Note: <888> 12/31/10 Friday 6:40 P.M.  I ate a 18 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder with a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch and the last piece of pumpkin pie with the last of the Cool Whip lite.  I chatted with a friend.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I took down the six 2010 calendars in the apartment.  I put the www.hourofpower.org and the George H.W. Bush Foundation 2011 calendars on the hallway sweater closet, and I put the IAVECI 2011 volcano calendar on the right side of the right living room closet.

Mostly cloudy tomorrow and 48 to 39 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/31/10 Friday 4:40 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by CVS, and I used the bathroom.  I bought two boxes 12 Hallmark Christmas cards for half price for $6.99 each box and .84 tax for $14.82 total.  They have other boxes of Christmas cards in the front center area of the store for half price, but the supply is limited.  I finished my walk.  I noticed my Audi passenger side front door had about a 10 inch long key scratch on it down to the metal.  It was not there, when I cleaned the snow off the car on Monday, so it either happened in my apartment parking lot during the last few days, when I did not go out or when I was parked downtown at the Board of Education Parking lot by the veterans monument.  There happens to be a police camera on that location, so if the police were interested they could check out the videotape on that location.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a four pack of day old muffins for $2, a 8 pack of Stop and Shop hot dog rolls for $1.69, a six ounce Dannon plain yogurt for 50 cents, a 59 ounce container of Florida Natural orange juice for $3, a six pack of Kaiser rolls for $2.49, and fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.59 for $11.27 total.  I noticed that the beef tenderloin that I bought for $9.99 a pound on Christmas eve is now $16.99 a pound.  I then stopped by briefly at the Chase Bank at the Stop and Shop plaza.  I then went by Val's liquor to check prices.  They do not have Rene Junot white table wine, but the red version is $11.99.  The last time I bought some at the Var Max liquor pantry in Port Chester, New York about five years ago, it was $4.99, so liquor has gone up in price.  Liter bottles of Mount Gay eclipse rum are $29.99, so it has almost doubled in price in a couple of years.  I then went by the Courtesy Mobil gasoline station at 623 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $7 of self service premium gasoline for $3.549 a gallon for 1.972 gallons for 20.5 miles driving since Monday December 20, 2010 at odometer reading of 68168 miles for 10.396 miles per gallon driving in mostly local traffic.  I cleaned the outside windows on the Audi.  I then returned home.  The order from www.vistaprint.com that I ordered 500 updated calling cards for $7.74 and $6.15 slow 21 day shipping for $13.89 total arrived.  I picked up the mail.  I then went out to the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue, and while waiting to leave, I chatted with somebody with an Australian dog.  The individual also had major key scratch marks on their Mercedes, so it must be a problem in this area.  I then went by the Wachovia Bank, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then returned home.  I just chatted with a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/31/10 Friday 9:10 A.M.  I am getting a bit of cabin fever.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer.  I will then shower and clean up.  I will then go downtown to see if any of the big bucks billionaires are giving away wooden nickels to the Indians.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/31/10 Friday 8:50 A.M.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/31/10 Friday 8:25 A.M.  For my Brother MFC-8840D all purpose machine, I ordered Newegg.com - Rosewill RTCA-TN580 Replacement for Brother TN580, TN530, TN540, TN550, TN560, TN570 Black Toner Cartridge for $19.99 with free shipping which according to Toner for Brother MFC-8840D should work as a spare replacement cartridge.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/31/10 Friday 7:35 A.M.  I woke up at 5:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  There is not much happening in the snow covered tundra of Greenwich, Connecticut.  I guess we have to stay stranded in our homes, until a relief party shows up.  It supposedly is clear out, but with all of the local youth out of school, the town is letting them run the town, while the more senior adults relax in comfort in their snow covered homes.  I still have enough food, until my new food stamp allocation becomes active on January 3, 2011.  I am out of bananas, and I will not need more orange juice for punch for a few days.  I am comfortable at home, but there is a lack of original programming on television.  Maybe they should put "Sargent Preston and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police" back on television.  I am normally the one whom cleans the snow off the benches downtown, but I suppose a more vigorous young person could try doing it with an automobile snow brush.  I am still debating whether I should venture out and risk the chance of losing my parking place, or if I should just stay home, and let the local village idiots keep an eye on downtown Greenwich Avenue.  It is nice being warm and comfortable at home, instead of walking in the cold downtown in the snowy landscape.  I guess most of the younger people are gathering at Starbucks to watch the world go by.  In the major Obama recession, there is no reason to take any chance that might be costly to one's budget.  One would think that now that the Republicans have taken over the House of Representatives, they could come up with some money for some experienced republicans to do something besides sit at home.  Without extra money in the winter, there is no point venturing too far away from home.  Obviously since the republican party knows whom I am, they could come up with some money after all of my years of volunteering.  Thus from my view point, they are just another group of gypsies trying to shake down the establishment in this town.  The republicans obviously pay a lot of money in taxes in this town, and we get very little back in terms of funding and services from the government.  I have very good communications, but nobody communicates.  My viewpoint is that the people with funding should get out there and do more.  Since I have a functional home office, I am doing the best based on my budget, and not the budget of the local www.chase.com bank which seems to think they control the town.  Frequently when the Rockefellers and their associates get too big for their britches, I have to remind them of the Sherman Anti Trust Act, which I also know something about.  CIO     

Note: <888> 12/30/10 Thursday 5:35 P.M.  I ate a four day old muffin with some watered down punch.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will take a nap for a while.  CIO   

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Note: <888> 12/30/10 Thursday 3:15 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I helped get a neighbor's son's car unstuck by rocking it out of the snow enclosed parking space.  I picked up the mail.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/30/10 Thursday 2:35 P.M.  I showered, and I cleaned up.

The order with tracking number of "420068309101969010386921551646" at www.usps.com for the order for Gigabyte GA-7VT600P-RZ Motherboard Socket A 462 SATA - eBay (item 110626681789 end time Dec-26-10 19:12:20 PST) for $15.51 and $14.70 shipping for $30.21 total arrived.  I put it in the lower Gigabyte motherboard box on the right side of the left living room closet shelf.

The order from Cell phone accessories, Mobile accessories - Motorola, Samsung, LG, Nokia, Nextel, Sony ericsson, Sanyo, Kyocera, Audiovox and Bluetooth I ordered Electronic Travel Charger For Nokia Cellular Phones (TC-1) - Nokia 5230 Nuron Chargers for $2.99 and Universal USB Car Charger Kit With 4 Phone Connectors - Sony Ericsson W380a Car Chargers for $5.99 and Outdoor Style Carrying Case For Nokia 2720 - Nokia 2720 Cases for $4.59 and Holster For Nokia 2720 - Nokia Belt Clip / Holster for $1.99 and LCD Protective Film For Cellular Phone (70mm x 110mm) - Dell Streak for $1.99 less 7% savings with coupon code "CELL7" for $1.19 discount for $16.95 subtotal and $4.99 shipping for $20.75 total arrived.  I put the parts by the Nokia cell phone on the dining table. However, I put the automobile power adapter on the middle shelf of the bookcase at the kitchen entrance.

