.com to retrieve his orders, so they have not been fulfilled.  He is going to email James Lee about fulfilling the order, so I will wait to see what happens next.  I quite frankly thought the United States Post Office trucks were held up in the ice storm in the southeast.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/18/05 Sunday 10:30 A.M.:  I washed the dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  It seems that this eCommerce solutions | Website Design | Shopping Cart Software that provides the web site for Consumer Electronics, PC Accessories, Cooling, Input Devices, Networking should be ethical since MountainMedia also provides the web site for New York City Dentists, Rockefeller Dental Specialists, Manhattan, NY .  Maybe the took my processor, and they put it in one of their robots or dental patients.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/18/05 Sunday 9:30 A.M.:  I found this on Eagepc Mountain Media Launches E-Age PC Website, and I emailed Mountain Media Contact Us - Toll Free - 877.583.0300 about the problems.  I also did a Whois search of E-age PC, and I came up with this www.eagepc.com WHOIS Search provides domain registration information from Network Solutions .  There is a telephone number 626-912-8164, and I called them up, but all I got was a message in Chinese on the answering machine.  I left them a message in English on the answering machine.  I printed out all of the information I have on the order and the E-Age PC Company.  I also contacted www.ebay.com about their web site at eBay Store - eAgePC com: Storage, Case Fans DC Fans 12V 5V, Cables .  It seems like they are a large enough company that they should not have had any problems with the shipment.  Of course, the shipment could have been held up by the ice storm in the southeast of the United States, and it could have been delivered, but when the post man was here yesterday, he did not say anything about it.  I will ask him the next time I see him.  It is all a mystery to me as to why, the it has not arrived yet and why the merchant does not reply.  When I checked with the City of Industry, California, they said nothing unusual had happened out there.  Maybe it is some sort of Chinese Holiday for the last nine days.  I printed out two copies of all the information on the subject matter, so if I have to go to the police on this Tuesday after the mail arrives, I will have it available.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/18/05 Sunday 8:40 A.M.:  I chatted with 1-800-CALL-BNY twice, and they said they can launch an investigation, but first I will have to file a police report with the Greenwich, Connecticut Police Department Greenwich Town Departments - Police Department , and then I have to take it to my local Bank of New York The Bank of New York branch, and they will start an investigation.  I also filed a merchant complaint with www.mastercard.com .  I also chatted with the Le Puente, California police department Google Local - police department loc: City Of Industry, CA , and they did not know what www.ibm.com was.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I guess I will wait until after the mail arrives on this Tuesday to start the investigation, and I will get the documentation together, and I will file it with the Greenwich Police Department and the Bank of New York.  It would seem to me that the Chinese that run Consumer Electronics, PC Accessories, Cooling, Input Devices, Networking have messed up, and if this is the way the Chinese conduct business in this country, we might start to think twice about doing business with them.   This applies to the Red Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese, the Taiwan and Taipei Chinese, and the Chinese American community.  It seems they are taking our money and running with it instead of providing us with the items that we have ordered on the internet.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/18/05 Sunday 5:50 A.M.:  I was awake at 4 A.M..  I checked with 1-800-CALL-BNY, and I have to call them back about 7:30 A.M. about doing an investigation on my order that was not received from AMD Athlon XP-3000 2.167GHz 512K 400MHz CPU OEM, Consumer Electronics, PC Accessories that  I bought OEM for $88.40 plus $16.15 priority mail shipping and handling for $104.55 to arrive by Priority U.S.A. mail that it is coming from Hacienda Heights, California or according the Sheriffs department out there, it is the City of Industry, California.  According to eAgePC.com Customer Ratings, Reviews and Prices at ResellerRatings , there is some problem with www.eagepc.com .  Thus I also emailed them and used the form to Eagepc to also cancel the order and refund the money to my account.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/17/05 Saturday 4:05 P.M.:  I microwaved a bag of Act II popcorn, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will seek some warmth in bed and go to bed.   Ciao Amigo.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/17/05 Saturday 3:30 P.M.:  It is warm down in Cayo Hueso Live Duval Street Web Cam in Key West, Florida :: Sloppy Joe's Bar :: .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/17/05 Saturday 2:50 P.M.:  One of my neighbors had a police visit.  The neighbor regularly walks downtown in the cold weather and is older, so possibly the neighbor came down with a cold.  I went downstairs to check out the building environment, and I noticed there were dried up drops of blood in the hallway downstairs, so perhaps one of the electricians working on the diesel generator for the building cut himself yesterday.  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .   I used all of the regular ingredients.  I did not use homemade hummus.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used Land-O-Lakes Monterey Pepper Jack cheese.  I used 15 grape tomatoes and 8 pitted black California olives.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/17/05 Saturday 12:50 P.M.:  I picked up my mail, and a package was delivered to me from a relative, but the order www.eagepc.com still has not arrived.  I chatted with two relatives.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/17/05 Saturday 10:45 A.M.:  I checked the mail room downstairs twice, but the mail has not arrived yet.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/17/05 Saturday 9:45 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/17/05 Saturday 9:30 A.M.:  OptimumOnline www.optimumonline.com as of March 30, 2006 will be offering for $10 more a month for Optimum Voice subscribers or $15 more a month for non Optimum Voice subscribers Optimum Boost with 30 meg/sec internet connection where one can run a server Cable internet and modem provider- Optimum Online Boost .  I chatted with www.cablevision.com to find out.  CIO

Note:<888> 12/17/05 Saturday 8:50 A.M.:   L.L. Bean www.llbean.com clearance items with free shipping Sale at L.L.Bean .  CIO

Note:<888> 12/17/05 Saturday 8:35 A.M.:  I am half way through my email.  The Lexmark X1185 copy function was not working properly, so I uninstalled and reinstalled the software, and it is now working just fine.  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/17/05 Saturday 7:40 A.M.:  The Biggest Bucks Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate Newsletter and www.biltmore.com .  CIO 

Note:<888> 12/17/05 Saturday 7:30 A.M.:   Microsoft Office Templates: 2006 Calendars .  CIO

Note:<999> 12/17/05 Saturday 7:20 A.M.:  HP 5 MP Photosmart E317v Digital Camera with HP Instant Share - Wal-Mart , but you would need this also X Digital Media 512 MB Secure Digital Card - Wal-Mart or EDGE 1 GB Secure Digital Memory Card - Wal-Mart online only.  CIO 

Note:<999> 12/17/05 Saturday 7:10 A.M.:  I was awake at 5:30 A.M. this morning.  I had a telephone call about midnight from a relative, but I was too tired to talk.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee. I decided to give some of my other flags a little bit of flying time, so I rotated on the hallway bookcases the British Union Jack with the U.S.A. flag, so the U.S.A. flag is displayed.  I rotated the Dutch tricolor flag with the Swedish cross flag, so now the Swedish flag shows.  I have a Saudi Arabian flag, but I do not fly it very much because whenever I fly it there seems to be problems occurring.  I now have to go through my email.  CIO   

Note:<999> 12/16/05 Friday 8:00 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I ate three scoops of Edy's low fat coffee ice cream.  I turned the heat down in the bedroom to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, since it does not have to be as warm in the bedroom with the electric blanket and comforter.  Stay warm.  CIO 

Note:<999> 12/16/05 Friday 6:10 P.M.:  I opened a 18 ounce can of Progresso Sirloin and vegetable soup, and I put it in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and  I heated it on the reheat cycle of the General Electric microwave oven, and I ate it in a soup bowl with a glass of iced tea.  I finished my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out the garbage.  It seems to be all quiet on the Eastern Front.  CIO  

Note:<999> 12/16/05 Friday 1:30 P.M.:  I checked the mail, when it came, and the processor did not arrive.  However, although the order says it is shipping via United States Post Office Priority Mail, their web site About Consumer Electronics, PC Accessories, Cooling, Input Devices, Networking says they ship via www.ups.com , so maybe they will arrive later today via UPS.  However, since I paid $16 Priority Mail shipping which should be faster, maybe they shipped it via UPS ground instead.  There is no order number, but their web says they have been in the business since 1987, so I would imagine they are reliable, and their web site is run out of Saratoga Springs, New York where the Iron Mountain storage facility is nearby.  Since Hacienda Heights, California is near a lot of U.S. Government military and defense contracting facilities, they might have had to back order it, so maybe it is coming on a slow boat from Malaysia.  The processor might run a little hot in the summer, but I have the case fan and CPU fan monitors to monitor temperatures, and if it were too hot, I could put in the AMD Athlon XP 2000 processor.  Once I replace it with the new one though, I plan to put the AMD Athlon 2000 processor in the Northgate Syntax backup computer, and I will have from it the spare AMD Duron 1600 processor that I bought from www.newegg.com last summer for $40.  Thus as far as I can tell, I seem to know what I am doing with my personal computer systems based on my budget and not IBM's budget.  Since I used expensive parts, I consider it a very good home built computer.  The apartment looks clean to me, so I really do not need to do house cleaning today, but that is part of my normal Friday routine, and since I did not do it last week, I would prefer to start doing it now, and have it a bit cleaner.  Since the motto of the Dutch is "Cleanliness if Next to Godliness", we really do need to do our house cleaning instead of hanging out in that Holiday traffic jam downtown that I witnessed yesterday.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will do my house cleaning and watering the plants.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/16/05 Friday 12:55 P.M.:  According to my Gigabyte RZ 7VT600P-RZ(-C) motherboard manual, it will take a AMD Athlon XP 400 MHz processor supporting 1.4 GHz and faster.  This web site http://www.amberpcusa.com/smoreinfo.asp?iid=1627 sells the Gigabyte RZ 7VT600P-RZ(-C) motherboard with the AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 400 Mhz processor for $201.25, so they obviously work together.   Their price for the processor is $30 more than what I am paying for it Moreinfo: AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 400 Mhz Oem .  Since it is an older model processor some vendors are clearing them out, and they are harder to find.  Last summer www.newegg.com was selling the same processor for $135, and now they no longer carry it.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/16/05 Friday 11:50 A.M.:   I woke up at 9 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.   I chatted with a relative.  I noticed on the CPU order that I ordered a AMD Athlon XP-3000 2.167GHz 512K 400MHz CPU OEM, Consumer Electronics, PC Accessories that  I bought OEM for $88.40 plus $16.15 priority mail shipping and handling for $104.55 to arrive by Priority U.S.A. mail that it is coming from Hacienda Heights, California which is near Whittier, California where Richard Nixon was from and Howard Hughes maintains some sort of electronics operation, and they had the best price for the items.  More than likely since I think AMD makes it in Malaysia where it is hot, it will work in our cooler climate.   Since it is only 32 bit, it is not the latest technology AMD Athlon XP Product Information .  According to this GIGABYTE - Motherboard - CPU Support List CPU Support List of 7VT600P-RZC , the AMD Athlon XP-3000 2.167GHz 512K 400MHz CPU OEM, Consumer Electronics, PC Accessories , it will work in my computer.  The motherboard is suppose to support an AMD AthlonXP 3000+(Barton,13u) Model FSB 400, since that is what I think I ordered, it should work.  I know a lot of people are using 64 bit AMD processors, but when I first started building my computer on a limited budget last May 2005 with a little bit of birthday money that I had, I put in the new motherboard, and the AMD 64 bit processors were expensive.  If I used a 64 bit processor, I would also have to buy Windows XP Professional 64 bit which would cost between $150 and $300.  Also the 64 bit version does not support Plug and Play, and even if I had a 64 bit version running, there are hardly any 64 bit programs, so the software industry has not kept up with the hardware industry.  From my experience if you think you have the big bucks like Howard Hughes and you are going to try to compete with them in his neck of the woods, you more than likely will end up working in a Taco Bell to make ends meet.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/16/05 Friday 1:50 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I guess I will do house cleaning when I wake up later on today.  It is currently 39.9 degrees Fahrenheit and 91% humidity Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground and I guess the Big Buck girls in Belle Haven and along the waterfront can afford their own weather station Real-Time Weather , but it does not mean they can change the weather.  I actually know how to change the weather, but it costs more than this poor town can afford.  More than likely it would also change the weather elsewhere, where they could afford to change it back to their point of view.  Such things as solar mirrors and realignment of the polar axis to change weather are possible, and it has been done a number of times on the planet in pre history, but many times that was caused by natural phenomena.  Another way it warms up is if a nuclear reactor is putting out a lot of energy that people are consuming.  If you check out the real mainland weather in this out of our more tropical Long Island Sound weather at some location like Syracuse, New York (13201) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground the weather is not much different than here, but when it gets much colder in this area, Syracuse tends to be quite a bit colder than this area near Long Island Sound.  A person showed up today that also looked like my old buddy Jim Eldert, and I saw him again, but when I knew Jimmy, he told me had about 50 cousins on the farm in Casanova, New York that looked the same.  The Dutch look is fairly common look in the low lands of Europe, so many people probably have the same look.  When I knew Helen Kress Williams, she said I should keep an eye on Jimmy Eldert, but she never told me why.  She also told me that I should not be afraid of Nelson Rockefeller.  Well, anyway living in Greenwich, Connecticut all of these years, I could not figure out why any of this really mattered, since my outlook was always more of a Vanderbilt outlook.  I suppose there are other established Dutch families around in this neck of the woods.  Maybe we should start a Dutch Reform Church in Greenwich, Connecticut to just see whom shows up.  There is suppose to be one in Rye, New York, one in Tarrytown, New York, one in Syracuse, New York, one in Holland, Michigan, and there are quite a few in Manhattan such as Marble Collegiate Church, one on 2nd Avenue and about 6th street, and the old Dutch Reform church slightly north of there.  I would imagine there are a few more around somewhere.  I think Dr. Schuler's www.hourofpower.org church is an off shoot of the Reform Church of America.  Also I think anyone whom lives in New York would know that something is named after Schuller, and more than likely since in the old Dutch New Amsterdam like in many church and school organizations, everything was alphabetized in terms of names, a family like Scott were around a family like Schuller many times over the years.  Being an expert on dead wood in New England, there must be some other old similar butler trays around or possibly for sale, but I can not fine them on the internet.  Of course for the moderate income upwardly mobile office jock, this would make a handy printer stand The Bombay Company Store: Kipling Breakfast/Work Tray and once the boss let you go for being to upwardly mobile, you could have it available for another job in domestic household labor as a butler.  There use to be a Bombay Company Store http://www.bombaycompany.com/ at the Stamford, Connecticut mall, but I guess so many people in India have become so high tech, they no longer need to make furniture anymore.  Earlier I ate two scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn coffee ice cream.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/15/05 Thursday 11:40 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and it took quite a long time to find a parking place.  I finally found one behind the store.  I bought a 12 roll pack of Scott  SCOTT Brands Home Page toilet paper for $5.79, buy one get one for 50% off a CVS 50 caplet bottle of Balanced B-150 vitamins for $9.99 and $4.99, a buy one get one half off of CVS MSM 1000 mg. 60 capsules for $6.79 and $3.39, a 180 tablet bottle of CVS adult low strength 81 mg aspirin $4.79 less a $4 off CVS cash register coupon plus .11 Connecticut state sales tax for $31.85.  I did not browse too long, because I figured another busy shopper would need my parking place.  I then went by the festive Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a one foot by two foot mahogany breakfast tray with folding legs for $5 and a 6 hook over the door hanger for $2 for $7 total.  I chatted with another Dutch citizen whom speaks English, Christine Larson Edwards Vice President of Sales RE/MAX Associates, 1081 East Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut, 06878, mailto:SeeEdwards@aol.com if you need Greenwich, Connecticut real estate.  I do not know that much about Greenwich, Connecticut real estate anymore, since I have been so focused on computers and software for the last 16 years.  I then went to my usual 3 P.M. Thursday appointment.  I then returned home.  I hung the door hook rack over my bathroom door, so the folding shopping cart hangs higher on it hanging over the folding sweater drier rack that I have hanging underneath it, so the bathroom door closes all the way properly with the items hanging on them.  I then put the breakfast tray underneath the Lexmark 1185 all purpose copier on the dining table.  I raised it up a bit with the large "The Best of Life" book, so its slide out tray does not hit the breakfast tray edge.  I put the Williamsburg and the Cadillac ceramic trivets on the near corner of the tray to the eating positions, and I put the wooden pineapple on top of them, with the Turkish candle holder with Viennese cut glass globe along side of it.    I now have a little bit roomier dining table with room to put items like my readingt glasses and other small items underneath the breakfast tray that supports the Lexmark X1185 all purpose printer.  Thus the dining table looks neater.  I put the Simon Pearce Simon Pearce - Buy Hand Blown Glass and Handmade Pottery glass bowl with the two Canadian Goose wooden serving fork and spoon underneath the breakfast tray to have handy.  It is useful for larger pasta or salad meals, if one were serving a large group of people instead of just myself.  I put another duck place mat underneath the wooden tray to protect the oak table, and balance the mahogany breakfast tray.  Basically nobody can afford to use breakfast trays anymore, because for what it would cost to have staff to cook breakfast and serve it, one could get on a plane to Paris and have a croissant.  I then threw out all of the computer periodical literature, since it was interfering with closing the bathroom door, since the folding shopping cart wheel hit it on the bathroom bookcase.  I moved the bathroom bookcase items on the upper shelf which included the four unused volumes of Progress of Nations, and I put three more of them underneath the dining room table oak leaf to keep it from teeter tottering off the Northgate  Syntax backup computer keyboard drawer, since there is a lot of weight on the right side which supports the CPU and HP LaserJet 6P laser printer.  Thus there are two stacks of three of the books to support the oak leaf for the table that I support my backup computer setup on.  The are wedged between the back of the long green  Scott family sofa and the oak leaf of the oak dining table.  The oak table might have once been more valuable, but a relative painted the base part Dutch Blue, I once shot an arrow into it with my bow and arrow when I was practicing in the basement of one of our many homes that we once owned in this area.  I then removed the other items from the top of the bathroom bookcase, so there is nothing on top of it, but the brass shell lamp, duck place mat, and cordless telephone.  Thus there is more room on the bathroom bookcase to place items in the sink area.  With the folding shopping cart hung higher up, the bathroom door handle does not get wedged into the sweater drying rack, and the folding shopping cart clears the bookcase cordless telephone, so the door opens and shuts all the way without risking getting its door handle locked in place by the wire sweater drying rack. Thus the dining table is more useful and looks neater.  I also emptied the two bathroom garbage cans when I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with the St. James monitoring system that they keep around this place.  I moved some of the bathroom items stored in the bookcase to the wire rack on the right side of the toilet.  Word of warning to certain individuals whom they know it all in this area is that the railroad people sometimes know more.  Frequently when one family member is getting richer some place else, another family member is getting poorer some place else.  I took some pictures

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 .  CIO 

Note:<999> 12/15/05 Thursday 12:05 P.M.:  I microwaved and ate a 21 ounce Marie Callender frozen lasagna and meat dinner, which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  I will now shower, and I will shave, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  It is currently 30.7 degrees Fahrenheit, and it is 43% humidity.  The local yokel forecast says it is 21 degrees Fahrenheit and 42% humidity Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground  which comes from White Plains, New York which is away from Long Island Sound, so it tends be colder there depending on which way the wind is out of.  However, this time of day, my weather monitor gets a little sun, so maybe it is warmer here.  It is a big country, the good Old United States of America, so they do not have a weather station every 20 miles or so, if you get my drift.  I will now shower, and I will clean up.   CIO

Note:<999> 12/15/05 Thursday 11:05 A.M.:  I just checked the mail and my CPU order AMD Athlon XP-3000 2.167GHz 512K 400MHz CPU OEM, Consumer Electronics, PC Accessories that  I bought OEM for $88.40 plus $16.15 priority mail shipping and handling for $104.55 to arrive by Priority U.S.A. mail has not arrived yet.  I contacted the shipper at http://www.eagepc.com/email.cfm .  I  would think for a shipping cost of $16.15 Priority Mail for a small CPU that it would come sooner.  The U.S. Post Office personnel all know me, so I doubt if there were any problems on their end at this location.  CIO  

Note:<999> 12/15/05 Thursday 10:05 A.M.:  I checked the mail, but it is not here yet.  Anderson Electric is here working in the building.  They told me they are installing a diesel generator.  I do not know whether it is to keep the apartments or hallways warmer.  I suggested they use one of those old nuclear powered submarines in New London, Connecticut that we do not use anymore, and then they would have enough electricity for the whole town of Greenwich and possibly our neighbors.   We are a electric heated building.  Of course somebody is going to have to pay for the diesel fuel to fuel a diesel generator, and it will have to be available to use.  They are drilling into the underneath of the concrete floors to support the new heavy duty metal electrical conduits.  CIO 

Note:<999> 12/15/05 Thursday 9:45 A.M.:  There is this computer memory deal available for the type of computer memory that I use pqi POWER Series 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM System Memory - Retail at Newegg.com , but I already have two 512 MB 400 MHz 3200 memory chips in my primary computer, and I only have three memory slots on my Gigabyte motherboard, so maybe when I get my Lexmark Staples $80 rebate on the Lexmark E238 laser printer, I will buy a one gigabyte memory chip which runs about $80 online all the time, and then I would have 2 gigabytes of memory in the computer.  Paying bills ahead of time and getting rebates from reliable  companies is like saving money in the bank.  Of course if the money is in the bank, it is available for other uses, but one could also spend it one something, one does not really need.  Since I lead a simple life, I like paying my bills ahead of time.  I only drove about 3000 miles mostly locally last year, but one has to remember that one needs automobile insurance to drive a car, and one has to make sure one makes those payments.  I have just over a quarter inch of tread on my Volvo automobile tires, which for the type of driving I do is just fine.  I never bother driving on snowy or icy roads.  I also live right by U.S. 1 in Greenwich, Connecticut which is usually the first road plowed by the Connecticut Department of Transportation in this area after Interstate 95.  We were suppose to get snow tomorrow, but they are now calling for rain Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground , but at the current temperature it would definitely be snow if it does not warm up soon. CIO

Note:<999> 12/15/05 Thursday 9:30 A.M.:  I just went to www.geico.com , and I paid online my final insurance payment due in January 2006 of $70.30 on my six month policy with four payments due the first four months of the policy, so the automobile insurance policy on my 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon is paid up through March 2006.  Thus I will not have another insurance payment until April 2006, when the next policy payment period starts.  CIO 

Note:<999> 12/15/05 Thursday 9:15 A.M.:  I made up a short list of vitamins and supplements that I need at CVS.  I have some in reserve www.geocities.com/mikelscott/inventory.htm , so I do not need that many.  I have a $4 off coupon on a $20 purchase.  Right now CVS www.cvs.com vitamins and supplements are buy one get one 50% off, but sometimes they have them buy one get one free.  I will not go out until later today a little while before my 3 P.M. appointment, since there is no sense making two trips.  CIO    

Note:<999> 12/15/05 Thursday 8:35 A.M.:  I sewed on a blue button on my a red and white plaid leisure draw string pants.  I use leisure pants around the apartment instead of wearing out expensive pairs of blue jeans.  I also sewed on the right pocket of my Ralph Lauren  medium weight jacket that I bought at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop around last February for $40.  It is similar to the jacket that John Kerry wore in his Presidential campaign.  Ralph originally sold them for about $400.  The right pocket separated at the right corner, so I sewed it back on securely.  It is a dark green jacket, but I forgot in my haste, and I used beige thread, but it does not show, since it is underneath the flap.  I should buy a roll of darker thread, but I am not sure where one buys thread around Greenwich anymore.  CVS has a small supply of Singer sewing products in their store, but I am not sure if they sell thread.  I keep a little sewing kit in a small 4 inch square blue and white box in my left mahogany bureau drawer.  I will now put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  I chatted with a friend.  I chatted with my relative whom got out of the hospital and my relative is doing much better, and she is going out to do errands today.  There is some confusion in the family, since my relative plans to move to a smaller house in Florida from her current house in Vero Beach, Florida.  I guess with the hurricane season and as one gets older, one does not need such a large retirement house in Florida.  I like my relative's current house, but it is a older house which takes a lot of maintenance, so I guess my relative is doing what she thinks best.  My weather station says it is 16.9 degrees Fahrenheit and 53% humidity.  This Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground says it is 10 degrees Fahrenheit and 67% humidity.  I am quite use to colder weather, so the colder weather does not bother me too much.  I have to make up a list of vitamins that I might need to get at CVS today.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment this afternoon.  CIO      

Note:<999> 12/15/05 Thursday 7:10 A.M.:  I put away the laundry.  I am making up a fresh batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  The end of a telephone cord lying on the bedroom floor is connected to the Optimum Voice toll free telephone system.   I left it draped in the handle of the left bedroom desk drawer.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/15/05 Thursday 6:05 A.M.:  Yesterday before going out, I put some Liquid Plummer in the bathroom sink drain to clean out the shaving soap scum and whiskers that builds up.  I left it in the bathroom drain all day yesterday, and before going to bed last night, I used the toilet plunger and hot water to clean out the bathroom sink drain, so it all drains much better again.  I also took a hot bath and washed my hair before going to bed last night.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/15/05 Thursday 5:50 A.M.:  I was awake at 4 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 40 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed in the bedroom.  It is a bit cold in the apartment, so although I have the living room thermostat set at 76 degrees Fahrenheit which keeps the living room at about 71 degrees Fahrenheit, I only had the bedroom thermostat set at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, so I turned up the bedroom thermostat to 76 degrees Fahrenheit to keep a more even heat in the apartment, and the heat from the living room will not be lost into a cooler bedroom.  I do not turn on the 220 volt electric heat in the bathroom, since it uses too much electricity.  Thus the apartment should be a little bit warmer.  If it got too cold in the apartment, I could always close the bedroom door and turn on the bedroom thermostat a little higher, and it would be more than likely warm enough.  The bedroom thermostat is on the wall to the right of the bedroom television slightly hidden by a shelf with an old battery charger and Radio Shack NOAA weather radio on it.  I broke the button off my red and white plaid leisure pants, so I have to sew on another button them when I have time.  Also there is a lose end of a  telephone cable on the floor by the bedroom desk, and I am not sure what it is doing there.  I put $5 more on the MacGray laundry card, so there is $13.25 left on it.  CIO  

Note:<999> 12/14/05 Wednesday 6:10 P.M.:  I just talked with a relative.  My other relative is doing better and hopefully will be out of the hospital today.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/14/05 Wednesday 3:30 P.M.:  I put charged up Radio Shack metal hydride batteries back in the Vivitar Digital camera.  The regular ones are just about worn out, but I do not use them very much.  I took out of the freezer as if we really need one, the 18.5 ounceFreschetta LIFESTYLE By Freschetta® Products sensation Brick Oven Fire Baked Crust 5 Italian Cheese frozen pizza, and I cut it into four pieces to fit on the metal baking pan, and I put it in the Farberware convection oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes.  I put a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on it, and  I ate it with a glass of ice tea.  I cooked it, so it was more soft.  CIO 

Note:<999> 12/14/05 Wednesday 2:15 P.M.:  I went downstairs, and I left a copy of the jump starter information for the building custodian whom is interested in one.  I also chatted with a neighbor.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/14/05 Wednesday 2:10 P.M.:  Pictures

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 .  CIO

Note:<999> 12/14/05 Wednesday 1:10 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  My 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo Station wagon with the new Deka battery started right up.  Of course one has to drive the car a bit to keep the battery charged up.  I researched Deka battery last year, when the Greenwich Automotive Service Exxon station sold it to me on a cold day early in the evening when Sears in White Plains, New York did not have a battery for my car, and the Deka battery is made in Fort Erie, Pennsylvania, which is like Buffalo, New York, so they know cold weather.  I think I once spent a night in Fort Erie, Pennsylvania back in December 1972, when I was driving with my one of my roommates back from college in a vintage Mercedes Diesel that turned out to have 190,000 miles on it instead of 90,000 miles, so I sold it.  On the trip back east the air conditioning compressor malfunctioned and sprayed compressor oil all over the car somewhere in Indiana.  Thus when one goes to Lake Forest, College www.lfc.edu, one returns back east using the air conditioning on one's Mercedes Diesel in December when people back east are already burning oil to heat their homes.  As I recall the inexpensive motel we stayed at in Fort Erie, Pennsylvania did not seem to have any heat.  That roommate from college was from East Aurora, New York outside of Buffalo, New York, and his family entertained me earlier that summer with the Queen Mum of England at the Fort Erie, Canada race track.  However, I did not know she was the Queen Mum of England, but the equestrian crowd seemed to enjoy a cocktail, and we all had a good time talking about our adventures.  I use to hang out when I had money in Manhattan occasionally at a restaurant in Greenwich Village called the Buffalo road house which has an enjoyable sidewalk cafe on cold winter's days.  When I first went down to Fort Lauderdale, Florida back during the winter of 1976 hoping to get a job on a sail boat to Tobago, I noticed the Fort Lauderdale, Florida newspaper was all about how much snow was up in Buffalo, New York, but even on Thanksgiving Day in 1972, it was 21 degrees Fahrenheit in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at 7 A.M. that morning, so it much have been colder up north.  Thus Florida seems to have gotten busier than usual with the colder winters up north.   After my Volvo started up fine, I drove over to the Arnold Bread factory store, and I bought a loaf of Arnold Multigrain bread for $1.59 and a six pack of New York everything bagels for $1.85 less 10% senior discount of .34 for $3.10 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Exxon gasoline station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $16 of premium unleaded gasoline at $2.679 a gallon for 78.3 miles driving since the first of the month at 14 miles per gallon driving an average of 12 miles per hour.    I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street, and the regular bank security guard told me is looking for a used car, and I suggested www.bargainnews.com .  I also mentioned there are some large dealerships up in Danbury, Connecticut.  Most of the Greenwich, Connecticut dealerships sell premium more expensive cars. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop and certain types of clothes are 50% off.  I bought a teak vase stand about 8 inches in diameter made in the People's Republic of China for $5.  I then went by CVS, and since today is very dry with the colder weather, when I was getting ready to go out, I had a static electricity shock with my wool socks on wool carpet, so I looked at the sanitary rubber gloves at CVS that come in a box of fifty for $7.99, but I decided I could use my Playtex dishwashing rubber gloves to handle my CPU that I ordered in bare feet with rubber shoes and grounding strap.  One has to remember on cold dry days, there is a lot of static electricity, which can be the worst hazard for computer and other electronic components.  They do have CVS www.cvs.com vitamins on sale for buy one bottle get one for 50% off, but I could not remember which ones that I might need.  I also have a $4 off $20 purchase coupon.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought Dole organic bananas for .79 a pound for $1.49.  I then returned home.  I put away my purchases.  I put the Chinese teak stand on the brass and glass coffee table, and then I took the large pink flower pattern Chinese rice bowl from underneath the other blue and yellow pattern Chinese rice bowl holding the golden pathos plant, and I put the pink pattern one on the teak stand on the brass and glass coffee table, and I put my small artificial decorated Christmas tree standing in the pink pattern Chinese rice bowl.   It looks quite nice.    I also took four more 16 ounce cans of B&M baked beans, and I took the next smaller tea tray, and I used the B&M baked bean cans and tea tray upside down to make another printer stand supporting my HP LaserJet 4L printer on the right side of the bedroom desk, so there is room to put items underneath it.  I did not put anything there such as paper yet.  I am still waiting for the AMD Athlon XP-3000 2.167GHz 512K 400MHz CPU OEM, Consumer Electronics, PC Accessories that  I bought OEM for $88.40 plus $16.15 priority mail shipping and handling for $104.55 to arrive by Priority U.S.A. mail sometime soon.  I obviously know how to install it very carefully.  For cold days on sale but $17.95 shipping Surplus Computers TOL10130  - 2 in 1 Jumpstart/Air Compressor $19.99 and $17.95 shipping .  I already have one, but a jump start would cost you that much.   CIO  

Note:<999> 12/14/05 Wednesday 7:45 A.M.:  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I got my cold weather clothes out for when I go out at 8:00 A.M..  I do not need to shower, since I cleaned up before going to bed last night.  I will brush my teeth though.  I do not think I will bother shaving, and I will go with that old Nordic Russian look that they all hate.   When dressing for cold weather, layering one's clothes frequently works better than one heavy garment, since the air space in between the different clothes layers provide a bit of extra insulation.  If one has been too busy working on the internet, one might look at this Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground which says it is currently 9 degrees Fahrenheit locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut, but my weather instrument outside my window says it is 12.6 degrees Fahrenheit and 46% humidity, so whatever the case it is a bit cold outside by local standards.  If one looks at The Old Farmer's Almanac - Weather Center , they predict a colder than normal December and January with the rest of the winter milder.  They also predict snow around Christmas time.  I finished the backup of the computer, so I will now shut down the computer, and I will brush my teeth, and I will get dressed up to go out.  I will take the Slaymaker Jump Start System with me to have available in the car.  My 1995 Volvo station wagon should start, since I have a new Deka car battery in it that I bought at Greenwich Automotive last March 12, 2005 for $172, but I will keep the jump start system handy with me while I go out today.  I do not leave the Jump start system in the car, since it would get cold and weaker.  I put a new battery in the jump start system about a week later, and it is a Zeus Sealed lead acid batteries and custom battery packs 12V 17AH Sealed Lead Acid UPS or Alarm System Battery at www.ebay.com for sale by "batteryman20" for $15.95 plus $11.50 shipping and handling by UPS standard delivery for $27.45 total that arrived March 18, 2005.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/14/05 Wednesday 5:05 A.M.:  I will now run Norton Win Doctor, Ad-awareSE Personal Edition, Windows Update, Norton Update, System Restore backup, and then I will do a C: drive backup to the D: drive with Windows XP Professional Automatic System Recovery.   Thus I will be off line for a while.  While doing the backup, I will have breakfast.  This will all take about two hours.  CIO 

Note:<999> 12/14/05 Wednesday 4:45 A.M.:  I  chatted with a relative after the last message, and my other relative whom did not feel well is doing better.  I chatted with another relative.  I took a warm bath, and I cleaned up before going to bed.  I woke up at 1 A.M..  I watched a short program about raising obelisks in Egypt in the old days.  Somebody must know how do it here, since we have one in front of the Greenwich Post Office.  I had a old brass tray that I used to have my Golden Pathos plant sitting on, and it was a bit corroded, so I cleaned it scoured it with pot scrubbing soap solution, and it looks better.  I then took the items off the Danish end table bar in the living room, and I dusted it and the items.  I then put the brass tray on the Danish bar with the three large brass candlesticks and the various small flags of recognition, so it looks more colorful. I also put the Westchester Country Club ice bucket on the back side left with the pewter bowl and Revere bowl and Delft bowl with the Field Club trophy, and the stag head silver bottle holder is in the front middle of the brass tray with the French flag in it.  I move the Suds beer pitcher and the wine fiasco to on top of the refrigerator.  I moved the large rice bowl with the lose items on the dining room table to the side board in the bedroom, and I put out the large glass bowl with wooden pineapple in it and the two Canadian Goose wooden serving spoon and fork.  It is handy to have on the dining table, since it can be used for pasta or salad dishes.  I put the large red candle from the Danish end table bar to the front center of the mahogany bureau.   I moved the red disposable plastic cups into the bar supply cupboard beneath the center hallway bookcase.  I am charging up the Radio Shack rechargeable batteries on the Vivitar digital camera, and I have regular batteries in it for now.  Thus the Danish end table bar area looks better, and dining table looks neater despite the three printers on it.  Since my primary activity for the last 16 years has been computer activity, it is important to maintain and display properly the computer equipment, and it is not just a bunch of junk items.  I work very hard to maintain it all, and I have spent probably over 100,000 hours or more in the activity on a limited budget which involves quite a bit of money at my own expense and my family's help www.geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm , so maintaining and displaying my computer work area activity is very important to me.  That is why I keep a close eye on my apartment environment, and I would most strongly object to anyone trying to sabotage or use my computer equipment, and I think since IBM www.ibm.com is also in the area, there are probably a large number of high paid lawyers in this area whom would agree with me.  Thus I do not entertain guests or have visitors in my apartment, and I treat it like a home office.  Pictures follow