The order for Epson T069120 Remanufactured Black Inkjet Cartridge for $7.25 with free shipping arrived.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/30/10 Thursday 1:40 P.M.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with 1/4th of a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringles style sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.

I made up a fresh batch of punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/30/10 Thursday 12:25 P.M.  I chatted with a relative and a friend.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/30/10 Thursday 11:25 A.M.  I paid my bills for www.cablevision.com Digital Cable Television, Optimum Online Cable Modem, and Optimum Voice Long Distance, and my www.cl-p.com electricity bill, and my www.verizon.com local telephone bill.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/30/10 Thursday 11:00 A.M.  I woke up at 5:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 10:30 A.M..  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 5:25 P.M.  I checked the mail twice, and it did not arrive.

I chatted with a neighbor.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Partly cloudy and tomorrow and 36 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 3:55 P.M.  I was once offered a job to run a www.coke.com stand in Key West, but nobody down there had any money, so there was no point.  In the winter of 1978, Jimmy Eldert made about $2 a day running a yogurt stand.  It seems busier now Live Duval Street Web Cam in Key West, Florida :: Sloppy Joe's Bar :: , so there must a lot of snow birds are down there.  It sort of makes one wander, if there is anyone left back up north.  I can always call up the Canadian Emergency telephone number toll free or collect at 1-613-996-8885 and invite them down to visit here at the edge of the tropics in Greenwich, Connecticut.  A lot of Miami, Florida people go to the Florida Keys for the weekend also.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 3:20 P.M.  When I lived in the Florida Keys, they use to eat sea turtles, so maybe they should put the sea turtle in the National Zoo.

I checked the mail, and it is not here yet.

Basically, in the time I was down in the Florida Keys, there were very cold winters up north, so it was quite busy in the Florida Keys, but it would go down to the mid 40s degrees Fahrenheit at night, so without warm clothing living outside, it was a bit cold and uncomfortable.  I did come up with a www.army.mil poncho, but it was quite damp to sleep in.  Still I think one of the stray cats at the Case Marina might have been a baby cougar.  So few people spoke English down there, I spent most of my time speaking high school French to French Canadians.  The security officer at the Monroe County Library was from Chicago, Illinois, so he seemed to know I knew something in English.  Back in January 1977, when they started rebuilding the old Casa Marina hotel for the Marriott Corporation, there was a sign in front of it explaining the construction saying it was being financed by the Equitable Life Insurance Company from Chicago, Illinois.  There was always somebody from Missouri parked next to the Casa Marina in a black Mercedes Benz, so maybe he was one of Harry Truman's observers.  There is not much to do in Key West if one does not have a house except to walk back and forth from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean all day long and rest on both sides of the walk.  The Casa Marina side is a lot more peaceful.  It is much longer walk up Roosevelt Boulevard to the Monroe County beach all of the way up to the Key West International airport.  Although there are a lot of people at the beach, one has to wear flip flops when in the water, since it is not a sandy bottom but rough coral.  There are plenty of public rest rooms, showers, and water fountains, for the person without a home.  I originally tried sleep underneath the Parrish House at the Episcopal Church downtown, but when Jim Eldert arrived, he told me that would not do, so he had some friends with a trailer next to the rocket launchers at the Boca Chica Naval Base.  I always was nervous if they launched the rockets, the trailer would catch on fire.  I think back them Jim Eldert worked as a bus boy at the Pier House, and he taught Sunday School at the Baptist church, which was sort of strange since he was Roman Catholic, but I guess the Catholic Church down there was Spanish, so possibly Jim Eldert did not know Spanish.  He was a student visiting out of the University of New Hampshire, and all of his friends with him were against building the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant.  I basically was living off of peanut butter sandwiches and oranges and yogurt.  The Cubans seems to know that Jimmy's family had the house in Key Biscayne next to Richard Nixon.  However, I guess they were never far north enough to know that my family was once established in Pensacola, Florida, before we moved up north to Decatur, Alabama and then the Fairfield County area of Connecticut.  From what I know since Jimmy Eldert had www.cbs.com stationary with him, he must have also known somebody at C.B.S..  However, Jim Eldert was not my first friend in Key West.  When I left Lake Forest, Illinois in October 1972, I drove down to Florida with Hurley Haywood to Jacksonville, Florida, and we drove along with Rob Glore who had a craft shop in Key West across the street from the post office and his cousin Whitney from Minnesota.  However, I did not finally make it to Key West until Halloween in 1976, when I was living on the beach in Fort Lauderdale, I drove down to Key West with Brian Hibbs from Cheshire, Connecticut, and we went to a piano bar called Rotten Robby's.  The whole island was deserted and boarded up, and not much was happening.  Thus I did not return on my own to Key West, until after New Years in 1977, when my 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne blue four door sedan with South Carolina license plates was impounded by the Fort Lauderdale police for having too many parking tickets at the parking lot at the park by the Swimming Hall of Fame, so I did not have a car, and I think back then I took a bus down to Key West, and later on I would hitch hike back and forth from there to Fort Lauderdale a number of times.  I enjoyed the drive along the Florida Keys highway.  Around April 1977, I got my six months of unemployment checks from Daniel construction in Greenville, South Carolina, so I went back to Fort Lauderdale with Jim Eldert, and I got the car out of the impound lot, and we drove north to Disney in Orlando and then St. Augustine and then we stopped by Hurley Haywood's in Jacksonville, and then I gave Jimmy money to take an Eastern Airlines jet back to the University of New Hampshire, and I drove up North.  I stopped by Americus, Georgia, and I got about $500 of car repairs done on the Chevrolet, and then I stopped Plains, Georgia to visit the Presidential home town.  I then drove back up north.  I recall stopping in Greenwich at the family house, and then I went out to Nantucket.  I did not need the car anymore, so I gave it to the Nantucket Hospital Thrift shop along with a lot of my extra luggage.  I left Nantucket to visit Jimmy at the University of New Hampshire for the Seabrook demonstration.  I also hitchhiked up to Dartmouth College, and stayed at the Inn at Exeter, New Hampshire, and I recall also hitch hiking down to Williamsburg and Jamestown, Virginia, so by the time I got back to Nantucket, I was tired of traveling.  I worked jobs opening scallops, opening restaurants, and a dish washer at a number of places, until I landed a full time job as a pot scrubber at the Gordon Folger Hotel for the rest of the summer.  I recall they paid me $1.85 an hour back then.  I paid $5 a day to stay on a bed at Mrs. Frances' boarding house at 31 India Street.  The summer went by fast, because I was working all the time, and I recall I only saw Jimmy Eldert three times, and he was working at the India House three houses west of the boarding house.  India house had a green Volkswagen station wagon, so Jimmy spent a lot of time driving around the island from what I could tell.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 2:10 P.M.  Jimmy Carter helps release loggerhead sea turtle - StamfordAdvocate  CIO

Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 2:00 P.M.  I made and ate my breaded boneless breast of chicken dinner with my Christmas steamed vegetable mixture and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 12:30 P.M.  I chatted with a friend and a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 12:05 P.M.  Well up in www.nantucket.net after the Bicentennial Tall Ships on July 4, 1976 in New York Harbor where I saw Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip at Bloomingdale's department store the following day, later that summer the Sail Loft up on Straight Wharf on Nantucket was selling over 400 different types of beer from around the world for any of the sailors that might have shown up from New York Harbor.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 11:35 A.M.  Back in the old days when Greenwich, Connecticut was poor, and the polo players were throwing keg parties, some of the simpler people up on Round Hill Road whom could not afford to drive to Port Chester, New York where all of the beer barons made their money had an alternative solution.

I got a ten gallon stone crock from my Grandmother Boven's house in Holland, Michigan the last time I visited there around 1961.  I then was able to buy quart cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon Malt syrup for about $3 locally at the Greenwich Hardware store.  In the 10 gallon crock, I would add about 10 gallons of well water from Round Hill Road area where we lived, and ten pounds of sugar, and as I recall two packages of Fleishman's yeast, and mix it all together.  I would keep it in the basement where it was warmer near the furnace with its force air heating, so the house tended to smell like beer.  www.sears.com sold a hydrometer for beer making to measure the alcohol or possibly a comic book   vendor or Popular Mechanics magazine advertisement, and once it sank to the right level in the beer mixture, after about three days, One would use a round wooden float with a hole in it for a long rubber tube, and one would siphon the beer off into 12 ounce Canada Dry Ginger ale bottles, and one could buy a bottle cap machine and bottle caps from the Sears catalog for about $20 for the bottle cap machine and $2 for a hundred bottle caps.  Once the beer sat bottled at room temperature for about two weeks, the beer would be carbonated, and about a quarter inch of yeast would settle at the bottom of the beer bottles.  Once it was refrigerated, it was a very good beer, but one had to be careful not to let the yeast at the bottom of the beer bottle go into the glass, when one poured it.  I think legally one is allow to make one's own beer in the United States of America.  There might be some limit like 200 gallons per year per individual.  I can not recall.  It is the same with wine.  Since the beer was in Ginger ale bottles, and since it was illegal to drink beer at Tod's Point, my older sister use to sell it to her boy friends at the beach for a dollar a bottle.  Once a cat climbed through the basement window, and fell into the beer mixture to add a little flavor to it.  That is how the Scott family got into the Dutch beer business with a Dutch stone beer crock from Holland, Michigan.  Alas, we had to move out of town to the Boston area, where they tend to drink more beer.  While at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut my senior year, I recall making up a batch of either home brew beer of cider, and I recall selling it to the seniors leaving school on a school bus for Christmas vacation.  When the country became more prosperous, there was less of a demand for Pabst Blue Ribbon Malt syrup, so I do not think it is available anymore.

three packages of Fleishman's yeast back then was about 59 cents, but as I recall, one used a package for every five gallons, so that would be 40 cents.

10 pounds of sugar cost about $1.30

a quart of Blue Ribbon Malt syrup cost about $3

and the bottle caps were about 2 cents a piece.

Thus for 10 gallons of beer it cost about $4.70.

1280 ounces divided by 12 ounces is about 107 twelve ounce bottles.

works out to about 0.392 cents a bottle plus the 2 cent bottle cap or about 2.4 cents a bottle which must have been very profitable for my sister and her friends at the beach at a dollar a bottle.  I recall some of her friends came visiting around the house trying to figure out where it came from, and they chased me around the house, when I challenged them, and one chased me on top of the two story roof up to the widow's walk, and I was able to get back down because I was young, think and quick leaving the beer stalker stuck on the roof.  Thus at a very young age, I learned to be leery of my older sister's friends.

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Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 9:20 A.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 8:20 A.M.  My 3 P.M. appointment was cancelled for tomorrow.  I do not have another appointment until next Tuesday at 11 A.M..   Thus I do not have to go out any time soon.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 7:45 A.M.   The BBC News Radio says that we all should have a daily dose of yogurt.

I still have my two 5 cup yogurt machines, but it takes a bit of time to make it.

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.

I will now wash the breakfast dishes and make my bed.  I will then shower and clean up, which I have not done in two days.

Although the roads are relatively clear in this area, I can not go out for a walk downtown, since I would probably lose my limited parking space here.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 6:30 A.M.  I woke up at 5:45 A.M..  I ate two Clementines.

Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 1:15 A.M.  I am a bit tired, so I will now go back to bed.

Sunny today and 39 to 21 degrees Fahrenheit.

In the winter here, when we are low on funds without much to do, we are like Russian bears, and we tend to hibernate.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 12:50 A.M.  I could buy a spare processor here AMD Sempron 3000+ Socket A 462 CPU - FSB 333 Athlon XP - eBay (item 320565071199 end time Jan-17-11 21:04:02 PST) for my AMD XP Socket A systems, but since I have entire multiple backup systems, so I do not really need it.

I was outbid on the DFI KT600-AL Motherboard - eBay (item 220714173999 end time Dec-28-10 23:48:40 PST) over what I can afford, so somebody needs it more than I need it.  There are plenty of KT600 motherboards here KT600 items - Get great deals on items on eBay.com! , if I ever need another one.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/29/10 Wednesday 12:25 A.M.  I ate a Stouffer's 21 ounce meat and tomato lasagna with some grated parmesan and Romano on it and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/28/10 Tuesday 11:05 P.M.  I woke up at 8 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I went downtown, and I drove around the downtown area.  West Putnam Avenue is clear, but there are only about 1.5 lanes open in both directions.  They have all of the heavy equipment at the top of Greenwich Avenue for clearing off the snow off Greenwich Avenue.  However, on lower Greenwich Avenue with cars parked on both sides of the street outside the pubs there, there is only one narrow lane open for traffic, and it does not look like a fire truck or ambulance would be able to get through in an emergency situation.  Still that is normal after a blizzard.  I returned back home.  There are still tenants here whose cars are still blocked by snow accumulation.  I am not sure what the policy is about town employees helping the older tenants get their cars out of the snow.  Still over all the town looks to be in pretty good shape.  I picked up the mail.  I made my bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/28/10 Tuesday 1:20 P.M.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with 1/4th of a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringles style sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.