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.  I also put the British Union Jack back up in the apartment on the right hallway bookcase, because the poorly informed local U.S.A. representatives in this area do not seem to be informed about whom I am or what my position is in this area as far as the U.S.A. government is concerned.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/13/05 Tuesday 6:05 P.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I am really tired from all of the computer work that I have been doing recently.  I have not been getting my usual amount of sleep, and since I am disabled, I tend to wear out.  I will eat two scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn coffee ice cream before I go to bed.  CIO 

Note:<999> 12/13/05 Tuesday 5:50 P.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/13/05 Tuesday 5:40 P.M.:  A relative is not well, and I am not feeling too well myself.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/13/05 Tuesday 5:00 P.M.:  Microsoft has been to trial so much, they giving you free trials Windows Server 2003 R2 Trial Software .  CIO 

Note:<999> 12/13/05 Tuesday 4:55 P.M.:   Microsoft One Note free trial Reviews and free downloads at Download.com .  CIO

Note:<999> 12/13/05 Tuesday 4:50 P.M.:  Konica Minolta Magicolor 2400W Recertified 2400x600 dpi 20ppm5ppm color Laser Printer 5250220100REC at TigerDirect.com $230 .  CIO 

Note:<999> 12/13/05 Tuesday 4:25 P.M.:  I usually do not clean up, when I stay home, and with the money that I save by not taking a hot shower, and I can afford to keep the apartment a little bit warmer.  I printed out a laser copy of my Christmas letter http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/xmas2005.htm , and I used a blue and a yellow push pin to post it on the laundry room bulletin board downstairs for my neighbors to be amused by.   CIO

Note:<999> 12/13/05 Tuesday 3:25 P.M.:  I scanned and printed two copies of the Lexmark E238 shipping slip and outside box label with serial number, and I put the those with the other printer material information in the metal file holder on the mahogany bureau in the bedroom.  I left the two CDs and Quick Reference guide in English on top of the Lexmark X1128 all purpose machine.  I put the Lexmark E238 shipping box with its packing material on top of the speaker on top of the file cabinet in the bedroom, so it is out of the way.   I registered the printer with Lexmark Lexmark survey .  CIO

Note:<999> 12/13/05 Tuesday 2:35 P.M.:  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.   I had three no person type fax calls, and since I do not like wasting paper with junk fax calls, I do not own a fax machine, but I can send a fax with my computer setup, but I do not have it set up to receive fax mail.  I chatted with a relative who raised canaries in Texas, and I could hear the birds chirping in the back ground.  I noticed on the Lexmark E238 laser printer box that it is made in China, so I guess although Lexmark use to have their corporate headquarters here in Greenwich, Connecticut after IBM sold their printer division to Lexmark, they then moved the Lexmark corporate headquarters to Lexington, Kentucky where a old Taft classmate Hunt Collins was from.  I learned about a lot about the Collins family in the old days, since a lot of people use to have a drink called a Tom Collins.  My relative said although Well Fargo Security no longer exists, they still have a bank on the West Coast of America.  I think they use to protect Gold Shipments from California in the Old Days of the 49ers, and they developed a reputation for always apprehending their Most Wanted people on their famous Most Wanted posters.   It seems they are still in business Wells Fargo Wanted Posters .  CIO 

Note:<999> 12/13/05 Tuesday 12:55 P.M.:  I installed the Lexmark E238 drivers on the four backup computers in my apartment that work through the Siemens router to the Printer Port Box to print to the Lexmark E238 laser printer.  Since it is not a local port with the Siemens router, the Lexmark local printer settings program will not work on the four backup computers, because for that to work, it has be USB or direct LPT parallel port , connection.  However, the backup computers all do print fine on the Lexmark E238 laser printer and it is set up as the default printer on all of them, and their device drivers have settings programs for controlling the print activity.  I installed the manual on the Northgate Syntax and the Dell L1000R computers as well.  While the backup computers were up and running, I installed some updates.  I also cleaned the top CD player laser lens with the AT&T lens cleaner.  I thus used about 12 sheets of paper for testing the Lexmark laser paper, but I think it is worth it to know that it works.  I keep my old test paper for grocery lists and other scrap paper, and it is stacked underneath the Lexmark E238 laser printer in the lower level of the printer stand.  About a year ago, I threw out about a 18 inch high stack of scrap paper that I had saved, since I figured it would be recycled.  I went downstairs, and I picked up my mail.  I chatted with some neighbors who I see more of, since I am not going out as much anymore.  I got my new year 2006 Social Security statement, and my SSI benefits are being raised from $579 a month to $601, but last week I received notification from the state of Connecticut that my Food Stamps are being lowered from $102 to $91 a month, thus in total benefits, I will only get a $13 a month cost of living increase, which would be about a 1.9 percent cost of living increase for the year 2006.  As an Economist in this area, I think the cost of living as gone up more than 1.9%, but the government has a lot of people to deal with in those programs, so they keep the percentages down.  It would take an act of congress for them to be anymore.  Thus we all know electricity, gasoline, and powdered milk have gone up a lot, so I suppose, whatever bread basket index of economic indicators the government looks at must relate to former military employees shopping at their local PX or Commissary, if you happen to be fortunate enough to live near one.  Gasoline to get to one, also costs money.  I scanned the two letters with the Lexmark X1185 all purpose machine, and I printed out two copies on the Minolta laser printer, which is cheaper to operate than the Lexmark for now.  Don't worry sooner or later the Lexmark machines will also get a bit of printing use too.  Since I really have never been in the United Kingdom, and since I really do not know anyone over there, although I have met a few people from there over the years, I decided it would be more user friendly to the host government paying for my own citizenship benefits if I also flew their flag for a while, so I rotated the large British flag with the large U.S.A. flag on the right hallway bookcase.  Since I am also half Dutch, and my dear mother and her relatives are 100% Dutch American, I will continue to leave the Dutch flag flying.    I am still waiting for the AMD Athlon XP-3000 2.167GHz 512K 400MHz CPU OEM, Consumer Electronics, PC Accessories that  I bought OEM for $88.40 plus $16.15 priority mail shipping and handling for $104.55 to arrive by Priority U.S.A. mail, but with the Holiday Season even, Priority Mail might be a bit slower.  Earlier I chatted with a relative whom reminded me that in the olds in Greenwich, when some of the local people were more affluent, they use to employ Wells Fargo Security, but alas I think even Well Fargo has gone out of business.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/13/05 Tuesday 8:50 A.M.:   I was awake at 4 A.M..  I disconnect the HP LaserJet IID power cord from the lower control panel on the primary computer, and I plugged it into the power strip at the left side.  One can still turn on the power with to the HP LaserJet IID printer with the switch at its near rear corner behind the Lexmark 1185 all in one printer.  I opened up the Lexmark E238 laser printer box Lexmark E238 -- Lexmark United States , and I read its simple instructions.  First I ran the Lexmark software on my computer to the point where one connects the printer.  I then removed the Lexmark E238 printer from its packaging, and I opened up the front door of its compartment, and I removed the packaging off the toner cartridge, and I reinstalled the toner cartridge.  I then put in about 150 sheets of Staples laser copy paper.  One is suppose to fan and twist the paper before inserting it.  I attached the rear piece of plastic.  I placed it on the IBM Plexiglas printer stand to the left of the Minolta laser printer.  I had already attached it power cable to the lower level primary computer control panel.  The Lexmark E238 has a power switch on the back, so it is easier to turn on and off from the control panel.  Plus the control panel is protected by the Ground Fault Interrupter power strip it is plugged into.  I then plugged in the USB cable for it and turned on the Lexmark E238 laser printer, and I continued the Lexmark software installation to completion, and the printer was recognized by Windows XP.  I then did a test print out, and it works just fine.  I then renamed the Lexmark printer icon in the XP printer folder "Lexmark Laser E238 USB".  I then disconnected the USB cable from the printer, and I ran the Lexmark software again, and this time I installed it as a parallel printer after I connected the parallel cable from the printer port box connected to the Siemens router.  I then rebooted, and I changed the Lexmark E238 printer parallel port to the Siemens router port, and I renamed it "Lexmark Laser E238 Siemens".  I tested it, and it worked just fine.  I then reconnected the USB cable, and I tested both ports again to make sure they both worked while both are connected.  I then copied the manual from the second CD to my C: drive, and I put a shortcut on the desktop to the manual.   I then booted in Vista beta 1 build 5231, and I tried to install the Lexmark printer software, but it prompted me to install it from the Vista beta printer folder.  With the Lexmark E238 still connected to both parallel and USB cables,  I used the Vista beta Add Printer wizard, and I connected it to the Siemens port, but the Lexmark E238 driver would not install, but the Vista beta has a driver for the E234 which is a similar machine, and I installed that driver without any problems.  I tested it, and it worked.  I then had to determine by booting back into XP which USB port the Lexmark E238 was on, but in XP, it only showed USB 5, but in Vista it showed 7 USB ports.  By trial and error, I figured it was USB 6 port, and I installed it to the Lexmark E234 driver, and I tested it, and it worked just fine in Vista beta 1 build 5231 from either port.  I changed the printer names in the icons from "Lexmark E234" to "Lexmark Laser E238 Siemens" and "Lexmark Laser E238 USB".  My Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W in Vista beta 1 build 5231 is on the USB 7 port.  I test it to make sure it still worked while the Lexmark was installed and turned on, and they both work just fine together.  I then put a small label with Scotch tape over it with "Lex Laser" above the lower control panel switch that controls the power to the Lexmark E238 laser printer.  I next copied the manual to the Vista E: drive, and I created a short cut to it on the desktop.  I will install the Lexmark E238 software on my other four computers connected to the Siemens router, so they will all be able to print out on the Lexmark E238 laser printer Lexmark E238 -- Lexmark United States, once the software is installed.  Here are two pictures

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.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/12/05 Monday 9:40 P.M.:  I moved the Lexmark box with the E238 laser printer to on top of the chair to the right of the Orion television in the bedroom beneath the stereo system.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed for the night.  I guess I am now back on a day schedule for a while.  It is suppose to be 15 degrees Fahrenheit at 7 A.M. tomorrow morning  Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground with some sleet coming up on Thursday and Friday and possibly some Frosty the Snow Man stuff if you get my drift Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  However, at my young age of 55, I will survive, but this man at age 69 tomorrow has seen warmer days in his youth in Kenya where ever he might be remember Tuesday December 13, 2005 is His Highness the Aga Khan's 69th Birthday , so if like his grandfather he gets his weight in precious jewels for his birthday for charities, if he is fat charities get more money, but if he is skinny they get less money.  However, since he is a medical Doctor, he tends to be on the thin side.   Maybe they should weigh is wife to save money http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/agakhan01.jpg .  I have a theory about some of his wealth since he is a Swiss citizen raised in Kenya.  Since his well advertised grandfather was the World's richest person, more than likely the current Aga Khan besides being the head of the Shea Muslims His Highness the Aga Khan - A Birthday Tribute , his family also has personal wealth.  His family has had a modest house here in Greenwich, Connecticut since 1922, and they started the United Nations.  He was high commissioner for refugees at the United Nations for about 10 years in the late 1980s and early 1990s while his children were going to school here in America.  He is also suppose to have about 650 other homes around the world including the house in Switzerland where Gorbachev and Reagan held their summit to bring an end to the cold war.  He also has a 600 room plus villa on the Isle of Capri.  Most his homes would be like embassies, since he represents a larger population.  Since his father was living in Pakistan when Royal Dutch Shell was started by somebody in Pakistan, more than likely he has large investments in Royal Dutch Shell.  Since he is a Swiss Citizen, he is probably a large stockholder in Nestle, which owns Great Waters of France and www.perrier.com across the road from me.  Thus more than likely the real Aga Khan would more than likely have accountants, lawyers, bankers, and other financial advisers taking care of his affairs.  As a Swiss Citizen, he would be legally a political neutral.  I do not know if he mingles with the general public when in this area, but he more than likely was seen quite a bit around the United Nations when he took the post there.  So remember December 13, 2005 would be when his followers might donate his weight in precious jewels.  Of course the charities more than likely are in his part of the world, where there more than likely are a lot of needy people.  Of course Queen Beatrice Het Koninklijk Huis sent me a Christmas card last year done by "Save the Children" Save the Children: Helping Children in Poverty and Children in Crisis , so she has her own charities.  Bon Soir.  CIO 

Note:<999> 12/12/05 Monday 8:40 P.M.:  UPS just made the delivery, but I am a bit tired, so I will not try to install the Staples.com®. that was easy™. Lexmark E238 for $179.98 less $36 online coupon and $80 online Easy Rebate for $64 plus tax and free shipping that I ordered it for $143.98 plus $8.64 tax for $152.62 with free shipping and I filled out the $80 Easy Rebate online Staples Easy Rebates , so after I receive the $80 rebate in a month, it will cost me $72.62 total is UPS Package Tracking Lexmark E238 laser printer from Staples for Mike Scott .  I left it sitting on my television chair for now.  If you do not believe, here is a picture of the box http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/lexmark-e238-laser-printer-with-microsoft-vista-beta-1-build-5231-on-primary-computer-in-back-ground-with-grandad-boven-portrait-in-background-121205.JPG.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/12/05 Monday 7:50 P.M.:  Alas, although I am half Dutch, since my mother is 100% Dutch, I never know what the Dutch are talking about, since I do not speak Dutch.  I am told, they know a little bit of English that they learn from tourists in the Netherlands.  Still I do have the Dutch flag in the apartment, but alas with the Big Cat Rockefellers ruling the town with Exxon as their private toy, Royal Dutch Shell does not pull much weight in this area.  However, since the Dutch have been in this neck of the woods supposedly for so long of a time, they supposedly have quite a large amount of investments.  About the only sign left of the Dutch around here, the last time I looked about 15 years ago, KLM www.klm.com had a modest office over in White Plains, New York to help the Rockefellers move their diamonds around, but I suppose this family is suppose to know something about the Dutch, so maybe you should check with them Het Koninklijk Huis .  CIO 

Note:<999> 12/12/05 Monday 7:40 P.M.:  The UPS delivery I am waiting for has been out for delivery since 4:45 A.M. this morning, and it weighs 35 pounds, so I hope he has a cart.  I went outside, and I checked the area, and there was no sign of UPS yet.  However, this time of year, they make much later deliveries than 8 P.M. to get all of their orders out on time.  My relatives live near one of the owners of UPS in Vero Beach, Florida TCPalm  , and he is building a new $25 million dollar house on the beach there.  Thus for the owners, UPS must be fairly profitable, but it is also an expensive business to run with all the trucks, warehouses, and planes using lots of expensive energy.   I made dinner of Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with Franks , which I ate with a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note:<999> 12/12/05 Monday 6:30 P.M.:  I installed www.livemeeting.com on the primary XP computer.  I did a door bell check.  The bedroom door bell with the "Blue Bells of Scotland" chime works fine, but the living room wireless tone system is a little slow on the signal, so maybe it needs its batteries replaced, or I have too much electrical interference in the signal.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/12/05 Monday 5:55 P.M.:   I have been working with Michael Louis Scott's Microsoft Vista Beta Notes .  I chatted with a friend, and I cancelled my 4 P.M. appointment because I am too tired.  I am still waiting for UPS, but at this time of the year, they are busy, and I am at the end of their route.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/12/05 Monday 10:30 A.M.:  I was up at 6 A.M..  I have been configuring Vista since then Michael Louis Scott's Microsoft Vista Beta Notes .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 11:10 P.M.:  I did some more work in Vista beta 1 build 5231 Michael Louis Scott's Microsoft Vista Beta Notes .  I chatted with two relatives.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  It has been a busy weekend, and I have been awake for the last 27 hours.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 4:20 P.M.:  Remember Tuesday December 13, 2005 is His Highness the Aga Khan's 69th Birthday , so if like his grandfather he gets his weight in precious jewels for his birthday for charities, if he is fat charities get more money, but if he is skinny they get less money.  However, since he is a medical Doctor, he tends to be on the thin side.   Maybe they should weigh is wife to save money http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/agakhan01.jpg .  I have a theory about some of his wealth since he is a Swiss citizen raised in Kenya.  Since his well advertised grandfather was the World's richest person, more than likely the current Aga Khan besides being the head of the Shea Muslims His Highness the Aga Khan - A Birthday Tribute , his family also has personal wealth.  His family has had a modest house here in Greenwich, Connecticut since 1922, and they started the United Nations.  He was high commissioner for refugees at the United Nations for about 10 years in the late 1980s and early 1990s while his children were going to school here in America.  He is also suppose to have about 650 other homes around the world including the house in Switzerland where Gorbachev and Reagan held their summit to bring an end to the cold war.  He also has a 600 room plus villa on the Isle of Capri.  Most his homes would be like embassies, since he represents a larger population.  Since his father was living in Pakistan when Royal Dutch Shell was started by somebody in Pakistan, more than likely he has large investments in Royal Dutch Shell.  Since he is a Swiss Citizen, he is probably a large stockholder in Nestle, which owns Great Waters of France and www.perrier.com across the road from me.  Thus more than likely the real Aga Khan would more than likely have accountants, lawyers, bankers, and other financial advisers taking care of his affairs.  As a Swiss Citizen, he would be legally a political neutral.  I do not know if he mingles with the general public when in this area, but he more than likely was seen quite a bit around the United Nations when he took the post there.  So remember December 13, 2005 would be when his followers might donate his weight in precious jewels.  Of course the charities more than likely are in his part of the world, where there more than likely are a lot of needy people.  I ate 2.5 scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn coffee ice cream.  I will now boot into Vista beta 1 build 5231, to see how it works again.  After I boot into it, and look at it a bit, I will shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon after that.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 3:10 P.M.:  I took four of my eight 4 inch by 4 inch cork bottom Christmas Tree coasters that I bought at the gift shop at the Bush-Holly House Museum Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich about 15 year ago for $8 at their annual Christmas display, and I placed one of each of the four underneath the full B&M Maple flavor baked bean cans on top of the corner positions of the HP LaserJet IID printer that supports my improvised printer stand assembly to give the cans more secure resting positions.  One has to remember when the Epson inkjet on top prints, it tends to wiggle back and forth a little bit, so hopefully when I use it, the whole assembly will not come tumbling down.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 2:35 P.M.:  I chatted with two relatives.  I improvised a printer stand sitting on top of the HP LaserJet IID laser printer.  I put four 16 ounce cans of B&M baked beans at each of the four widest resting points around the HP paper eject area. I then put the largest of the three tea trays upside down on top of the cans, so the rim of the tea tray keeps the cans from pulling away and falling off the edge of the HP.   I then laid the large flat book about Egypt on top of the tea tray.  I then centered the EpsonStylus Color 880 printer, so the weight is evenly distributed on top of the tea tray.   It works very well, so one can easily use either without any problem.  However, if there is a paper jam in the HP, and one has to open up the inside of the HPfrom the top, so one would have to remove the Epson and place it on top of the Lexmark X1185, and then remove the book, tea tray and cans.  However, the HP does not jam that much, and I only use it once every four months to print out my Scott's random notes in Postscript font which prints out fairly fast in Postscript on the HP printer.  The HP does not print out graphics or true type fonts very fast.  However, I have a new 3,000 sheet generic cartridge in the HP with about 400 sheets used, and I have two new spare cartridges one HP 95 and the other Xerox 95, so I thus have about 8500 sheets of spare toner cartridge capacity left on the HP.  However, there are other things that can go wrong with the HP, which I would not pay to have repaired, if they ever do occur.  When it was new about 12 years ago, it would be regularly serviced.  However, new it was probably about $4,500, so it is a work horse of a printer.  I have the manuals too.  Basically from what I can tell, it is available for heavy duty postscript printing.  One removes the HP printouts from the side, since the cans make the front opening smaller underneath the tea tray.  I chatted with two relatives about what I have been doing.  I will now post a couple of pictures of the HP LaserJet IID and EpsonStylus Color 880 and the Lexmark X1185 printer setup on my dining room table with the improvised tea tray and cans supporting the Epson on top of the HP.  Pictures follow

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/hp-laserjet-IId-with-tea-tray-resting-on-bean-cans-supporting-epsonstylus-color-880-with-lexmark-x1185-along-side-on-oak-dining-table-121105.JPG

In the following picture underneath the light on the right is where the Lexmark E238 laser printer is going on top of the clear Plexiglas IBM printer stand that holds my used paper on the lower side.

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/hp-laserjet-IId-with-tea-tray-resting-on-bean-cans-supporting-epsonstylus-color-880-with-lexmark-x1185-along-side-on-oak-dining-table-with-bric-a-brac-121105.JPG

 .  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 12:25 P.M.:  Two grand after a grand rebate Xerox Office - WorkCentre C2424 Color Multifunction is a three in one for your office  .  I think I mentioned in my notes, the only person that bothered to continually pay attention to me and keep an eye on me and try to keep me interested in the business was Joel from Laguna Beach, California  who looked like Nelson Rockefeller, and he was the head of Xerox Parc back in 1980, and so he could afford a beach house in Laguna.  Of course he probably thinks I am robbing them blind since I live in Greenwich.  XEROX Trade-in Center if you look at the link, one can get a $500 rebate on the machine, but they will give you another $500 rebate trade in if you have a machine like my HP LaserJet IID, so somebody could use it for a trade in.  Look at this page Current Xerox Office Product Rebates .  A $500 trade in ain't chicken feed.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 12:10 P.M.:  This is for the even Bigger Big Buck Boys  Staples.com®. that was easy™. HP LaserJet 2840 Color Flatbed All-in-One for a cool grand less a C note rebate if you feel like printing your own money .  However, once you get into that price range www.xerox.com might have some alternatives.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 12:05 P.M.:  More printer stands KENSINGTON Printer Dock Printer/Office Machine Stand, Platinum KMW60041 60041 IM1236670 040033 KMW60041 040033 g641 N160041 10085896600418 KMW-60041 and more small printer stands Printer stand: Find, Compare, Read Reviews & Buy Online @ Yahoo! Shopping and more Kensington Printer Stand - compare prices, reviews and buy at NexTag - Price - Review .  I guess you could use an old plastic beverage crate if you still had one hanging around.  I used to have about a half dozen red plastic Coca Cola www.coke.com beverage crates, but they have Gone with the Wind a long time ago.   Actually, since I have the EpsonStylus Color 880 printer sitting on top of the HP LaserJet IID, I was think it would be easier to use the HP if the Epson were on the Kensington Adjustable desktop stand Buy.com - Printer stand - light gray - plastic - 50545 $18 free shipping , but at the moment, I do not feel like making the investment.  I might be able to improvise something later.   CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 11:45 A.M.:  For the Big Buck Boys Staples.com®. that was easy™.  Save $150 Konica Minolta color laser printers for $250 and $350 after rebates.  Remember each one takes four $80 toner catridges when you go to replace your toner cartridges .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 11:00 A.M.:  Greenwich Time - Where plates collide .  Old rocks in Northwest Greenwich.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 10:45 A.M.:  CNN.com - Hawaiian king's time capsule found, but will stay buried - Dec 11, 2005 .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 10:45 A.M.:  I went out, and I removed the frost from my car windows.  The driver's side windshield wiper was not removing all of the moisture on the left side of the glass.  I switched the windshield wipers around, and there was still the same problem.  I then bent the driver's side wiper in towards the windshield a small bit, and that seemed to fix the problem.  I then went downtown to CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I picked up two prescriptions.  I also bought a 7 ounce bag of black licorice for $1.39 plus .08 tax for $1.47.  I then bought a $14.99 package of Nuprin 200 mg. ibuprofen tablets 225 count on sale for $6.99 plus I had a $5 off CVS 225 count Nuprin cash register coupon, so I only paid $1.99.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and then I returned home.  The passenger side cleaner spray tube that came detached from the small wiper arm on the passenger's side front head lamp on my Volvo station wagon might have broken off from its arm.  When I have some time, I can resecure it with some black plastic electrical tape.  It looks to be a nice day.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 8:50 A.M.:  I look at Cheapstingybargains.com - Free Online Coupons, Dell, Overstock, Amazon! frequently,   I found this  Staples.com®. that was easy™. Memorex 512MB Travel Drive at Techbargains - discount computer sale buy cheap digital camera review cheap laptop techbargain tech bargain - Techbargains.com .  I will now put the computer on standby, and I will go out, I have to go by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and then I will return.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 8:40 A.M.:  This is a pretty popular look around this neck of the woods Cheap Stingy Bargains: Amazon has Lee Jeans for Dirt Cheap .  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 8:30 A.M.:  I might order this if I think I need it Desktop Adjustable Stand for 80/132-Column Printers, Gray by KENSINGTON KMW50545 $20 or cheaper Buy.com - Printer stand - light gray - plastic - 50545 $18 free shipping .  I like putting my printers on stands, so I can store items like paper underneath them.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 8:25 A.M.:  UPS tracking for the Staples.com®. that was easy™. Lexmark E238 for $179.98 less $36 online coupon and $80 online Easy Rebate for $64 plus tax and free shipping and I ordered it for $143.98 plus $8.64 tax for $152.62 with free shipping and I filled out the $80 Easy Rebate online Staples Easy Rebates , so after I receive the $80 rebate in a month, it will cost me $72.62 total is UPS Package Tracking Lexmark E238 laser printer from Staples for Mike Scott .    I toasted two pieces of Arnold multigrain bread, and I put Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise on both slices.  I put four 1/32nds thick slices of rare roast beef on the sandwich and then five 1/32nd thick slices of Stop and Shop Swiss cheese and then I added six medium spinach leaves, and I seasoned the sandwich with salt and pepper, and I put the top piece on, and I cut it in half, and I ate it with a glass of ice tea.  I finished going through my email.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 12/11/05:

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 6:45 A.M.:  I fixed the problems with Vista beta 1 build 5231 on my primary computer secondary partition Michael Louis Scott's Microsoft Vista Beta Notes .   I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 2:30 A.M.:  Now I am going to reboot in Vista beta with the router turned on, and time how long it takes to boot up.  Thus the next note will be from Michael Louis Scott's Microsoft Vista Beta Notes , but I can post non Vista beta notes with Microsoft Word 2003 installed on the Vista beta partition as well as the Vista notes.  I will also uninstall the Logitech drivers.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/05 Sunday 2:15 A.M.:  I went out after the last message without cleaning up, so I could get over to CVS at the Riverside Shopping Plaza before this past week's sales ended at midnight.  I cleaned the snow off the hood of my car and the windshield.  I need to get a new set of windshield wiper blades, since the moisture on the far left of the windshield is not wiped off properly.  I drove over to CVS at the Riverside shopping center on Interstate 95 East from exit 2 to exit 5 to put a little bit of higher speed mileage on my Volvo station wagon.  I bought buy one get one free two RTH 15 foot white extension cords for $3.99 both, a 60 yard roll of Tartan 18 mm white utility masking tape for $1.99, and 7 ounce container of Edge sensitive skin with aloe shave gel for $2.29 plus .50 Connecticut 6% sales tax for $8.77 total.  I then went downtown, and I sat out briefly.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  The staff at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club are using all of the parking places at the end of Steamboat Road, so there is little or no place to park down there.  Technically nobody is supposed to be parked down there after 9 P.M., and it is well posted.  However, as usual the people affiliated with the Indian Harbor Yacht Club in Greenwich always seem to think they are above the law.   At least their weather station still works Indian Harbor Yacht Club, Greenwich, Connecticut Real-Time Weather .  Since Tom Watson was ambassador to Russia, and they were members of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, more than likely we have a few Russians around the facility.  I then returned home.  I brushed the rest of the snow off the hood and roof of my Volvo, since the heated inside temperature warmed up the roof.  I had to reinstall the left passenger side headlight wiper blade, but the spray washer nozzle is disconnected, and I can not figure out how to reattach it in the night light.  I then went back up to my apartment, and I showered, and I cleaned up.  Splish Splash I was taking a bath all about a Saturday night.  I started up the primary computer in XP.  I put two new AA Duracell batteries in my Logitech cordless optical mouse, and I reset its wireless connection by pressing the sending unit button and then the button on the bottom of the mouse.  When working with the Logitech wireless optical mouse, the red laser light is always on, so one should be careful not to shine it in one's eyes.  I put the old batteries which still have some life in them in my used battery bag on the battery shelf on the side board in the bedroom.  When I started up XP, and I clicked on a desktop icon, all of the icons to the left and up above it were high lighted.  I had to reboot.  It lead me to believe that somebody had been once again tampering with my computer.  I have only told one person the CMOS password.  I have further proof, since I ran Ad-awareSE personal edition before shutting down this past morning, and I only booted XP to post a note briefly before going out.  When I ran Ad-awareSE again, it caught 33 spyware problems, which should not be on a system unused for a day.  I also mentioned the password out loud in my apartment, so somebody technically could be monitoring my apartment sound or through the internet and have gotten the password that way.  The other possibility is that there is a universal CMOS password for my motherboard and motherboards in general.  The XP password is not hard to override.  Thus there is still mischief afoot at a high level of competence.  I put the two new 15 foot electrical extension cords in the cable box underneath the living room desk.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/10/05 Saturday 10:40 P.M.:   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I chatted with a relative.  I watered the plants, and I threw out the garbage and old periodicals.  I need to clean off the snow of my Volvo station wagon when I go out in a little while.  When Vista was in screen saver mode, and I brought it out, the mouse was frozen, and it rebooted, so now I am back in XP.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/10/05 Saturday 8:20 P.M.:  I was awake at 3 P.M..  I have been working with the Vista beta Michael Louis Scott's Microsoft Vista Beta Notes .  I am using Word 2003 in Vista beta 1 build 5231 to post my notes from Vista.  I went downstairs, and I picked up my mail earlier.  I made my bed.  I still have to eat breakfast.  I am not going to do my house cleaning this week, since the apartment does not really get that dirty, I figure I can do it every two weeks.  I still have to water the plants and throw out the garbage every week.  I put a new label on the LPT Siemens printer port box to reflect the printers connected to it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/10/05 Saturday 2:40 A.M.:  I worked in Microsoft Vista Beta 1 X86 build 5231.  I was able to get it working properly without any problems.  I posted these notes on what I did to fix it Michael Louis Scott's Microsoft Vista Beta Notes .   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.   CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 10:30 P.M.:  Windows OneCare Live - Home .  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 10:25 P.M.:  Vista beta 1 build 5231 started up all right, when I booted with the router turned off.  However, once I turned on the router, and started working with it according to the Task Manager the CPU started maxing out at 100%, when it should have been just a fraction of that.  It did the same when I first installed it without any of the device drivers installed, so it leads me to believe there is a memory leak in the Vista beta build 5231.   I chatted with two relatives.  I opened a 18 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder, and I put it in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid, and I heated it on the reheat cycle of the General Electric microwave oven.  I then put the hot soup in a large Cobalt blue soup bowl with a couple of small handfuls of Arnold regular cut seasoned croutons.  I ate it all with a little bit of pepper and a glass of iced tea.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 8:35 P.M.:  I downloaded and watched the Windows Vista movie available at http://connect.microsoft.com/ .  I am not working as much in Vista, because product activation will not let me use Microsoft FrontPage 2002 in Vista, so it would be hard to keep my log while working.  However, I do not have much to do right now, so I will boot into Vista to see if it starts up all right now.  The last time I ran Norton Win Doctor 2003 in Vista, it seemed to fix the boot up problem by fixing some of its active X entries.  I am not configuring Vista because beta 2 is suppose to be out around Christmas Time.  My batteries are getting low on my Logitech wireless optical mouse, but they seem to have enough life in them for now.  Basically, I have not been working too much in Vista, because for the last couple of months, I have been doing a little bit of apartment tweaking and computer hardware tweaking.  You have to remember, my entire lifestyle including all expenses including computer expenses is on a budget of less than $10,000 a year, so I think they are living high on the hog in India or where ever Microsoft seems to think it is cheaper.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 7:50 P.M.:  I researched the Lexmark E238, and it is a newer model printer, so spare remanufactured cartridges are not yet available at a discount price.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 6:50 P.M.:  I stumbled across this page SlickDeals.net Forums - Lexmark E238 Laser Printer $40/$30 @Staples , and since I have a $20 off Staples coupon with a MasterCard purchase of over a $100 purchase, I thought I might check to see if I could get an extra $20 of the purchase I made earlier today.  However, on the $20 off coupon, it says it can not be combined with any other coupons.  I called up Staples at 1-800-3-STAPLE Staples.com® | Who do I contact if I am having problems with your web site? , and they confirmed that one can not combine coupons, so I do not get an extra $20 off.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 5:50 P.M.:  I did a little research, and I am going to try to hook up to my Siemens Speedstream 4 port router with parallel print server with another 4 port router with a USB print server.  I found it at DI-704P Factory Sealed/Refurbished Broadband 4Port Router w/Print Server. for $24 refurbished and $8.59 priority mail shipping for $32.59.  It is the same as this new model D-Link DI-704UP 4-Port Broadband Router Plus USB Print Server which is more expensive new.  However, I do not know if daisy chaining the routers will work or not.  I am not that expert on networking, but it seems like it might work.  I already have the Siemens Speedstream router with 4 LAN ports and a parallel port connected to my printer port box.  Connected to the Siemens router, I have another 8 port etherfast switch.  Besides my LAN connections, I also have connected I think to the ethefast switch my AT&T wireless router with four LAN connections.   However, I just thought about it, and I had ordered the 704P model which is a parallel port model.  I called them up, and I cancelled the order, and the money should be back in my account in a couple of days.  This is what I think I need to hook up my USB printers to the network DP-301U D-Link Factory Sealed/Refurbished Fast Ethernet USB Print Server , but I do not need it at the moment, so I will not order it right now.  With it, I would be able to connect USB printers directly to my network, not that anyone is using the network.  I should learn to not buy on impulse on bargains available.   They are always around most of the time.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 4:10 P.M.:  Save on the Krups Espremio Auto Cappuccino/Latte/Esp FNP211-42 at SmartBargains.com $65 .  Save on the All Season 260TC White Goose Down Comforter at SmartBargains.com $45 .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 2:55 P.M.:  I finished going through my email.  Buy.com - Crucial 512mb GIZMO! USB 2.0 Flash Drive $30 free shipping  - 109962  and Buy.com - Memorex 1GB TravelDrive USB 2.0 Flash Drive $55 plus 20 mail rebate - 32509060 .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 2:25 P.M.:  Windows Live Local .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 2:05 P.M.:  I went downstairs, and I picked up the mail.  It looks like we had about four inches of snow, but it is now sunny.  I toasted two pieces of Arnold multigrain bread, and I put Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise on both slices.  I put five 1/32nds thick slices of rare roast beef on the sandwich and then five 1/32nd thick slices of Stop and Shop Swiss cheese and then I added five 1/8th thick slices of onion and six medium spinach leaves, and I seasoned the sandwich with salt and pepper, and I put the top piece on, and I cut it in half, and I ate it with a glass of ice tea.  I will now go through my email.  CIO      