I chatted briefly with a friend.  As far as I know nothing unusual for this time of year is going on in this area.  With all of the students home from school for the Holidays, the younger generation are probably trying to earn a little extra money in these recession torn times.  Back in the old days, when Greenwich, Connecticut was a poor town, they use to throw keg parties, where you could drink as much beer as you want for $5, but at today's prices a keg party would cost about $50 a milk shake cup.  I did notice that at the Thataway cafe on Greenwich Avenue, they are selling pitchers of Pabst beer for $5, so there must be somebody from Illinois drinking there.  I guess corporate executive types drink so much in business that when they become unemployed they keep drinking until the money runs out.  The cheapest place to drink in Greenwich use to be Augie's down by the Mianus River, where everyone seems to know everyone else's business.  Since I do not drink liquor anymore, I have a more objective viewpoint.  Obviously with all of the liquor stores in the area, somebody is still drinking alcohol for better or worse in this area.  I have not been out since last Friday on Christmas Eve to see how bad it is in this area, so all I know is what is in the local press www.greenwichtime.com .  More than likely there are some people in back country whom are away, so they are probably worried about their properties.   All I know this area probably will not be back to normal until the Monday after New Years, when people whom actually do work here are expected to be back at their jobs.

Since I have been on a night time schedule for a lot of years, I do not try to figure out what goes on here in the daytime.  I have seen a lot of people drinking alcohol over the years at night, so it would not be considered unusual behavior in this area.  In Manhattan there is a pub on every block, so more than likely with all of the New York City people in this area, some of them also drink alcohol here too.  Before the internet, the best place I knew to pick up on news was the airport bar at Westchester County airport, where one could chat with various people coming and going from around the country.  I once even saw two Norwegian pilots there who had brought over a Norwegian off shore oil rig helicopter over from Long Island in a blizzard, so having experience in the North Sea that Norwegian helicopter can even fly through blizzards with the right personnel.  I think they are stationed out of McArthur airport out on Long Island which I think is near Roosevelt field.

I never go to Long Island, since I have a friend that lives out there that seems to know his way around, and from chatting with him, it is just a lot of traffic all of the time.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will take another nap.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/28/10 Tuesday 11:30 A.M.  I made 153 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Amsterdam pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television.

The 5 foot by 7 foot Union Jack that I have was bought many years ago at the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop for $15.  Unfortunately they lost their lease, so at the end of the month, they will be closing their shop after all of these years.  Many of the Old Guard from back country use to donate items and volunteer there, but I suppose a lot of them are now pushing up tulips or retired to Florida.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/28/10 Tuesday 8:40 A.M.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.

Note: <888> 12/28/10 Tuesday 7:20 A.M.  I took a short nap.  I watched a Cary Grant and Tony Curtis movie about a pink submarine in World War II.

I no longer have the big 4 foot by 6 foot 50 star U.S.A. flag in the apartment to fly on the hallway bookcases, since I gave it to a relative in Kennebunkport, Maine this summer whom also happens to have a formal flag pole in front of the house that I fixed a couple of summers ago.  I still have the even bigger full size 6 foot by 10 foot 49 star U.S.A. flag that I bought at the New Canaan Visiting Nurse thrift shop for $5 back around 1986 that Dorothy Bush did not want back in 1989, since she could not afford a flag.  I also have a small 5 by 8 inch 48 star flag that I bought for a quarter at the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop, and I waved it at the Biathlon at the Winter Olympics at Albertville, France back in February 1992 on world wide television during a blizzard.  I also have the little 3.5 inch by 5 inch U.S.A. 50 star flag that I bought for $5 at the Greenwich Hospital thrift shop last summer.

I still have the smaller 3 inch by 5 inch flags from the Nordic countries.  I also have the big five foot by ten foot Scottish flag and the big four foot by six foot Union Jack.  I also have the 3 foot by 5 foot Union Jack, Dutch tricolor, Swedish, Saudi Arabian, Bermuda and U.S. Air Force flags.  However, when one flies them on the hallway bookcases, one can not see the smaller items on the hallway bookcase, which are important the overall appearance of the apartment.

Although I never met Dorothy Bush that I remember, I recall she looked like Helen Kress William's twin sister, so possibly somebody out there in Oyster Bay, Long Island knows something about these sailors that sail back and forth between Greenwich and Oyster Bay all of the time.

The senior British representative in Greenwich, Connecticut does not say much.  He told me many years ago, I am suppose to keep doing what I am doing, and I am not suppose to know what goes on, and I am suppose to stay focused, and I am suppose to get a hair cut whenever I can afford it, which is not often.  He has put on about 50 pounds, since he told me that, so he is eating well anyway.

I also still have the brass shield of Pall Mall in the apartment by the Ethan Allen recliner in the living room.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/28/10 Tuesday 1:50 A.M.  I will now eat a three day old muffin with some watered down punch.

I will shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go back to bed.

Partly cloudy and 34 to 23 degrees Fahrenheit today.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/28/10 Tuesday 1:20 A.M.  After the storm: cleaning up and staying safe - GreenwichTime  CIO

Note: <888> 12/28/10 Tuesday 12:15 A.M.  Tracking number is "420068309101969010386921551646" at www.usps.com for the order for Gigabyte GA-7VT600P-RZ Motherboard Socket A 462 SATA - eBay (item 110626681789 end time Dec-26-10 19:12:20 PST) for $15.51 and $14.70 shipping for $30.21 total.

My 11 A.M. appointment today has been rescheduled for Tuesday January 4, 2011 at 11 A.M..

Note: <888> 12/27/10 Monday 11:05 P.M.  I woke up at 9 P.M..  I ate a piece of pumpkin pie with Cool Whip lite.  I picked up the mail.  I printed out a Christmas letter and put it with a Christmas card, and I left it outside a neighbor's door.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/27/10 Monday 2:40 P.M.  I ate a eight ounce sautéed eye round of beef cheese burger on a Kaiser roll with ketchup with my Christmas steamed vegetable mixture which included besides the baby carrot slices and broccoli crowns also has asparagus slices and sweet potato cubes with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.

When I opened up the new 10 ounce bottle of Kikkoman soy sauce, it was very difficult to open.  I might have broken my jar opener trying to open it.  I finally used a knife to cut the red sealing ring.  I still was not able to open it.  I tried a damp cloth and a towel too.  I finally was able to open it with my vintage blue Lolly Prince jar opener which is about the most useful item any politician has ever given me. 

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/27/10 Monday 12:55 P.M.  Door Stop Alarm

Note: <888> 12/27/10 Monday 11:35 A.M.  Parts of Nassau County, Long Island got over 20 inches of snow Blizzard shuts down Monday commute for LI .

Note: <888> 12/27/10 Monday 10:45 A.M.  Storm still wreaking havoc on region; snow to continue throughout morning - GreenwichTime .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/27/10 Monday 9:40 A.M.  I woke up at 6:30 A.M..  Greenwich, Connecticut got 11 inches of snow, and Manhattan got 16 inches of snow, and Brooklyn got 20 inches of snow.  Some parts of New Jersey got 24 inches of snow.  Amtrak still is not running from Washington D.C. to Boston.  The New York airports will not open until later this afternoon.

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.

I went bundled up warmly, and I went outside.  The building custodian has plowed the sidewalks in front of the building and the town of Greenwich has plowed Vinci Drive.  Most of the snow had blown off my Audi, so I cleared the remaining snow off the Audi.  I then drove it in and out of its parking place and compacted some of the snow underneath it.  Thus I am good to go.  I do not have any appointments until one tomorrow morning at 11 A.M..  I chatted with the building custodian and a neighbor.  I chatted with two relatives.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/26/10 Sunday 11:25 P.M.  I watched some television.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go back to bed.

Snow tomorrow and 25 to 16 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/26/10 Sunday 10:20 P.M.  I bought Gigabyte GA-7VT600P-RZ Motherboard Socket A 462 SATA - eBay (item 110626681789 end time Dec-26-10 19:12:20 PST) for $15.51 and $14.70 shipping for $30.21 total.  I will use it for a spare motherboard for my primary work Windows 7 computer.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/26/10 Sunday 9:40 P.M.  Well, if anyone paid attention to this remote area in southwestern Connecticut, you might find this Jeep Jeep dealership across the street from my apartment building Jeep Chrysler Dodge City, CT Jeep dealers in Greenwich, Connecticut, serving Stamford, Rye, White Plains NY, 06830 .  Of course one could always join the www.army.mil and get one for free.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/26/10 Sunday 9:25 P.M.  I woke up, and I ate an untoasted English muffin.  I finally woke up at 7:30 P.M..  I checked outside, there looks to be about 4 to 6 inches of snow, but it is drifting, so it is hard to tell.  I chatted with a friend.

I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with 1/4th of a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringles style sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.

Note: <888> 12/26/10 Sunday 11:20 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/26/10 Sunday 10:55 A.M.  Light snow has started in Greenwich, Connecticut U.S.A..  CIO

Note: <888> 12/26/10 Sunday 10:35 A.M.  BBC News - New Zealand's Christchurch hit by strong aftershocks

Note: <888> 12/26/10 Sunday 10:10 A.M.  No snow here yet, but it is suppose to be snowing in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  About a half hour ago, I saw a jet landing at Westchester County airport, so it will probably be one of the last planes out before the snow comes.

I chatted with a relative.  They are suppose to get up to two feet of snow along the coast of Maine in Kennebunkport, Maine.

I reheated and ate the rest of the rice-a-roni from yesterday along with a piece of pumpkin pie and Cool Whip lite and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/26/10 Sunday 8:35 A.M.  $14.99 with free shipping Newegg.com - Rosewill RX-DU101 2.5" & 3.5" USB 2.0 Docking Station

Note: <888> 12/26/10 Sunday 8:00 A.M.  $289.99 with free shipping Amazon.com: VIZIO E320VA 32-Inch 720p LCD HDTV, Black: Electronics CIO

Note: <888> 12/26/10 Sunday 7:50 A.M.  Blizzard warning issued for southern Fairfield, New Haven counties; Winter storm warning for north - GreenwichTime

Note: <888> 12/26/10 Sunday 7:40 A.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a friend that returned from Stowe, Vermont.   During the blizzard tonight, there are suppose to be 50 to 60 mile an hour winds.   Thus possibly there could be electrical outages.  They are calling for up to two feet of drifting snow and more in Boston.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/26/10 Sunday 6:25 A.M.  I also ate a piece of pumpkin pie early this morning with Cool Whip lite.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 12/25/10:

Note: <888> 12/25/10 Saturday 4:35 P.M.  I put the pumpkin pie in a plastic bag in the refrigerator to eat later.

I watched some television.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed for the evening.

!!!!! Blizzard warning 11 to 16 inches of snow starting at 6 A.M. tomorrow morning until Monday afternoon.

Note: <888> 12/25/10 Saturday 2:20 P.M.  Around noon, I made my Christmas dinner.  I cooked a box of chicken rice-a-roni per the instructions, but I used olive oil and Smart Balance spread instead of butter or margarine.  I steamed sweet potato cubes, broccoli crowns, slices of baby carrots, and slices of asparagus that I put olive oil and Smart Balance on.

When one considers that today a Whopper at Burger King costs $6.35, my beef tenderloin for $7.50 for 3/4ths of a pound was not too expensive.  I put it on a roasting rack in a small broiler pan, and I rubbed it with olive oil, and I seasoned it lightly with Montreal Steak Seasoning.  For rare, I cooked it in the Sharp Convection oven at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes.  For medium rare, one would probably do 350 degrees Fahrenheit and two to three minutes longer.  Since it is a very tender cut of meat, one does not want to over cook it.  I ate one third of the rice-a-roni, and I refrigerated the rest.  I ate it all together with a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  It was a delicious filling meal.  I washed the dishes.  I cooked a 26 ounce Mrs. Smith's pumpkin pie, and I am now letting it cool for two hours on a wire rack.

I chatted with two relatives.

Pictures of the Christmas Dinner and Christmas tree.

http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-122510/

http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/mls-apt-122510/

CIO 

Note: <888> 12/25/10 Saturday 10:50 A.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/25/10 Saturday 10:15 A.M.  I watched some television. 

A relative called me up to wish me Merry Christmas.  We chatted for a while.

I ate a day old muffin and a clementine.

I will make and eat my Christmas dinner around noon time.

Note: <888> 12/25/10 Saturday 8:40 A.M.  Royal Christmas without Prince William - FoxNews.com

Note: <888> 12/25/10 Saturday 8:05 A.M.  BBC - Earth News - Tiger team marks 20 years of conflict resolution

Note: <888> 12/25/10 Saturday 7:20 A.M.  I opened up a gift from a relative, I got this in XXL in Royal Stewart Scotch Plaid Flannel Shirt: Flannel, Chamois and Lined at L.L.Bean .