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 12:50 P.M.:  I have spent the last five hours trying to get the Epson Status monitor to work for the EpsonStylus 880 printer.  After uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers a number of times, it does not work from the tray icon, but it does work when one prints out.  I changed the USB cable connection on it to another port, and that did not make a difference.   I installed this utility to monitor the EpsonStylus Color 880 ink status from the tray http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml .  It was all pretty much a waste of time on a minor detail, but that is the nature of computers.  Possibly the utility since it was already installed did something to interfere with the Epson status monitor.  Of it could be some other problem.   The EpsonStylus Color 880 has plenty of ink it like all of the other inkjet printers.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 8:05 A.M.:  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I watched a CSPAN channel 66 presentation by Senator Bill Frist on the Global Pandemic Flu Epidemic that will arrive in this country sooner or later, and he said there should be civilian volunteers getting prepared to meet it along with a lot of other interesting information.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 6:50 A.M.:  Since there is no room for the second small Swiss flag on the HP LaserJet IID printer, I moved the second small Swiss flag to on top of the right primary Dell 20 inch monitor on the primary computer system.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 6:25 A.M.:  I moved the EpsonStylus Color 880 inkjet printer from the lower printer stand shelf to the right of the computer to on top of the HP IID laser printer on the dining room table.  One can still use the HP IID laserjet printer, attached to the Siemens parallel port box, but one would have to move the EpsonStylus Color 880 inkjet printer to open up the HP LaserJet IID if there were a paper jam.  I put a longer USB cable on it, but I plugged it into the same USB port, so it does not need to be reconfigured.  I did not attach the LPT Siemens parallel cable since I will use that for the Lexmark E238 laser printer along with its USB port.  I left the parallel cable and another USB cable available at the top left of the printer stand to the right of the primary computer.  Thus I have the space and cables all set up to install the Lexmark E238 laser printer.  From that top left printer stand location, I moved the HP Photosmart P1000 printer to the middle shelf of the printer stand with the same cables.   This page has the information on the Lexmark E238 laser printer Lexmark E238 -- Lexmark United States .  I will run the Lexmark E238 from the USB 2.0 port on the primary computer, and I will also have it set up on the Siemens LPT port box, so it can work off any of the computers in the apartment once the drivers are install.  When I put in the new AMD Athlon 3000 CPU, I will have to disconnect all of the cables from the primary computer to move the CPU, so to keep track of them I should get some masking tape to label the cables.  Most of the cables are easy to keep track of, but I have 10 USB cables attached to back of the primary computer CPU, and it is easy to confuse them.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 5:20 A.M.:  At the moment, we only have about an inch of snow.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 5:05 A.M.:  I ordered from Cheap Stingy Bargains: Lexmark E238 Laser Printer and Staples.com®. that was easy™. Lexmark E238 for $179.98 less $36 online coupon and $80 online Easy Rebate for $64 plus tax and free shipping and I ordered it for $143.98 plus $8.64 tax for $152.62 with free shipping and I filled out the $80 Easy Rebate online Staples Easy Rebates , so after I receive the $80 rebate in a month, it will cost me $72.62 total.  I will put the Lexmark E238 laser printer to the left of my Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W laser printer on the printer cart, and I will move the HP PhotoSmart P1000 to the lower shelf, and I will move the EpsonStylus Color 880 from that position, and I guess I will put it on top of the HP LaserJet 6L laser printer to the right of the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  When I get the AMD Athlon XP 3000 processor, I will put it in my primary computer, and I will move the AMD Athlon XP 2000 processor from it to my Northgate Syntax backup computer, and I will removed the AMD Duron 1600 from it, and I will save it for backup purposes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/09/05 Friday 4:00 A.M.:  I was awake at 3 A.M..  Since I built a new computer this summer www.geocities.com/mikelscott/computer.htm , I still had not bought a new CPU for it.  I did a search, and it is hard to find, but I finally found a good price on a new CPU for it AMD Athlon XP-3000 2.167GHz 512K 400MHz CPU OEM, Consumer Electronics, PC Accessories .  I bought it OEM for $88.40 plus $16.15 priority mail shipping and handling for $104.55.  If one looks at this pricewatch ® - The Web's first and best price comparison search engine , it is hard to find, and its price has been going up recently.   CIO

Note: <888> 12/08/05 Thursday 8:35 P.M.:  I surfed the internet for a while.  I chatted with a relative.  Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/08/05 Thursday 6:20 P.M.:  I opened a 19 ounce can of Hormel Steakhouse beef stew, and I put it in a plastic microwave proof pot with lid, and I microwaved it twice on the reheat cycle.  I put it in a large soup bowl, and I ate it with a glass of iced tea.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/08/05 Thursday 5:25 P.M.:  I had a telephone call from a relative at 9:30 A.M., and I called the relative back on my line.  My order from www.ordersmokesdirect.com arrived containing 6 cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100 cigarettes in a box for $11.49 a carton and $10.50 Priority Mail shipping for $79.44 that I had already paid when I ordered them.  I woke up at noon.  I prepared and ate a Betty Crocker 2.8 ounce Bowl Appetite garlic parmesan dish, which I ate with iced tea.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I went downtown, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  I next went to my usual 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought five 21 ounce Maria Callender frozen meat lasagna dishes for $2 each, Dole organic bananas at .69 a pound for $1.43, and a 3 liter container of Bertolli BERTOLLI extra virgin olive oil for $21.99 for $33.42 total.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor, and I picked up my mail.  I put away my purchases.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/08/05 Thursday 8:35 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will take a nap until noon.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/08/05 Thursday 8:10 A.M.:  Amazon.com: Huffy Pulsator Men's 26-Inch Mountain Bike: Sports & Outdoors .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/08/05 Thursday 7:55 A.M.:  I toasted two pieces of Arnold multigrain bread, and I put Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise on both slices.  I put six 1/32nds thick slices of rare roast beef on the sandwich and then four 1/32nd thick slices of Stop and Shop Swiss cheese and then I added six 1/8th thick slices of onion and six medium spinach leaves, and I seasoned the sandwich with salt and pepper, and I put the top piece on, and I cut it in half, and I ate it with a glass of ice tea.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/08/05 Thursday 7:20 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went to the Valley Road post office, and I used the automated postal center, and I bought 18 U.S.A. .37 Christmas stamps for $6.66.  I then put one stamp on the two envelopes that needed stamps.   I then mailed them at the mail slots in the lobby which was opened for maintenance a little bit earlier.  I thus used 51 .37 stamps on my Christmas cards. Two of the envelopes to England and Holland were over an ounce, so I used 5  .37 stamps on each for the $1.60 air mail postage, and the other envelope under an ounce to Denmark air mail, I use 3 .37 stamps for the .80 postage.  I had 14 other envelopes with domestic postage of over an ounce for two .37 stamps each and 8 one ounce domestic envelopes with one .37 stamps each.  The postage calculator on the internet USPS - The United States Postal Service (U.S. Postal Service)  shows only one pound rate to Europe which is much higher, but if you look at Country Conditions for Mailing - Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Includes England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and the Isle of Man) , it shows an 80 cent an ounce rate via air mail.  I then went downtown, and I drove down by the waterfront.  For all of you nautical buffs, the Queen Mary II returns back to Manhattan today from the southern Caribbean QM2 - Itinerary - 2005 for a return trip back down to the Caribbean, and it will not be back to Manhattan until Tuesday December 20, 2005.  I then returned back home.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/08/05 Thursday 5:45 A.M.:   I have the Christmas Cards and letters ready to mail.  I was two .37 stamps short, but I can get those at the post office.  I will now put some warmer clothes on, and I will go to the Valley Road Post Office to mail the Christmas cards and letters.  I will put the computer on standby while I go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/08/05 Thursday 3:45 A.M.:  I have the 25 Christmas letter card envelopes printed out.  Basically on my setup, I used the Lexmark X1185 to print out the envelopes with it set as the default printer in XP.  In the printer settings, one sets the printer for the custom size envelope size, and in Microsoft Office 2003 Word in the Envelope and Label program one sets it to the custom size envelope to feed with the stamp corner in the upper left corner position lengthwise face up on the Lexmark X1185 with the paper guide set to the envelope size.  On my computer, I have a list of 25 names and addresses in one long Microsoft Word file, and as I highlight each entry, it appears in the address box of Microsoft Office 2003 Word envelope utility, and the return address is saved after the first entry.  Every time I print an entry I set the font of the return address larger and bold.  The envelope address is the same font as the list.  One sets the Word 2003 envelope program for the correct envelope size, orientation, and I enable printing an address bar code.  The Lexmark X1185 handles the thicker envelopes used for Christmas cards.  I now have to sign the cards and letters and folder the letters and stuff the envelopes and seal and stamp them.  Most of the difficult work is done, and it is now time for the repetitive grunge work.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/08/05 Thursday 2:00 A.M.:   I used to the Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 to makes my Christmas Letter Michael Louis Scott's Christmas 2005 Letter . I printed out 28 copies on the HP Deskjet 842C.  I am using envelopes for my Christmas cards that are thin enough to print out on the inkjet printer.   I will now print out the envelopes, and then I have to sign the letter and cards and then I have to stuff the envelopes and seal and stamp them.  I made www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm , and I put it in the refrigerator.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/07/05 Wednesday 11:20 P.M.:  I was awake at 8:30 P.M..  I checked my mail.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I chatted with a relative.  I threw out the Lexmark X1185 box and some other garbage.  I will now write and print out my Christmas letter, and I have to prepare the Christmas cards to go with it.  Since some of the Christmas card envelopes are thick, I will print out address labels to go on them instead of printing out the address information on the envelopes.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/07/05 Wednesday 9:20 A.M.:  On the Vista beta partition, I installed the Creative WebCam drivers and software.  I also did some minor tweaks.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/07/05 Wednesday 5:25 A.M.:  I sliced six 1/4 inch by 2.5 inch by 1.75 inch slices of low fat mozzarella cheese, 6 medium mushrooms into quarter inch thick slices, and I set them aside.  I then put about .75 inch of water in the plastic microwave proof pot, and I put in about 3 ounces of spinach and the sliced mushrooms, and I put the lid on, and I put it the microwave oven to have ready to cook.  I then put two bagel halves in the toaster to have ready to cook.  I then put two tablespoons of olive oil and three pads of margarine in my omelet pan.  I then broke three extra large eggs in a metal mixing bowl, and I added two tablespoons of milk and  a tablespoon of grated parmesan cheese.  I whisked the egg mixture together until it was bubbly.  I then turn on the electric heat on the omelet pan to medium high.  I turned on the vegetable cycle of the General Electric microwave oven to heat the spinach and mushrooms.  I ran this cycle twice, and once they were heated I drained the water out with a wire strainer.  I started the bagel halves toasting on the inside half only with my Rowenta toaster that will toast on only one side feature.  Once the omelet pan fat began to bubble, I added the egg mixture, and I let it cook until it was hard enough to flip over to the other side, and then I let it cook briefly to harden up the reverse side.   I put it on a  microwave proof dinner plate partially cooked unfolded flat on the plate, and I spread the six pieces of mozzarella cheese on top of it andthen the heated spinach and mushroom mixture around the omelet and then the 11 black pitted olives and 15 grape tomatoes, and I covered it all with a microwave proof plate lid, and I heated it on the reheat cycle of General Electric Microwave oven for about half of the reheat cycle or about three minutes until the cheese began to melt.  I then sprinkled a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on top of the open face omelet, and I also put a little bit of olive oil on the toasted bagel halves.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  It was quite enjoyable.  I then washed the dishes, and I do not wash the omelet pan, but I wipe it clean with a paper towel to keep it seasoned.  I will now boot into Vista, and I will install the Vibra webcam drivers and its software.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/07/05 Wednesday 4:15 A.M.:  I have the Visioneer 7600 One Touch USB set up on the bedroom Dell L1000R computer.  It will fax, scan, copy, and print documents.  It took a while, but it works fine.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/07/05 Wednesday 12:55 A.M.:  I did some system maintenance after the last message.   On the primary computer, I uninstalled the Lexmark X85 software that was still on the computer after I had moved the Lexmark X85 to the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  I then uninstalled the Visioneer Paperport software and the Lexmark X1185 software and the Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W software.  I then ran Norton Win Doctor 2003.  I disconnected the Visioneer 7600 One Touch USB scanner from the primary computer, and I connected it up to the Dell L1000R computer in the bedroom, and I moved the Visioneer 4400 scanner back to the primary computer.  I installed the Visioneer 4400 Paperport software and driver, and then I installed the Visioneer 4400 Print driver update.  I then installed the Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W drivers.  I then installed the Lexmark X1185 software, and I reset the ink cartridges to new.  I then ran Norton WinDoctor 2003.  I rebooted a number of times, and then I did a System Restore backup.  I do not need the fax capable Visioneer 7600 One Touch USB on the primary computer, since I have the X1185 which scans, copies, and faxes.  On the Dell L1000R computer in the bedroom, I changed the modem connection back to Optimum Voice.  I will now install the Visioneer Paperport software and drivers for the Visioneer 7600 One Touch USB on the Dell L1000R computer in the bedroom.  I also chatted with a relative whom traveled and arrived safely today.   Since I do not have the time to watch television, my relative told me that they were watching a new television program called, "Commander and Chief".  With the Visioneer 4400 scanner, the Minolta laser printer does not have enough memory to print out high resolution copies, but the X1185 at 300 DPI does print out on the Minolta laser printer.  I have printed out about 2500 sheets on it, and since it came with a 1250 sheet starter cartridge that means that I have used up 1250 sheets on the replacement generic refilled 6000 sheet cartridge, so I have about 4500 sheets left on the current toner cartridge.  According to a search on Ebay, I can buy replacement toner for it for about $8.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/05 Tuesday 8:20 P.M.:  There is a catch on the Lexmark E238 laser printer on sale.  It comes with a 1500 sheet starter cartridge, but a replacement 2,000 sheet cartridge costs about $110 to $130.  Of course one could try to refill it with a toner cartridge refill kit.  Thus it looks like it would be expensive to maintain, since none of the toner cartridge remanufactures seem to have a generic replacement cartridge, and one would need to buy the new one.  CIO     

Note: <888> 12/06/05 Tuesday 7:20 P.M.:  I woke up at 2 P.M..  I toasted two pieces of Arnold multigrain bread, and I put Hellmann's low fat mayonnaise on both slices.  I put five 1/32nds thick slices of rare roast beef on the sandwich and then four 1/32nd thick slices of Stop and Shop Swiss cheese and then I added three 1/4th thick slices of onion and five medium spinach leaves, and I seasoned the sandwich with salt and pepper, and I put the top piece on, and I cut it in half, and I ate it with a glass of ice tea.  I picked up my mail.  I then showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, I cleaned the snow off my windshield of my Volvo.  I then went by the  Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a six pack of onion bagels for $1.85.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I next went by the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop.  I then drove down by the waterfront.  I then went to Staples in Old Greenwich.  I bought from the clearance section a Xerox HP 95A toner cartridge for $8.50, a set of 75 sheets of 10 blank business cards for 750 total for $5.50, a www.jettecusa.com Lexmark black ink cartridge refill kit for $11.99 and a www.jettecusa.com Lexmark color ink cartridge refill kit for $14.99 less a $10 discount card on over a $20 purchase plus $1.86 tax for $32.84 total.  I went out, and I put my purchases in the car.  I then went back in the store, and I bought a 500 sheet package of Staples 92 bright printing paper for $4.98 plus .30 tax for $5.28 total.   I noticed they have this store deal Staples.com®. that was easy™. Lexmark X3350 Color Sheet-fed All-in-One for $17 less for $63, but although it is a better machine that the one that I bought it does not seem to have fax software included, but maybe it is not mentioned.  I have a $20 off coupon for over a $100 online purchase at www.staples.com , so if I bought this Cheap Stingy Bargains: Lexmark E238 Laser Printer , I would get it for $44, but currently I do not have enough money in my account to lend Staples $80 for six weeks.  However, at $44 it would be a give away.  I am not sure how many sheet toner cartridge it comes with, since some laser printers come with starter cartridges.  I got the two Staples discount cards in the mail for using my Staples card.  I might have enough money to buy it at the end of the week, but I do not really need it, but at that price it is hard to turn down.  I then went downtown briefly, and I used the ATM machine at Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Greenwich Avenue.  I then returned home.  I put the Xerox cartridge underneath my dining table with the other spare HP 95A cartridge.  I put the business cards with my other blank business cards on the lower shelf of the printer stand, and I put the spare paper there.  I put the ink replacement kits on the wicker rack behind the left monitor.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/05 Tuesday 6:45 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will take a nap.  Stay warm.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/05 Tuesday 6:25 A.M.:  On sale but $17 shipping Surplus Computers TOL10130  - 2 in 1 Jumpstart/Air Compressor $19.99 and $17.95 shipping .  I already have one, but a jump start would cost you that much.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/05 Tuesday 5:40 A.M.:  I went through my email.  I ate the last 3 ounces of a bag of Arnold regular cut seasoned croutons.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/05 Tuesday 4:50 A.M.:  I mailed out the $10 Lexmark rebate on the Lexmark X1185 in the mail room yesterday.  I just made and ate Michael Louis Scott's Pork and Beans with Franks  which I made with a 16 ounce can of B&M baked beans with bacon and onion flavor, which I had with a glass of iced tea.  I will now go through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/05 Tuesday 3:30 A.M.:  I checked outside, and we do not seem to have gotten any snow.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/05 Tuesday 3:25 A.M.:  Earlier today I moved the Lexmark X1185 paper work and manual to the metal file holder on top of the mahogany bureau in the bedroom, and I moved its CDs to the CD holder on the right side of the bedroom desk.  I also put a afghan throw on the far end of each couch in the living room and on the back of each couch I have a medium weight comforter and blanket.  Although the living room my be a bit cool and drafty with the Lasko fan on low blowing the heat around the apartment, I do have the heat turned on in the living room, whereas I do not have it turned on in the bedroom.   The warmest place in the apartment is probably the kitchen of the living room, since it is surround by heavy brick walls and I have two layers of carpet and a area rug on the kitchen floor and the refrigerator seems to generate a little heat.  Thus one could sleep underneath a comforter on the kitchen floor and be fairly warm.  I am comfortable enough in the bedroom with the electric blanket and heavy comforter.  Of course one can always wear long underwear http://www.geocities.com/mikelscott/lj.htm inside, and I also have a heavy bathrobe that I can wear if it gets very cold.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/05 Tuesday 2:45 A.M.:  Here is a good deal on a laser printer, if you do not mind waiting for the rebate Cheap Stingy Bargains: Lexmark E238 Laser Printer .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/05 Tuesday 2:35 A.M.:  I studied the Intel Ivista SE program, and it seems to be out of date, and it will not work with XP or on my computer.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/05 Tuesday 1:00 A.M.:   I noticed today that United States Steel Company was a big gainer on the New York Stock exchange.  It is the nature of the Carnegie family besides the small piece of property here in Greenwich, Connecticut where they try to make a living selling Christmas trees, they also have a design center at their house in Manhattan, and they have more property in Scotland where they try to make a living off salmon fishing.  They sold the United States Steel company to J.P. Morgan, and they gave a lot of money to public libraries, so today they probably read a lot.  Whether there is any money left in that family it is hard to tell, but since Tom Scott started Andrew Carnegie off as a telegraph operator and let him use his private library while Tom Scott was the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad.  Tom Scott managed to barrow money from the Warburg bank to finance the expansion of the Pennsylvania railroad, and by controlling the railroad he gave John Davidson Rockefeller the monopoly on hauling oil from the Midwest, and helped Andrew Carnegie get started in the steel business.  Obviously railroads besides hauling oil back then, also used a lot of steel.  Of course the Warburg bank were agents of the Rothschild Bank, and the Rothschilds were able to barrow money from the Kaiser of Germany, and all the Kaiser of Germany was able to do was raise taxes.   It you keep pressing your luck, I can arrange for you to see some eight feet tall people in Russia and Canada.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/05 Tuesday 12:35 A.M.:  I rested until 8 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.   I chatted with a relative who was watching a basket ball game.   I went back to bed until 11 P.M..  I ate the last piece of apple pie.   I watched on the Turner movie channel the beginning of the movie with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope "The Road to Singapore", but I have some computer work to do, so I turned it off.  Recently since I have not been going downtown everyday, and I have been staying inside in my warmer apartment instead of going downtown, when I do go out, I have been seeing the physically larger group of more Nordic people whom traditionally live in this area.  I guess more of them are staying local instead of traveling around with higher prices of fuel.  The Queen Mary II is due back from Barbados in Manhattan this Thursday December 8, 2005 QM2 - Itinerary - 2005 , so maybe they will be importing some Mount Gay Barbados rum into this area.  I think my friend Fred Von Mierers www.geocities.com/mikelscott/fred.htm , since he is 14th generation Dutch New York is involved in some of those original Dutch holding in the Americas.   Technically for all I know he might have large holding in Jamaica such as Meyers rum and aluminum bauxite holdings.  With the older families in this area, they have extensive holdings in the Americas, and although they usually do not manage the holding themselves, they manage to survive off the interest off the interest off the interest so as to maintain their capital investments.  I have never really looked into what the Scott family investments might entail after all of these years, but although it is a large family, there are probably large investments in the Americas.  Since I am one of the physically smaller members of my family, I am use to seeing larger members of my family, and although they have my same look, they are frequently much larger in person.  However, most of my friends are smaller than I am.  I do have a few larger friends.  When I first started working with home computers about 16 years ago, I met Roger Schultz who was a friend of Nancy Rockefeller's and he worked with home computers.  I recall he lived across the street from www.abb.com on Long Ridge Road in Stamford, Connecticut, and as I recall Roger weighed somewhere between 600 to 800 pounds.  I have not seen him in many years, but he visited with me in my apartment when I first moved here, and I occasionally drove him around in my 1984 Ford Escort that would not start in the winter.  More than likely he stuck with the computer business.  When I use to go to the computer trade fairs around this area, there was also a equally large group of men whom use to attend such events.  CIO    