I also got a small photograph album with pictures of my relatives at my niece's and her husband's wedding this past June 2010 up in Kennebunkport, Maine.  It brings back fond memories of the warmer days of summer and good times.  I put it underneath and in front of the living room Sony television with their wedding photograph.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/25/10 Saturday 6:10 A.M.  I will now shower and clean up.  I will not be going out for an early morning walk, since it is 22 degrees Fahrenheit outside, and on Christmas morning, there would be no place to go to the bathroom.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/25/10 Saturday 5:25 A.M.  Merry Christmas.  I woke up at 3 A.M..  I turned on the Christmas tree lights.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I did three loads of laundry, and I have 5 minutes to go on three drier loads.  I put two new AA alkaline batteries in the primary computer Microsoft wireless keyboard.  I used duct tape to tape up the left side of the sheet on the bedroom window.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  CIO     

Note: <888> 12/24/10 Friday 6:40 P.M.  I ate a day old muffin and a Clementine.  Earlier this afternoon, I ate two Clementines.  I watched some television.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Cloudy on Christmas day and 32 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/24/10 Friday 5:00 P.M.  Acqua alta: Venice floods and high water | Italy Heaven

Note: <888> 12/24/10 Friday 4:00 P.M.  I threw out the garbage, and the old periodical literature and the hard drive shipping boxes.  I picked up the mail.  I watered the plants.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/24/10 Friday 3:30 P.M.  I went downstairs, and I checked the mail, and it is not here yet.

Note: <888> 12/24/10 Friday 1:10 P.M.  I ate a eight ounce sautéed eye round of beef cheese burger on a Kaiser roll with ketchup with my usual steamed vegetable mixture which included besides the baby carrot slices and broccoli crowns also has asparagus slices and sweet potato cubes with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/24/10 Friday 11:05 A.M.  I woke up at 5 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I heard on the morning news there is a blizzard in down state Illinois, so it might be coming our way soon.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.  I went out, and I picked up a prescription at CVS.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I walked for a while with one Norwegian resident.  I stopped by CVS again, and I toured the store.  On the way down Greenwich Avenue, I used the bathroom at CVS.  I sat out for a while after my walk.  The Greenwich Library is closed today.  I stopped the Stop and Shop, and I bought a box of four day old muffins for $2, a 8 ounce tub of Cool Whip Lite for $1.25, fresh asparagus for $3.79 a pound for $3.75, fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.68,  a five pound box of Clementines from Spain for $3.99, two golden yams for .50 a pound for .69, and a beef tenderloin tip for $9.99 a pound for $7.59 for $20.95 total.  I paid for $20 of it with my Greenwich Department of Social Services Voucher.  I then returned home, and I put away my groceries.  The butcher told me that I should cook the beef tenderloin in the convection oven at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for about 15 minutes.  One does not want to over cook it.  I will have it tomorrow for Christmas dinner with steamed yam cubes, sliced asparagus, baby carrots sliced and broccoli crowns with Smart Balance spread and olive oil, and Rice-A-Roni, along with a slice of Mrs. Smith's Pumpkin pie with Cool Whip lite and watered down punch.  I was told today is a Holiday, so one does not have to pay to park downtown.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/24/10 Friday 12:20 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go back to bed.

Partly cloudy today and 36 to 23 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/23/10 Thursday 11:15 P.M.  I still have a spare used motherboard like the one below.  The similar one in my primary Windows 7 work computer is the same, but it does not have the two SATA connectors.  I do not plan to change my primary Windows 7 computer setup anytime in the near future, so I could use another spare motherboard for it, but I can wait a while for now.  Still in the future they will be harder to find.

I ate two hotdogs on buns with Dijon mustard and ketchup and 1/4th a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringles style sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/23/10 Thursday 10:30 P.M.  Lots of my primary Windows 7 computer motherboards used here with SATA Gigabyte 7VT600P-RZ Socket 462 A MOTHERBOARD AMD KT600 - eBay (item 320561109134 end time Jan-08-11 23:22:29 PST) for $78 with free shipping.  When I threw out the bedroom Gigabyte computer last winter, I made a mistake and threw out this spare motherboard with it.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/23/10 Thursday 2:40 P.M.  The Norwegian and Danish and Amsterdam blends of Peter Stokkebye pipe tobacco are now available here again pipesandcigars.com Peter Stokkebye Bulk Tobacco .

Note: <888> 12/23/10 Thursday 1:40 P.M.  I ate a 18 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder with a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/23/10 Thursday 12:20 P.M.  Certain rich relatives of mine eat this at Christmas Time Greenberg Smoked Turkeys .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/23/10 Thursday 12:05 P.M.  I took one eight ounce Ball mason jar of the Peter Stokkebye Amsterdam pipe tobacco that I had cut up in the Cuisine Art and one eight ounce Ball mason jar of the Peter Stokkebye Norwegian pipe tobacco as is, and I mixed it all together, and I then made 137 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Amsterdam and Norwegian pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com  on television.  Blending the Amsterdam pipe tobacco that has been cut up in the CuisineArt with the Norwegian pipe tobacco as is makes I think a superior cigarette than either of the two blends separately.  However, I currently can not afford to buy more Norwegian pipe tobacco to go with five pounds of Amsterdam pipe tobacco that I still have in reserve.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/23/10 Thursday 8:55 A.M.  High winds, flurries today; Snowstorm looks likely for Sunday-Monday - GreenwichTime

Note: <888> 12/23/10 Thursday 7:50 A.M.  From www.vistaprint.com , I ordered 500 updated calling cards for $7.74 and $6.15 slow 21 day shipping for $13.89 total.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/23/10 Thursday 7:05 A.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs and four strips of fried thick bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of 50%punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements and a cup of coffee with spenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/23/10 Thursday 5:40 A.M.  I woke up yesterday at 8 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a relative.  I went back to bed until 10 P.M., when I chatted with a friend.  I went back to bed until midnight.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with 1/4th of a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringles style sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I went back to bed until 5 A.M. this morning.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/22/10 Wednesday 11:55 A.M.  I called up www.cl-p.com at 1-800-286-2000 or 1-860-947-2000 , and they told me the electric rate with be going down 2 cents a unit at whatever unit rate they charge as of the first of the year.  They also told me they are planning for snow in this area this Sunday, December 26, 2010 the day after Christmas.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Today partly cloudy and windy and 35 to 27 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/22/10 Wednesday 11:05 A.M.  I ate two hotdogs on buns with Dijon mustard and ketchup and 1/4th a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringles style sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/22/10 Wednesday 10:00 A.M.  From Cell phone accessories, Mobile accessories - Motorola, Samsung, LG, Nokia, Nextel, Sony ericsson, Sanyo, Kyocera, Audiovox and Bluetooth I ordered Electronic Travel Charger For Nokia Cellular Phones (TC-1) - Nokia 5230 Nuron Chargers for $2.99 and Universal USB Car Charger Kit With 4 Phone Connectors - Sony Ericsson W380a Car Chargers for $5.99 and Outdoor Style Carrying Case For Nokia 2720 - Nokia 2720 Cases for $4.59 and Holster For Nokia 2720 - Nokia Belt Clip / Holster for $1.99 and LCD Protective Film For Cellular Phone (70mm x 110mm) - Dell Streak for $1.99 less 7% savings with coupon code "CELL7" for $1.19 discount for $16.95 subtotal and $4.99 shipping for $20.75 total.

Note: <888> 12/22/10 Wednesday 7:20 A.M.  I ate the other half portion of rice that I made a couple of nights ago, and I ate it with some watered down punch.

Note: <888> 12/22/10 Wednesday 5:40 A.M.  Top 10 Microsoft Stories Of 2010 -- InformationWeek

Note: <888> 12/22/10 Wednesday 2:40 A.M.  I ate a baloney and cheese sandwich on a Kaiser roll with 1/4th of a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringles style sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I chatted with www.cablevision.com , and I told them they should put more family entertainment on their cable channels instead of all of the violence.  I called up an out of town security agency.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/22/10 Wednesday 1:15 A.M.  I woke up, and I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread.  I woke up again at 10 A.M., and I chatted with a relative.  I finally woke up at 6 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 9 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I ate a untoasted English muffin.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with a relative.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I went by the Stop and Shop.  I bought a 16 ounce package of Smart Balance spread for $2.89, a 8 ounce jar of Grey Poupon Country Dijon mustard for $2.99, a 32 ounce jar of Hellmann's Olive Oil mayonnaise for $4.39, a 48 ounce container of Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $4.99, a 32 ounce bottle of Borden lemon juice for $2.69, and a 10 ounce bottle of Kikkoman soy sauce for $2.29 for $20.24 total.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS which is opened late until midnight on December 23, 2010, and I bought two 6 ounce tubes of Colgate MaxWhite toothpaste for $2.75 each and .33 tax for $5.83 total. 

Note: <888> 12/21/10 Tuesday 5:30 A.M.  I watched a bit of television.  I ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder with a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Today partly cloudy and windy and 34 to 24 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/21/10 Tuesday 3:25 A.M.  Greenwich Gossip  CIO

Note: <888> 12/21/10 Tuesday 3:15 A.M.  I stood out in 28 degree Fahrenheit weather without my gloves on, and I took pictures of the lunar eclipse from about 15 minutes before it was full until it was full.  That was all of the cold weather my cold hands could take.

http://mikelouisscott.com/eclipse-122110/

http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/eclipse-122110/

I will now have a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/21/10 Tuesday 2:00 A.M.  Forbes: America's Best and Worse Banks

Tracking is USPS - Track & Confirm on the order for a new SEAGATE 7200.10 Harddrive Factory Sealed 300 IDE - eBay (item 280603970111 end time Dec-23-10 22:09:28 PST) for $41 and $6.90 shipping for $47.90 total.

For my Epson Stylus C120 printer, I ordered Epson T069 (T069120, T069220, T069320, T069420) Remanufactured Inkjet Cartridges Combo (4 Pack): One Each of Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow for $24.95 less 30% with coupon code "abc30per" for $7.49 off for $17.46 total with free shipping.

Note: <888> 12/21/10 Tuesday 12:55 A.M.  City of Placerville, CA

Note: <888> 12/20/10 Monday 11:50 P.M.  Not much snow yet in Truckee, California Truckee, California (96160) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground

Note: <888> 12/20/10 Monday 10:55 P.M.  I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread after the last note.  I went to bed, and I woke up at 6 P.M..  The $48 that was taken out of my Chase Bank account was put back into my Chase Bank account, so I guess that matter is resolved.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with a relative.  I surfed the internet.  I threw out the garbage.  I moved the Audi to its usual place.  I picked up the mail.

It is a clear sky tonight, here so one should be able to see the total lunar eclipse at 2:41 A.M. EST this morning December 21, 2010 FoxNews.com - Amazing Spectacle: Total Lunar Eclipse Monday Night .  I guess the local astronomy club will be out in full force during the early morning hours.  There is a big ring around the moon at the moment.

Note: <888> 12/20/10 Monday 10:50 A.M.  For the last few days www.chase.com has been reversing the $48 credit they gave me in early November 2010 on the charge for the fraudulent Windows 7 product keys that I bought in mid July 2010.  I called them up in the Philippines this past Friday, and the $48 charge was suppose to be refunded to me in two days which it has not been.  I just called them up again at 1-866-564-2262, and they answered in Ohio, and they told me they had no record of the call this past Friday.  They said they would investigate, and they would let me know in 24 hours or email me.  I called up my local branch at 1-203-861-7379, and they said to wait for another day, and then get back to them.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Today partly cloudy and windy and 32 to 22 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO   

There is suppose to be 10% off any hard drive with promo code "emczzyr2" up to $10 at Newegg.com - Hard Drives, External Hard Drives, Internal Hard Drives, Laptop Hard Drives, Portable Hard Drives, Computer Hard Drives, SATA Hard Drives, Hard Drive