Note: <888> 12/05/05 Monday 1:45 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I picked up my mail.  I ate two scoops of Edy's low fat slow churn coffee ice cream.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go back to bed.  If one is colder in these colder temperatures, one can always dress more warmly.  Being a cold weather person, I like colder weather since it tends to wake me up and make me a bit more alert.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/05/05 Monday 12:45 P.M.:  I booted Vista, and I tried to install Lexmark X1185 program on it, but the driver only install not the control program, so that has to be improved.  I called up www.ordersmokesdirect.com at 1-866-215-1069, and I ordered six cartons of Seneca Ultra Lights 100s in a box for $11.49 a carton plus $10.50 priority mail shipping for $79.44 total.  I rebooted into XP.  I ate four 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch by .25 inch slices of mozzarella cheese.  I chatted with a relative.  I left two messages with an associate.  I mentioned that the family that I stayed with out on Long Island had a son that use to visit Greenwich, Connecticut while I was out on Long Island, and he might be the father of a child whose mother did not know whom the father was.  Since the family in Long Island is quite established, and since there is a family resemblance there with the child's uncle, it is hard to tell, however I saw the child's father in the grocery store at the Stop and Shop when I was there on Saturday, and the fellow I know looks like he is established and eats more than his fair share of food.  He was eating a two foot long sandwich in the grocery store when I saw him.  Also that reminded me that when I first met this individual http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/chris2000.JPG , he did not seem to know whom his father really was, since a lot of his parents were hippies that had been at Woodstock.  What struck me about Chris is that he looks like Charlie Rumsey who is Mary Harriman Rumsey's son, and since Mary Harriman Rumsey is W. Averill Harriman's sister, they are a established family of ambassadorial rank.  They like working in the transportation business to make ends meet to run their family farms where ever they might be.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/05/05 Monday 9:35 A.M.:  Of course to use snow tires in this area, one has to be able to afford gasoline.  I threw out my garbage, and the regular building custodian is here.   The Greenwich Housing Authority representative has been away in Florida for the last two months on vacation, and he is due to return any day now.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/05/05 Monday 8:55 A.M.:  I emailed the Prime Minister, but for me to stay mobile in snowy conditions, he would have to send me a set of Dunlap snow tires and have them installed on my Volvo station wagon.  Local weather warning Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT .  I have a couple of friends that never visit me that have better all weather vehicles.  The British do now own Land Rover anymore, so I do not think we can depend on Land Rover, but we have connections with Henry Ford, since Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher use to live in Henry Ford's apartment in London, England.  My highest level contact with the Ford Family is a man I used to see in this area with a Burgundy Jaguar with Connecticut license plate "ROYAL", and he looked a bit like Henry Ford or Ted Donahue.  I also know Fred Ford, Rick Ford, Rob Ford, and Joe McDonald all of whom are Henry Ford's nephews.  I have met Edsel Ford, and I have seen Bill Ford around here occasionally.  Of course Ford is not the only car company in this neck of the woods.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/05/05 Monday 8:20 A.M.:  I chatted with my friend whose grandfather was one of Queen Victoria's honor guards, and I told him when I was down in Key West, Florida, I use to have a friend whom looked like him.  Since I was around a lot of the British Royal Navy personnel, my friend that investigates race horses looked like my friend in Key West back in 1976 - 1977 when Jim Eldert showed up.  My friend whom looks like George Cary use to play the role of the sheriff in Key West, Florida, and we all called him the "Debuty of Love", and what is strange that today he still looks like my friend that investigates race horses.  However down in Key West, Florida he wore a belt buckle on his blue jeans with a big star on it, and today he might be this person 10 Downing Street website - Home .  I think I will email him.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/05/05 Monday 7:55 A.M.:  If you look at my profile in www.classmates.com , I have updated it, and I also entered my current military status.  Since I was born in the United States of America, I am a United States Citizen, however since my family has very strong British connections although I have never been in England, I am also a serving member of the British Navy attached to the United States Army 1st Army Medical Laboratory in Manhattan, and I have been since I graduated from www.lfc.edu in Lake Forest, Illinois, since 1972.  My immediate superior is Doctor William Hampton at the Greenwich Hospital, and since I am legally disabled from extensive field activity in the service to my countries, I spend less time on medical research, and I focus primarily on computer internet research.  Since computers are key part to the research effort in medicine and since IBM is a large computer company and since I do obviously know how to use computers, I am focusing on the computer aspect of research.  Since I have served in the British Navy with senior British citizens, I am pretty much left to my own capability as far as what I am doing.  I have never even visited the Manhattan 1st U.S. Army Medical Laboratory, but more than likely they would know whom I am, since I spent most of my time around medical personnel in Manhattan and medical personnel when I was traveling.  I have no medical training just research training.  What has me irritated after all of the these years serving in the British Navy is that they do not pay any attention to me and my experience, and I am left pretty much working as a house boy in my own apartment.  Although the United States government does maintain me at a modest level, and although my family helps me out at a modest level, I am subject to the random practices of both the British and the United States governments, and I live like an exiled prince here in America.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/05/05 Monday 7:15 A.M.:  I ate a piece of apple pie with the last two scoops of frozen Stop and Shop dairy topping.  I do keep in my refrigerator freezer a small 8 ounce Rubbermaid container in a small plastic zip lock bag that contains a sample of the Jell-o mold that looked like the penicillin mold virus that I found growing on the jell-o in my apartment refrigerator over a year ago.  It now looks like a small chic pea size of frozen brown ice.  Since one of my neighbor's son is the chauffer for the president of Pfizer which makes penicillin, I thought it was interesting that penicillin mold virus was growing in my apartment.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/05/05 Monday 7:10 A.M.:  In this building where I live, we have an international group of people, so possibly they have introduced some foreign substance.  We also have a Haitian custodian, so maybe he is practicing voodoo.   We also have little brown spiders in the building, so possibly when they bite somebody, the can cause a problem.  We use to have a regular exterminator, and possibly whatever substance he uses for extermination causes people some sort of allergic reaction.  I did notice when I was downtown briefly at the veterans monument on Saturday night, somebody had left a three color cartridge in a yellow plastic casing by the veterans monument.  I did not know what it was, so I left it by the garbage can, and it looked like it might be some sort of spent flare cartridge.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/05/05 Monday 6:50 A.M.:  I am awake from my nap.  It seems strange like I was poisoned on Saturday morning.  Since I am drinking the same iced tea that I made the day before, it is not the iced tea.  I might have some sort of mold spore in the apartment left over from when I recycled the aquarium charcoal in my angel fish aquarium which I had before I got into computers.  I might have a neighbor doing something which is effecting me in my neighboring apartment.  Possibly I got a batch of bad Seneca cigarettes.  It is hard to tell.  Possibly I had a mild flu bug, or I just had a chill.  When I made my bed this morning after changing the sheets, I noticed the electric blanket was not plugged in, and since I do not have the heat turned on in the bedroom possibly I was just cold while I was sleeping.  Possibly since I might have some psychic abilities somebody nearby was having trouble.  I felt like a I had been poisoned or I had a bad allergy attack.  This has happened before, and having investigated similar occurrences, one option was that there is a large semi trailer truck that parks along side Interstate I-95 nearby on the highway at different times, and it is full of some sort of electronic jamming equipment that interferes with human brain waves.  However, if that were the case, one could easily ignore the electronic jamming by wearing a headset possibly.  Human brains operate basically with small synapses of electricity, and the other option could be that there was a solar flare on the sun which on the overcast weekend was not noticed.  Solar flares put out so much electrical interference that they can interfere with human brain wave activity, and it also my theory that they can cause tectonic activity on the planet.  With all of the electronics in the world and in this area, maybe somebody is experimenting with some sort of electronic equipment.  We could also have people from Cytec in the area using the local population as guinea pigs.  It is all a mystery, but since nobody in the community seems willing to discuss the matter, it is hard to tell.  Possibly since during World War II, they made Plutonium over at Cytec when it was American Cyanamid which owned part of Chemstrand that my father use to work for, they might be working on some sort of advanced civilian crowd control chemical substance they test on the local population in this area.  Whatever it is, it does not seem fair to the local community to be used a guinea pigs in this mischief.  We have a number of scientists in this area, so maybe one of them is up to something.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/05/05 Monday 12:45 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/05/05 Monday 12:40 A.M.:  I went through my email.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/05/05 Monday 12:05 A.M.:  I completed the computer maintenance and backup.  While the backup was running, I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  I use a tin of sardines that I chopped instead of tuna fish.  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used 1/3rd less fat mozzarella cheese.  I used 12 grape tomatoes.  I did not use homemade hummus.  I used all of the other regular items.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  While the backup was finishing, I watched a vintage Bob Hope comedy movie about Nazi spies in Washington D.C..  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/04/05 Sunday 8:45 P.M.:  I will now run Windows Updates, Norton Updates, Norton WinDoctor 2003, Ad-awareSE, and then I will do a Windows XP Professional backup from the C: drive to the D: drive.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/04/05 Sunday 8:20 P.M.:  I woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I am doing laundry, and I have 50 minutes left on the dry cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed.  With all of the public relations with prices going up on gasoline, most people have not seemed to be aware the price of electricity has also gone up about 50% in the last two years.  Also I use to get a 10 pack of Stop and Shop dried milk for $6.99, and now they only have a 5 pack of Carnation dried milk for $6.99, and each package makes a quart of milk.  Also I have noticed that toilet paper and paper towels have doubled in price.  Since I really do not buy a lot of items, I guess a lot of other items have gone up in price too.  I do not need any, but I noticed Eight O'Clock coffee beans in the large 36 ounce bag are on sale at the Food Emporium for $5.99.  I do have a Costco card if I need to buy in bulk.  Of course one has to have the money to buy in bulk.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/04/05 Sunday 9:20 A.M.:  I relaxed a bit.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  There is not much going on, and from what I can tell, with the colder weather that has arrived most people are simply staying at home to conserve energy.  CIO      

End of Scott's Notes week of 12/04/05:

Note: <888> 12/04/05 Sunday 7:30 A.M.:  I ate a piece of apple pie with two double tablespoons of the Stop and Shop low fat dairy frozen topping.  I mentioned to a fellow shopper tonight while I was shopping at the Stop and Shop that back in the good old days when gasoline was about fifty cents a gallon in the period from 1978 to 1980, when I went out to California about five times to support the disorganized republican party during Jimmy Carter's presidency, since all I was doing was freezing to death and living on pasta and tomato sauce and sleeping on a friend's sofa on Long Island when I was not in Nantucket or Florida or Fairfield County or Manhattan that on one trip when I was returning form San Francisco during the Iran Rescue alert, I was driving east across route ten, and I picked up two hitchhikers in New Mexico from Byram, Connecticut.  At Fort Stockton, Texas, I filled up my $150 1972 yellow Subaru with over a hundred thousand miles with about $10 of gasoline, and I gave one of the hitchhikers the money to pay for it, and when we left the gasoline station, I was stopped a couple of miles down the road for not paying for the gasoline at the Texaco station on Interstate 10.  The police let the hitchhikers go, and I do not recall ever running into them again in Byram.  However, I called up my Uncle Larry who at the time was a lawyer in Dallas, Texas, and the law enforcement dropped the charges, and I explored Fort Stockton, Texas which at the time did not have much to see, but I notice a lodge hall of the Brotherhood of Eagles, and in front of it was a sign saying it was the sight of the first Standard Oil Well in Texas.  I continued my journey to San Antonio, Texas, and I checked with the base commander at Kelly Air Force Base where the aborted rescue mission had left from, and there was a major security presence at the gate, and I passed through heavily armed guards at the gate.  I then continued my journey down to Key West, Florida and by Christmas Time, I returned to a relatives in Philadelphia.  I also mentioned that on another trip I was returning back from California, and I think about a year or two earlier, and I was driving with a friend east on Interstate 70, and a few hundred miles before Russell, Kansas, my water hose on the Subaru sprung a leak in an ice storm, and a few fellows up late at night in a garage near the highway fixed the leak and gave me some antifreeze, and I offered to pay them, and they did not ask to be paid, so I bought them a six pack of beer, which many people drink late on Saturday night in America particularly during an ice storm, if you are not going anywhere anyway.  That Sunday morning about 7 A.M., I rolled into Russell, Kansas, and the famous coffee shop was not opened, and nobody was around, so I did not see much of Russell, Kansas.  I do recall on the same trip east when it was a little bit warmer in Abilene, Kansas in the afternoon, I went by there to see what the The Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Website looked like.  I had a minor car problem on what I think was my first trip to California that fall in 1978 beside the broken windshield that I got in Midland, Texas, the starter motor on the Subaru would not start, so whenever I started the car, I had to park it on a hill, and pop the clutch, which was not too difficult in the hilly region of California.  However on the great plains, one had to push the Subaru to start it and jump in fairly quickly and pop the clutch.  I was finally able to fix it in Abilene, Kansas since the Buick Subaru dealership had the some few dollar fork part that moved the starter motor rotor drive into position.   I recall while fixing it, there were a few cadets from a local military academy watching me, and they were all very polite but quite amused.  I finally made it to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, but it was late in the afternoon, and they were closed.  I continued that trip down into Tulsa to see a relative and borrow a hundred dollars, which helped me make the rest of the way back down to Key West, Florida.  My friend figured out a way on the Rand McNally map to get from Abilene to Tulsa, and along the way we saw the Coleman Camping company, so since I had used a butane stove in California which frequently leaked butane from the Coleman butane cans, I left their defective butane cans outside of their company doors, with a note about the problem, and where I lived.  I never did hear back from them, but I have seen a lot of Coleman products in this area.  I do recall on that trip when I visited Vandenberg Air Force base that the general in charge was named Coleman also.  To be honest as I have said many times before, once you get away from this area, the United States of America has the worst weather in the world in a trip across country when one is exposed to so much lousy weather such as Drought, Forest Fire, and Tsunamis in California, blizzards in the Rockies, ice storms on the great plains, massive flooding in Arkansas and Louisiana, tornadoes in the Florida Pan Handle and Hurricanes in the Florida Keys, and when one makes it back up here for Christmas Time, all one finds is cold weather that one is familiar with, one begins to appreciate this area.  I think it was that first trip on return in December 1978 that I spent Christmas house sitting at the Burns Security home in Greenwich.  On the return the following year, after the Iran Hostage event began, I think I spent Christmas at my relative's house in Philadelphia.    The following Christmas I was a bit depressed in Manhattan, since my father's mother, my grandmother had died.  So despite the enthusiastic republicans around after Reagan's victory, I was rather sad for a long time.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/04/05 Sunday 5:20 A.M.:  I left the CDs that came with the Lexmark X1185 machine and the Intel Create and Share Upgrade program on the right hand mouse pad of the primary computer.  Following are two pictures of the Lexmark X1185 printer, copier, scanner, fax machine connected to the primary computer and the Lexmark X85 printer, copier, scanner, fax machine connected to the Northgate Syntax backup computer

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/lexmark-x1185-printer-scanner-copier-fax-machine-connected-primary-computer-mike-scott-apartment-120405.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/lexmark-x85-printer-scanner-copier-fax-machine-connected-northgate-syntax-backup-computer-mike-scott-apartment-120405.JPG

.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/04/05 Sunday 4:20 A.M.:  I have the Lexmark X1185 setup, and it is working just fine.  However, the half size cartridges are smaller, and do not hold a lot of ink.  I printed out about 8 black and white test pages in setting it up and copying the documentation, and it used about 1/10th of a black half size ink cartridge.  However, since I have so many other inkjet printers and laser printers, the Lexmark X1185's primary purpose is for copying quickly if the primary computer is turned off.  It is also for scanning and faxing which works if one manually turns on the external U.S. Robotics modem just below the center between the two monitors.  It is connected to Optimum Voice, so faxing in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico does not cost anything.  The Lexmark software scans just fine, and it lets one print out to my other printers including the laser printers in black and white which are less costly to operate.  When the Lexmark ink cartridges do run out with minimal use, I can always replace them with my larger cartridges that I bought.  It prints out very well.  I can also buy a color refill and black refill kit at Staples for $10 each and with my $10 discount card with a MasterCard charge of over $20, it would only cost me $10 and change, and I could thus refill the Lexmark ink cartridges, if I had to use the printing and copying features of the machine more often.  One can look up on the internet about how to refill a Lexmark cartridge.  I already have to empty refill kits, so I do not need the tools.  I printed out two copies of the Proof of Purchase Label, Shipping Invoice and filled out $10 rebate form that I scanned with the Lexmark machine and printed with the Minolta QMS PagePro 1250W laser printer.  The PaperPort scan software that came with the Visinoneer 4400 scanner does not seem to want to print out on high resolution on the Minolta laser printer, but with the Lexmark X1185 machine the software will scan at photo quality at 300 DPI, and it will print out just fine on the Minolta laser printer for a cost saving for any volume scan and print jobs.  I have the original rebate information with the original filled out $10 rebate form, the original UPC code with serial number, and the original shipping invoice in a stamped envelope ready to mail.  I put one copy of the rebate information in the stack of printouts to the right of my computer on the floor, and the other one in the metal file folder on top of the mahogany bureau in the bedroom.  One the rebate is received, the fine print says, it has to be cashed by April 30, 2006.  I put the Lexmark box on the back of the down sofa.  One could also quick copy in color at higher cost.  However, if one uses the Lexmark software on the computer, one can scan a higher resolution and preview and edit the copy before printing to the Lexmark or other printers.  It depends on the amount of time and cost one is willing to incur.  When the half size cartridges get low, I will probably refill them, and then I will use the larger cartridges, and refill them, and keep the smaller refilled cartridges in reserve.  I put the spare full size Lexmark ink cartridges on the wicker rack behind the left computer monitor.  Besides the Lexmark X1185 software CD, it came with four other photo and art programs on CDs that I will probably not use.  I copied down the Lexmark X1185 serial number on a label, and I put it away, since I am sending the original UPC label with serial number for the $10 rebate.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/04/05 Sunday 12:25 A.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I brought my folding cart with me to bring up the groceries from my Volvo.  I then went downtown, and I sat outside briefly.  They disconnected the Holiday lights on the tree by the veterans monument across the street from the Greenwich Senior and Arts center.  I then drove down by the waterfront, and I said hello to some former neighbors.  I then went by Val's Liquors at the Stop and Shop shopping plaza, and I bought a 10 ounce bottle of Angostura bitters for $8, since the owner did not have change instead of $8.49.  I then went by the Stop and Shop grocery store, and I bought four 10 ounce Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese bars for $2 each, four 59 ounce clear plastic bottles of Tropicana orange juice with calcium $2 each, Stop and Shop rare roast beef sliced thinly for $6.99 a pound for $7.13, Stop and Shop sliced thinly domestic Swiss cheese for 6.99 a pound for $5.96, a Libman dish scrup and soap dispenser for $1.99, a Libman dish scrup and soap dispenser two pack refill for $1.99, 9 sixteen ounce cans of B&M baked beans with maple flavor for .99 each, and one with bacon and onion for .99, a 5 quart package of Carnation dried milk for $6.49, a 28 ounce container of Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $4.29, a 100 pack package of Splenda sweetener for $4.79, a box of five different varieties 25 total of Twinings tea for $3.49, four boxes of a Vanish Borax toilet bowl cleaner tablets for $1.19 each, a pound of baby carrots for $1.50, a bunch of broccoli at $1.49 a pound for $1.47 total, a 10 ounce bag of fresh spinach for $2.19, a 10 ounce box of fresh mushrooms for $2.39, and two pints of grape tomatoes for .99 each for $76.42 total, and I received a $5 discount with the coupon card that came in the mail for over a $40 purchase this week ending today for $71.94 total.  I then returned home, and I brought up my purchases with my cart.  I put away the groceries.  I chatted with a relative.  I then sliced four 1/4 inch by 4 inch by 1.75 inch slices of low fat mozzarella cheese, 10 medium mushrooms into quarter inch thick slices, two plum tomatoes into quarter inch slices, and 10 black pitted olives cut in half, and I set them aside.  I then put about .75 inch of water in the plastic microwave proof pot, and I put in about 4 ounces of fresh spinach and the sliced mushrooms, and I put the lid on, and I put it the microwave oven to have ready to cook.  I then put two bagel halves in the toaster to have ready to cook.  I then set out and sliced into 1/4 inch slices one third of a 8 ounce package of Philadelphia 1/3 less fat cream cheese.  I then put two tablespoons of olive oil and three pads of margarine in my omelet pan.  I then broke three extra large eggs in a metal mixing bowl, and I added two tablespoons of milk and  a tablespoon of grated parmesan cheese.  I whisked the egg mixture together until it was bubbly.  I then turn on the electric heat on the omelet pan to medium high.  I turned on the vegetable cycle of the General Electric microwave oven to heat the spinach and mushrooms.  I ran this cycle twice, and once they were heated I drained the water out with a wire strainer.  I started the bagel halves toasting on the inside half only with my Rowenta toaster that will toast on only one side feature.  Once the omelet pan fat began to bubble, I added the egg mixture, and I let it cook until it was hard enough to flip over to the other side, and then I let it cook briefly to harden up the reverse side.   I put it on a  microwave proof dinner plate partially cooked unfolded flat on the plate, and I spread the four pieces of mozzarella cheese on top of it and then the Philadelphia 1/3 less fat cheese in the other open spaces, and then the sliced plum tomatoes and then the heated spinach and mushroom mixture around the omelet and then the 20 halves of sliced black olives, and I covered it all with a microwave proof plate lid, and I heated it on the reheat cycle of General Electric Microwave oven for about half of the reheat cycle or about three minutes until the cheese began to melt.  I then sprinkled a couple of tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese on top of the open face omelet, and I also put a little bit of olive oil on the toasted bagel halves.  I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  It was quite enjoyable.  I then washed the dishes, and I do not wash the omelet pan, but I wipe it clean with a paper towel to keep it seasoned.  I will now install the new dishwashing scrup and soap holder.  I will then set up the Lexmark X1185 printer, copier, scanner, and fax machine, and install its software.  It came with a USB cable, but I already have a long one attached to the computer and available on the dining table to the left of the left monitor where I will place the Lexmark machine.  I will then fill out the $10 Lexmark rebate information.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/03/05 Saturday 6:05 P.M.:  The Army Navy game is over, and I think the final score was Navy 42 and Army 23.  For the last two minutes I had to take a dump.  I have not had time to watch a football game in a long time, and they do not seem to really last that long.  The serial number on the Lexmark X1185 printer, scanner, copier, and  fax is "29331950445".  I now will shut down the computer, and I will shower, and I will clean up.  I have to do some grocery shopping.  I have a $5 off $40 purchase coupon at the Stop and Shop  that is good through today.  I will install the Lexmark once I return.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/03/05 Saturday 5:25 P.M.:  Navy 42 Army 17.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/03/05 Saturday 5:15 P.M.:  Navy 41 Army 17.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/03/05 Saturday 5:05 P.M.:  After breakfast, I threw out some garbage.  I chatted with some neighbors.  It is now Navy 35 Army 10.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/03/05 Saturday 4:10 P.M.:  Navy 21 Army 10.  I will now eat my breakfast.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/03/05 Saturday 3:55 P.M.:  It is now Navy 14 Army 10.  It does not look like either side is very good on defence.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/03/05 Saturday 3:40 P.M.:  It is now Army 10 Navy 7.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/03/05 Saturday 3:30 P.M.:  I woke up at 2:30 P.M., FedEx delivered my order for Printer, Scanner Copier and Fax with Paper Pack - $10 Mail-In Rebate - HEN and with new customer discount code Home Shopping Network Coupon Codes for HSN.com, Home Shopping Network Coupons and Discounts - CouponCabin.com of "229901" for a $20 discount on a $60 plus purchase and with free shipping , it cost me $49.80 plus there is a $10 mail in rebate, so it will eventually cost me $39.80 has shipping, and I checked the mail, and this order for www.ezinkjets.com item  Lexmark (2) 10N0016 Black & (1) 10N0026 Color for $56.85 less 40% discount code "FALL40" that ends soon probably at the end of this month for $22.74 off for $34.11 total arrived in the mail.  I did a communications check, and apparently major military action has broken out in the United States of America, and on the most liberal television network C.B.S., the military has taken over, and they are fighting it out in Philadelphia at the www.army.mil and the www.navy.mil game, and currently Army is leading 3 to 0.  However, recently Navy has been winning the game.  It seems more money and manpower in the United States Military intelligence is spent on researching the Army Navy game that most people realize.  I normally do not watch sporting events, because I am busy working all the time, but I recall I went to the Army Navy game the weekend after President Kennedy was shot, and it was a most enjoyable event, but we were not too important as far as the local people were concerned, so we only had seats behind the west side goal posts, and I figured there were a lot more important people with seats on the 50 yard line.  I will install the Lexmark X1185 printer, scanner, copier, and fax after breakfast.  I will now have breakfast of of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I already have made my bed.  I still have to fill out the $10 rebate on the Lexmark printer.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/03/05 Saturday 8:20 A.M.:  CRN | Microsoft, Vista | Vista Test Code To Be Feature-Complete By Year's End .  I have suspected something for a long time, and I now have proof.  I called Metropolitan Police Service - Homepage at If you suspect it, report it - Metropolitan Police Service 44-0800-789-321, and I gave them the specific information.  I went through my email earlier, and I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Specifically, I have suspected somebody was entering my apartment, when I was not here.  I heard a car come into the parking lot late last night before last with a bad muffler, and I saw the same person today with the same car with a bad muffler, and the person is a shampoo chemist that use to regularly use the Greenwich Library, and he reappeared in this area, and he has served jail time for criminal activity.  I also observed him late at night with another individual whom observes people downtown, so they can track their movement for criminal activity later on when they are not around.  Since I have witnesses whom are afraid to report on their activity, it would seem that the local mafia has my neighbors intimidated.  That is about all that I can report.  If it were my decision, I would cut off the electricity, communications, and water to both the Italian and the Russian embassies in London.  Most sincerely, Michael Louis Scott.  I also ate a piece of apple pie with three large double tablespoons of Stop and Shop frozen dairy topping.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/03/05 Saturday 3:45 A.M.:  What is interesting about Nelson Rockefeller sleeping outside on skid row in Las Angeles, California as reported on our New York, New York or New Amsterdam media is that I have kept track of him most of my life, since he once was my father's boss.  Like a lot of famous people whom run out of money and are left behind by the fast crowd, Nelson as I am allowed to call him or as we here in the North American headquarters of the International Red Cross call him formally Dr. Rockefeller, since he is the head of the International Red Cross has an unusual karma coming from the Rockefeller family descended from Charlemagne.  It seems with Nelson where ever he ends up running out of money and finally camping out because he knows how to do that, since he was in the United State Army with Henry Kissinger, he has this uncanny ability to hit up on hard times and run out of money, and usually where he ends up sleeping is on top of a new discovery of oil.  Thus more than likely there is a new discovery of oil underneath skid row in Las Angeles, California, or one of those grape groves that the Scott family does not pay much attention to being a mostly cold weather group of people.  The Scotts seemed to have acquired a lot of property in the Americas having been one of those families that arrived here early from Europe.  However, even though he probably is sleeping on a new discovery of oil, with the way Californians consume oil, it probably will not last very long.  Words of wisdom from Ahab the Arab.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/03/05 Saturday 2:25 A.M.:  After the last message, I ate a piece of pumpkin pie with three heaping tablespoons of Stop and Shop frozen dairy topping.  I then chatted with two relatives.  I did my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I threw out the garbage.  It is a bit cool and blustery outside, and it sort of feels like a winter night, so I guess colder weather has finally arrived in this area.  Traditionally amongst the Dutch people of New Amsterdam, the motto is "Cleanliness is next to Godliness."  There is also the tradition amongst the heartier New Amsterdam residents of the "Nightly Nightwatch" to make sure nothing happens while most of the population is asleep.  Amongst the Norwegian community whom also arrived first from Northern Europe with the Dutch and the Scotch, there was also a similar tradition called the "Freezing Norwegian Patrol", where the local colder weather people would try to keep an eye out for freezing travelers and stranded citizens.  Obviously the Norwegian and the Scottish communities know each other along with the Dutch.  Since the earliest Northern European settlers were arriving in a New World with out any modern conveniences at the time, they tend to be heartier country people whom took their religious freedom very seriously, since the European churches and the establishment of Europe tended to be very severe towards transgressors to their traditions, and gradually we became Americans with a larger population that already existed here along with the southern Europeans whom traveled here into the southern Americas, and other populations from other parts of the world.  Basically after I did my chores, I ate a toasted bagel with olive oil and 1/3 less fat Philadelphia cream cheese.  I also put $5 on my MacGray laundry card.  I am tired, but I will try to do some regular computer work such as checking my email.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/02/05 Friday 7:50 P.M.:  I have the Intel Create and Share software installed on both computers.  It works just fine.  One has to have the Intel web cam installed on the computer for the software to install, but once it is installed one can switch back to another web cam.  I thus still have the Creative Vibra web cam installed on the primary computer, and the Intel web cam installed on the Northgate Syntax backup computer.  Besides the Intel Create and Share software, it has the Intel Video phone, and it also came with iVistaSE which is suppose to let one view the web cam from another computer, but it does not seem to work, so perhaps that feature is just a demo.  Still it is all working.  After installing the Intel Create and Share software, I ran Norton WinDoctor 2003, and it had to fix 84 ActiveX problems and a few other problems, but still it all works just fine. I will now shut down both computers after running Adaware SE, and I will do my house cleaning and watering the plants.  I will do my vacuum cleaning first, so I do not disturb my neighbors later on in the house cleaning process.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/02/05 Friday 5:50 P.M.:  I was awaked at 1:30 P.M. when I got a bothersome telephone call while I was asleep.  I collected my mail.  I next went downtown, and I went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street.  I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Benedict Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  It seems busy with all the people downtown whom no longer bother to work on Fridays anymore.  I guess once people get rich, they do not need to work on Fridays, and they just plan their weekends.  I then returned home.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  I received the Intel Create and Share Software Shop Intel(SM) - Intel® Create & Share® Software Upgrade CD  for $5.95 and .36 tax for $6.31 total, which will upgrade my software that came with the Intel web cam that I bought at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop for $5.  The software upgrade lets it work with Windows XP.  One needs the original software to upgrade it.  It has arrived, and the UPS tracking number was UPS Package Tracking Intel Create and Share Software CD upgrade shipment to Mike Scott  .  I will now install it on the primary and the Northgate backup computers.  I will then do my house cleaning and watering the plants.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/02/05 Friday 5:10 A.M.:  I did a telephone check with the British Embassy in Washington D.C., and they can no longer afford to have anyone answer the telephone there at night anymore.  They just leave some 900 toll numbers that one can call for information, and they suggest that people look at their web site.  I guess we might as well do the same thing with the United States Embassy in London, Scotland.  I called up the Casa Marina in Key West, Florida, and they have a tired fellow there from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania answering the telephone at night.  He knows English, and he told me most of the people in Key West, Florida speak Spanish.  I figured the way Nelson Rockefeller probably ended up sleeping on skid row in Las Angeles, California is that he is very smart and experienced as a Red Cross volunteer, and he probably knows not even an invading force will bother with that group.  Of course just because it looks like Nelson Rockefeller does not mean it actually is him.  Of course Nelson did speak Spanish, and he was not the oldest of the brothers, so maybe one of his older brothers cracked down on his free spending lifestyle.  Of course Nelson always seemed very practical to me, so maybe he took a bit part day job as an actor in one of those Hollywood situation programs, and they have turned it into news to keep people from trying to enjoy their warmer lifestyles.  I have an old social register, and I could call up one of their listed telephone numbers to see if it were true.  However, I doubt if they would tell the truth.  Maybe he has Parkinson's Syndrome or Alzheimer's, and his care givers finally ditched him when the money ran out.  Obviously, I could not do anything to help him out anyway.  More than likely from what I can see on television broadcasting the American Nazi party thinks they have taken over America by influencing television broadcasting, and from what I can tell, it is more like the Wizard of Oz.  When you get to Oz, it is just a bunch of dancing munchkins trying to figure out whom the wizard is.  Speaking of munchkins, I still have some year old Jolly Green Giant vegetables in my bookcase pantry.  It is my personal viewpoint that canned food can last up to two years.  I also have five year old hurricane water that I have saved.   I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I ate 14 Ritz crackers with 1.25 inch by 1.25 inch by 1/8th inch slices of Stop and Shop Vermont extra sharp cheese on them.  I once read that John Davidson Rockefeller's father was buried in Minnesota in an unmarked grave.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/02/05 Friday 2:30 A.M.:  A word of diplomatic warning as it concerns an inquiry at a public location at the Bank of New York lobby by the professional security guard on duty there today.  Since I arrived at the same time a delivery was being made by an armor car, the bank security guard thought I was part of the armor car detail.  Unfortunately I am not, although I have seen such armor cars many times before.  In the inquiry in public I was asked where I carry my gun.  I tried to explain that I do not carry a gun while I am out in public, but there are probably a great many people around the world whom might look like me that might carry fire arms.  Also I explained that I simply have walked around a lot most of my life.  I also explained that I did not feel the need to carry a gun, since we are suppose to have good protection here, and if the United States of America were being invaded, we are still suppose to have some sort of nuclear umbrella which is suppose to protect us from invasion.  I explained a bit about what I know about the nuclear umbrella from reading public information and not classified information.  During World War II from 1943 to 1945, it took 2.5 million people to build two Atomic bombs costing hundreds of billions of dollars.  Besides the research and development on the two Atomic bombs, there were the expenses of finding and mining the uranium, and in producing Plutonium, there was the expense of major amounts of electricity that in one region of the country that I knew about required the building of over 20 hydroelectric dams to produce the electricity.  Also the tremendous amount of production and research and development required a lot of railroad transportation build up.  It was therefore a major expenditure when one looks at the real cost.  Also I explained there is a scale replica of one of the two first  Atomic bombs to be dropped at the United States Military Academy at West Point www.usma.edu , and I explained that they were called Little Boy and Fat Boy.  Judging from the one that I saw at West Point, it is Fat Boy.  I do no know much about the modern nuclear industry as far as the nuclear part of it, I just know it requires a lot of cement and steel.  I explained that since we have some sort of nuclear or hydrogen umbrella in this country, I felt relatively safe in moving around in the general public, and since I am not a kidnap target and since I usually carry less than $20 cash and simply because I am poor and do not have much valuable property, but I do have well organize property, I am not a mugging or theft victim.  Basically my apartment looks like a middle class man's library, which is hard to create that illusion on a very poor man's budget, particularly since I smoke cigarettes which are expensive even from www.ordersmokesdirect.com .  Thus from what I can tell, and I did not explain, I never have carried firearms, and the only gun that I ever purchased was a $20 Japanese shotgun that I bought at the Sears and Roebuck store in Libertyville, Illinois back around 1969.  I registered it with the state of Illinois firearms department.  Since I had friends on the Farm http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/mike-scott-the-farm-illinois-1970.jpg whom like practicing shooting trap, I bought the shotgun.  However, about the third time I fired it, it came apart in several different pieces, so I returned it to Sears, and I got my money back.  It did not explode in my face, it simply fell apart in about a half dozen different pieces after I fired at a clay disk.  I did practice for two month long camp sessions at Lookout Mountain Camp around 1957 and 1958 on the Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama border shooting 22 rifles, and I was not very good at it, and I was not interested in the sport, and I actually was more interested in making homemade bows out of lemon wood, all of which seem to break.   However, to get certain badges at camp, one had to qualify in certain areas, and since I was behind in getting the number of arrow points to meet the camp requirements, one afternoon when it was quiet, and nobody was using the firing range, I was able to meet my entire month's requirement on the firing range in a few hours and thus I got the badges and certificates from some group like the National Rifle Association which I still have today.  However being primarily a reader and doing a lot of close work most of my life, I probably could not hit the back side of a barn.  However, I can prove it was me, since I know one thing about the Lookout Mountain firing range that somebody in this area would not.  The rifle practices were pretty much standard procedures for the time.  However, the young campers were always amused there was a steel water tank behind the firing range, but we never saw it.  Since when I was young, and I had good hearing,  one would have to really miss the target at about a 45 degree angle to his the water tank, I use to get a kick about shooting a little bit higher, and it made a much different sound and from that sound of the ricochet on the steel water tank, I could tell how much water was left in the tank.  Even though we were on a river, on long hot dry Alabama summers in the mountains, there was frequently a bit of drought, and the lower the water in the tank, it would begin to show, we might be drinking and using the River water instead of spring water.   I think since I fell behind in my marksmanship attendance, I had to fire two hundred 22 rifle rounds at 20 rounds per target at about 50 yards, and at that distance, I obviously hit the target close to the center, and I was able to prove certain misses were when the rifle shot entered the same holes, and that I did not completely miss the target.  I also recall in 20 rounds, about one or two would be in the bulls eye the size of a silver dollar and about 8 in the next inner circle, and about 8 in the next inner circle and about 2 other randomly placed on the target.   Thus at that time since I was not experienced with a rifle, I did not like being encouraged to practice with it, but I wanted to get my badges.  I was told by a friend on the farm when we practiced shooting trap, and one roommate showed up with a 22 rifle since that was all that he could afford that a 22 rifle shot can carry two miles, but I do not think it is too accurate at that distance.  That is really all I know about guns, although Connecticut is famous for gun manufacturing in the old days.  I think I also use to try to repack my father's shotgun shells to save him money, but he was discouraged from using them.  To prove it is me in Greenwich, Connecticut, our first house in Greenwich, Connecticut on Baldwin Farms North had a widow's walk and during the period I was building  a dog house for our German Sheppard Tanya, which we were going to use for a guard dog in Mexico City when we moved there, but instead we moved to New Canaan, Connecticut.  While in the basement that summer, I test fired one of my father's shot guns, by removing all, but a few of the lead pellets, and when I fired it, it blew a few small holes in the air conditioning duct work in the basement at the west of the basement by the crawl space near the basement outside door.  I designed the homemade dog house, so it would come apart in two sections, so it could be carried out of the basement through the larger outside basement door.   Since we did not have very good carpentry tools at the house, I was using a Sears drill with a orbiter sander disk, and it spun around, and it cut me on the right wrist leaving a scar, and my parents took me to the Greenwich Hospital, and I recall Doctor Gerster gave me about nine stitches to fix it up.  Thus when all my friends thought we were moving to Mexico City instead we moved to New Canaan, Connecticut and then about a year and a half later we moved back to Baldwin Farms South in the Colonial style house, which did not have air conditioning, and which I helped build.  At the age of 16 years old, I was framing that house at about 125 pounds, and I was carrying two 4 foot by 8 foot sheets of 3/4 inch plywood with a claw hammer, and I would hoist one sheet at a time to the upper level, by hitting the sheet of plywood with claw hammer and dragging it up one story at a time.  I was paid $5 an hour.  Also most of the construction job, we had a carpenter's union representative picket up, since we were non union.  Of course union truckers would not cross the picket line, so we would frequently take off on a break looking like we had left for the day like we were drunk, and once the carpenter union representative took off, the trucks would mysteriously appear.   CIO

Note: <888> 12/02/05 Friday 12:55 A.M.:  For some reason on the Toshiba laptop, I had to reinstall the Netgear Wireless USB device software again, which I did.  I had already installed it before.  Perhaps the installation of the 4 port USB device caused it not to be recognized.  I set it up for the Netgear software to monitor the wireless network.  I will now restart the Toshiba laptop and turn off the AT&T wireless router, and I will install a software upgrade with the LAN connection on the Toshiba laptop.  The Toshiba laptop with my AT&T wireless router connected to the Optimum Online Motorola cable modem through the Siemens router is getting 1,128.3 kbps bandwidth according to CNET Bandwidth Meter Speed Test - Bandwidth Test set at 914 area code since I am 100 feet away from the 914 area code in Westchester County, New York with Optimum Online as the Cable modem provider.  However, I am not that familiar with wireless, so I still prefer to do my software upgrades with LAN, since one bad CRC which one might get with wireless could cause software to malfunction.  I know www.nasa.gov does wireless software upgrades to space, but they have better equipment and software technology if you get my drift.  Also around 9 P.M., I ate the last piece of pumpkin pie with three double tablespoons of the Stop and Shop frozen dairy like topping.  I have not looked at the container to see if it is dairy or vegetable oil, but it tastes like dairy.  I happened to notice on the Thanksgiving Day broadcast on the Fox or CNN network as I recall or the day after or recently, there was a program about all of the homeless people being dumped at the skid row area in Las Angeles, California near one of their church missions.  It showed one older distinguished looking gentleman sleeping on the street that looked like Nelson Rockefeller, and even if he has become a wino or just simply down and out with that look, there is always employment around for somebody with that look this time of year working as a Santa Claus for the Salvation Army in front of Rockefeller Center.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/02/05 Friday 12:05 A.M.:  Now that I have done some house keeping improvements, I relaxed a bit, and I thought about other activities I need to do on the computers.  I turned on the AT&T wireless router, and I unplugged the LAN cable from my Toshiba laptop computer, and I installed the Netgear USB wireless adaptor, which I have already set up, and I am now starting up the Toshiba laptop to see if it works alright with the wireless setup.  I should know in a few minutes, since it is an older 350 or450 MHz Toshiba with 256 megs of memory, so it takes a while to start up.  Although the Netgear wireless USB adaptor is USB 2.0 the Toshiba laptop is only USB 1.0.  The Toshiba laptop only has one USB port, so I have a four port USB adaptor plugged into it.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/01/05 Thursday 11:05 P.M.:  And here it is on sale at the www.thecoop.com for $355 for coop members down from $395  Classic Harvard Chair on sale for $355 for coop member MIT & Harvard Coop - merchandise store - insignia, clothing, gifts, chairs, posters, frames, books, furniture, t-shirts cloth clothes gift chair poster book apparel t-shirt sloan mit harvard photo  plus $55 shipping.  Thus new it would cost to have shipped if one were not a Coop member $450, so I got it for 90% off at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, since in Yale country Harvard is not very popular, and there are probably some Harvard people around here whom would agree.  Thus I think I found a good practical chair for my kitchen, and since I also studied Latin, I know that Veritas means "Truth", and since I have seen the emblem of Harvard before I recognized it right off.  Also there is nowhere on the chair that it actually says Harvard, but on the plastic label on the bottom that somebody attached at some other time.  However, I can not afford red or should I say crimson cushion.   Anyway, I think it will support my current weight of 200 pounds.  However, I am not going to apply for the freshman class at Harvard at age 55, and I can not afford to move anyway.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/01/05 Thursday 10:45 P.M.:  When I went to Lake Forest College www.lfc.edu Debbie Windsor from Marblehead, Massachusetts was one of my sister's classmates at Lake Forest College, one of my roommates at Lake Forest College Tim McMurray dated her.  Also I recall she had a brother or a cousin Johnny Windsor, I recall meeting up in Nantucket around 1968, and I was told he died driving off a cliff in Colorado while he was going to Colorado College.  Back in Nantucket in the summer of 1977, while I was staying at Mrs. Florence Frances' guest house at 31 India Street for $5 a night in Nantucket as a long term seasonal resident usually from April to December, a mother and a son from Westport, Connecticut showed up, and the mother left her son for the summer at Flossie's or as the kids called it "Flossie's Flop House".  While dropping off her son there, the mother noticed that in Flossie's entrance hall, she had a matching pair of two old Windsor chairs, and as I recall, she paid $5,000 apiece to buy both of them or $10,000.  Flossie did not seem very upset at having lost such valuable family heirlooms, as if there were more of them around some place else.   Well, my point is back in the period I was a photographer for Polaroid around Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1968 to 1971 with other time at Polaroid programming Cobal and working as a construction worker on summer and winter holiday jobs, I would frequently go to the Harvard Coop in Harvard Square.   As I recall the new version of the same chair in that period cost about $200.  Also I recall once a piece of furniture is 50 years old, it can be considered an antique, so therefore in another four years, the chair will be an antique Windsor chair.  Of course for it to be a valuable antique Windsor chair, it has to over a 100 years old made in England not Massachusetts.  Thus I still feel like the Duke of Windsor's house boy.  Thus certain blue blood social register types or probably busy trying to figure out whom in the area might be initials "MCP".  Well in this area, it might be somebody like "Marshall Chatsworth Putnam" .  However, since I know a bit of French, and since I have visited Canada number of times, I think MCP stands for "Militaire Canadia Polica" which loosely translated into English stands for "Canadian Military Police".  If I am mistaken you might check with Sergeant Preston of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but more than likely he his out hunting moose to feed his huskies.   I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/01/05 Thursday 8:55 P.M.:  I went out after the last message.  I went by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a 5 ounce bag of Arnold regular cut seasoned croutons for $1.39 and a six bagel package of New York everything bagels for $1.85 for $3.24 total.  I then went by the Valley Road post office, and I mailed a letter.  I bought 20 Madonna and Child  and 20 Santa Claus and Raindeer stamps for 40 stamps total at .37 apiece for $14.80 total. It was not very busy yet.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Service Exxon station next to the Greenwich Library, and I bought $14.75 of premium unleaded gasoline at  $2.699 a gallon for 81.3 miles total driving for the last 20 days at 14.1 miles per gallon usage averaging driving 12 miles per hour.  I next checked all four of my tires for 32 pounds per square inch inflated pressure.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York.  The younger security guard seemed to be interested in the military, and I told him some people join up for a six pack of beer.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I bought a 1959 black hard wood and natural and gold Nichols and Stone Company Nichols and Stone of Gardner, Massachusetts, "The House of Windsor Chairs" model #66 - SDC Black "Veritas" emblem Harvard University chair, with a blue and white plastic label on the bottom saying "Harvard Chair to Kimball Prince from MCP New in 1959" for $45, similar to the black and cherry stained arms model screened in on this page Nichols & Stone COLLEGE SEALS, but like this Classic Chair Harvard The History of The Chair.   One can buy a similar chair here today Everything Harvard - The Classic Chair by FW Lombard .  The contemporary Harvard chair is $395 Chair Reviews Contemporary Harvard Chair , so the classic Harvard Chair would probably be around $500, since it has more workmanship.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by Putnam Trust Bank of New York on Mason Street again.  I mentioned to the younger security guard that I had been walking around banks for most of my life.  I then sat out briefly downtown, and it was not too busy.  I then drove by the waterfront, and it was not too busy.  I then went back by the Arnold Bread outlet, and I bought a Entenmann's 28 ounce apple pie for $2, a 14 ounce bag of Arnold sag and onion stuffing for $2.79, and three 5 ounce bags of Arnold regular cut seasoned croutons for $1.39 each for $8.96 total.  I then returned home, and I carried up my purchases.  I took the old grey swivel high back computer chair out of the kitchen, which was a bit heavy to lift out, but I removed it since it blocks the General Electric stove.   I put the new Harvard chair in its location.  I put a yellow and blue cushion on it, and then I put a dark Navy blue cushion on that I took off the computer desk chair in the bedroom.  I put the pink plum cushion from the swivel chair that was in the kitchen, and I put it on the computer desk chair in the bedroom.  I moved around a couple of the cushions on the backs of the chairs in the bedroom.  I took the candy and popcorn off of the floor location in the kitchen, so there is nothing on the floor underneath the chair in the kitchen, and I put the candy and popcorn back in the left living room closet between the set of old regular style Volvo wheels which have less tread on them than my high performance tires on my Volvo.  I then wheeled the grey swivel chair downstairs, and I used it to reset the ground fault interrupter on the Holiday Christmas lights outside the north wing of the building. I then took it over to the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop, and I donated it to them.  They said they might be able to use it as shop property.  It originally came from the dumpster area at the Greenwich Train station lower parking lot, and it was covered with plaster dust left over from the building renovation, and I cleaned it up, and it looked and was quite serviceable, but there is no room for it in my apartment.    I then returned home.  The Harvard chair fits in well in the kitchen, and if one moves the Rubbermaid garbage can, one can now easily move the Harvard chair to the Rubbermaid garbage can location, so one can have easy access to the General Electric stove oven and the cabinet and drawer to its left and the bookcase pantry on the other side of the Harvard chair.  Thus I have done a minor improvement to the apartment.  Each month I try to do a minor improvement to both the apartment and my computer setup.   Pictures follow 

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.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/01/05 Thursday 11:55 A.M.:  I opened a 19 ounce can of Hormel steakhouse beef stew, and I put it in a microwave proof plastic pot with lid, and I reheated it on the reheat cycle of the General Electric microwave oven, and I put it in a bowl, and I ate it with a glass of 1/3rd iced tea, 1/3rd orange juice, and 1/3 cold filtered water.  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  I went downstairs to check my mail, but it is not here yet.  I washed the dishes, and I made my bed.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/01/05 Thursday 10:45 A.M.:  I woke up at 9:30 A.M..  I paid my Cablevision Digital television www.cablevision.com bill online, and I paid my Connecticut Light and Power www.cl-p.com bill online.  I am making up a fresh batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  My order for Printer, Scanner Copier and Fax with Paper Pack - $10 Mail-In Rebate - HSN and with new customer discount code Home Shopping Network Coupon Codes for HSN.com, Home Shopping Network Coupons and Discounts - CouponCabin.com of "229901" for a $20 discount on a $60 plus purchase and with free shipping , it cost me $49.80 plus there is a $10 mail in rebate, so it will eventually cost me $39.80 has shipping, but tracking is not available.  The order for www.ezinkjets.com item  Lexmark (2) 10N0016 Black & (1) 10N0026 Color for $56.85 less 40% discount code "FALL40" that ends soon probably at the end of this month for $22.74 off for $34.11 total has shipped.  This order is due tomorrow Intel Create and Share Software Shop Intel(SM) - Intel® Create & Share® Software Upgrade CD  for $5.95 and .36 tax for $6.31 total, which will upgrade my software that came with the Intel web cam that I bought at the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop for $5.  The software upgrade lets it work with Windows XP.  One needs the original software to upgrade it.  It has shipped, and the UPS tracking number is UPS Package Tracking Intel Create and Share Software CD upgrade shipment to Mike Scott .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/01/05 Thursday 2:10 A.M.:  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go back to bed.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/01/05 Thursday 1:55 A.M.:  I woke up at 6 P.M..  I started installing Vista beta 1 version 5231 on the extra partition on my primary computer.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I chatted with two relatives.  When I went to configured the Vista beta, it seemed like one of my XP drivers was causing a memory leak since in the Task Manager, it indicated CPU usage of 100%.  I thus reinstalled the beta again.  However, with no extra XP drivers installed, I had the same problem.  It might be unique to my computer configuration.   If I boot Vista beta 1 version 5231 with the router turned off, it boots up the network, and most of the time its seems work online once I then turn on the router after booting up.  I went ahead and did a minor configuration of Vista beta 1 version 5231.  A couple of times, when I booted with the router turned off, the Task Manager did show 100% CPU usage.  However, most of the time if I boot with the Siemens router turned off, the Vista beta 1 version 5231 does seem to work all right and go online once I turn on the router.  A lot of the smaller programs that I was able to install on the earlier beta would not install, since the are XP programs.  I picked up my mail downstairs earlier.  I just microwaved a 16 ounce Marie Callender turkey pot pie, which I will eat shortly with a glass of iced tea.  CIO