Note: <888> 12/20/10 Monday 8:40 A.M.  I bought a new SEAGATE 7200.10 Harddrive Factory Sealed 300 IDE - eBay (item 280603970111 end time Dec-23-10 22:09:28 PST) for $41 and $6.90 shipping for $47.90 total.  Now I will have another spare one.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/20/10 Monday 6:25 A.M.  Greenwich to introduce pay-by-phone parking for commuters - GreenwichTime  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/20/10 Monday 4:45 A.M.  Not much seems to be happening way out here in Southwestern Connecticut anymore.  I suppose with the higher prices of gasoline people are just staying home and maintaining the home fires.  There is not much traffic anymore in the off hours.  I guess nobody feels like being awake at night anymore, since it is not very profitable.  I guess one could take up the moonshine business, but I suppose with advanced traffic monitoring on the waterfront, it would not be very profitable.  I guess there is so much land in the north country, people do not feel like paying the higher real estate prices in this area, when there is a lot cheaper land not too much further north of here.   Thus if one does not need to go to New York City to work, there is not much point in being in this area.  However, since I manage to survive keeping an eye on this www.ibm.com bedroom community after all of these years, I suppose I have my own viewpoint compared to the daytime people.  In some urban areas in the north country people work around the clock 24 hours a day, because in the extreme north, it can be darker for much longer in the winter.  It is only 24 degrees Fahrenheit outside which is not too cold if one dresses for it, and gets plenty of rest and eats well enough.  Basically in colder weather, one's body is using more energy, so one has to keep one's energy level up.  Still  I know people from further north of here, and they seem to enjoy the warmer weather in the winter here.  I guess if one wanted to do an interesting news story on this area, one could explore the rest areas in Darien, Connecticut on I-95 and see where people are coming from and going to.   I suppose more people are headed south this time of year.  Although it is a long drive south in the winter from here, some people need their cars down south, so they drive down there, whenever they venture on down to Florida.  From experience it is pretty bleak and cold out there on Interstate 95 south in the winter until about the time one gets half way down the coast of Florida, when it starts to warm up a bit.  I suppose there are probably a few stranded travelers all of the time in this area, but I do not have the funds or the time to explore what is going on in the larger area around me.  I would recommend to any highway travelers on I-95 south that they have sufficient funds to deal with an emergency, and there is probably not as much traffic on the highway in the winter as there use to be with the higher prices of fuel.  Rental cars are not too expensive in Florida, so if one is only staying a short time, it is probably cheaper to rent a car down in Florida versus the wear and tear on an automobile driving over a thousand miles south each way.  Still in America, there are still Road Warriors out there exploring the Greater America for better or worse.  If one should run out of money in Florida despite the warmer weather, it is a lot harder for people from out of state to make money, so you might become a bit uncomfortable if you become homeless or are left sleeping in your car on some roadside rest area.  Generally once people get to driving a long distance, from experience they tend to keep on going until they get there.  I never had any money to stay in hotels or motels when I drove north and south in the old days, so it would be just one long exhausting trip until I reached my destination.  We might get a few Canadians heading south through this area, but I have not seen many Canadian license plates recently.  Having been a neighbor of the www.un.org when I used http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm 's apartment in the old days at 420 East 49th street, I am always asking people where they are from, so I have some point of reference when dealing with them. Of course there are probably people from the New York City area also, whom do not like being asked where they are from.  Most people ignore me downtown on Greenwich Avenue, because it is a younger crowd down there, and they do not seem to be too friendly to cigarette smokers whom enjoy fresh air.  It was much the same in New York City in the old days, when I would wander around at night and in the early morning hours.   Still even in the daytime, they are not too friendly around here.  They seem to focus on people whom are in the media as opposed to your average run of the mill village idiot.  Basically a lot of people around here tend to read a lot of books, so they can be quite well informed, so they frequently suggest to you to read a book about a subject matter as opposed to giving a stranger their life's story.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/20/10 Monday 3:50 A.M.  Sulfur in Magmas and Melts

Note: <888> 12/20/10 Monday 1:40 A.M.  I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread before going to bed.  I woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 59 ounce container of Florida Natural orange juice with calcium for $2.50, a pound of Stop and Shop sliced white American cheese for $3.49, a 16 ounce package of Smart Balance lite spread for $2.89, sliced deli Boars Head white American cheese for $5.99 a pound for $6.11, sliced deli Stop and Shop Wondabar sliced baloney for $2.49 a pound for $4.62, a 2 pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $2.13, broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $2.15 for $26.88 total.  I then went downtown, and I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  The train station was opened late.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 12 packs of Thomas' English muffins for $1.99 each 12 pack for $3.98 total.  I then bought a small jewelers eye glass screw drive with spare eye glass screws for $1.99 and .12 tax for $2.11 total.  I then finished my walk.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  I retrieved a 25% off CVS coupon, and I went back out to CVS on Greenwich Avenue.   They are opened late until midnight on December 23, 2010.  I looked at their GPS for Dummies for $129.99 which I could have gotten for 25% off less another $30 off with a store coupon that I got earlier, but I decided not to get it for around $68, since it only has a three inch screen which I would not be able to read easily in the car.  I then toured the store until they closed just before midnight.  There was nothing that I needed with my 25% off coupon.  I then went by the Courtesy Mobil gasoline station at 623 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $10 of self service premium for $3.539 a gallon for 2.826 gallons 31.5 miles driving since Friday December 10, 2010 at odometer reading of 68148 miles for 11.147 miles per gallon driving mostly in local traffic.  I then cleaned my outside windows.  I then played a Holiday Magic scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I then returned home.  I will now make up a fresh batch of punch.  I then will make up the same cheeseburger dinner that I ate a couple of nights ago.  CIO    

End of Scott's Notes week of 12/19/10:

Note: <888> 12/19/10 Sunday 4:45 A.M.  I watched a bit of television.

I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then go back to bed.

Afternoon snow showers and 35 to 24 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/19/10 Sunday 2:50 A.M.  I guess when sailing the east coast of America down to the Caribbean, it is Starboard Out and Port Home or "SOPH", so one has a view of the coast line.

I guess freezing Norwegian Patrol if they were not doing anything until 4 A.M. this morning could drive over to the A&P in Port Chester, New York and buy a 1.75 liter bottle of Mount Gay Rum, the rum that invented rum for about $40.  When I worked with Ian Greenshield out in Nantucket up until early December in 1983, he told me rum was very important to the Canadian economy. 

They use to have a pub over in White Plains, New York, where one might get a chance to watch a Rockefeller make money, but they had so many staff in attendance, nobody could figure out whom the real person might be.

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If you prefer to fly by air, one could always try to book a reservation at Mt Irvine in Tobago.

Note: <888> 12/19/10 Sunday 2:10 A.M.  Nothing happening on the internet.  I guess everyone got cold feet and went south for the winter.

Note: <888> 12/19/10 Sunday 1:10 A.M.  I woke up at 1 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed.  I chatted with a relative at 4 P.M..  I went back to bed.  I chatted with a relative at 6 P.M..  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I ate the other half of flavored rice that I made last night.  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail.

I made 143 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Norwegian shag pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching movies on television.

I will now prepare and eat a Stauffer's 21 ounce tomato and meat lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese which I will eat with a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/18/10 Saturday 8:00 A.M.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Mostly sunny today and 34 to 26 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/18/10 Saturday 5:40 A.M.  I ate two hotdogs on buns with Dijon mustard and ketchup and 1/4th a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringles style sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/18/10 Saturday 4:50 A.M.  I put away the laundry.

Note: <888> 12/18/10 Saturday 3:50 A.M.  Ronald Reagan Library Holiday Gifts

I have 40 minutes to go on the two dry cycles.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/18/10 Saturday 3:10 A.M.  I woke up at 2 A.M..  I put clean linens on the bed.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 20 minutes to go on the wash cycle.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/17/10 Friday 10:00 P.M.  After dinner, I chatted with a relative.  I watched a little bit of television.  I think I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go back to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/17/10 Friday 7:55 P.M.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up the mail.  I watered the plants.

I will now make and eat a sautéed 8 ounce eye round burger with two slices of processed cheese and ketchup on a Kaiser roll with half of a portion of my steamed flavor rice mixture and my usual steamed vegetables and a glass of watered down punch a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/17/10 Friday 7:15 P.M.  Earlier I cleaned the Ionic Pro air purifier.

Although I am currently warm enough in my apartment at the moment, and it is warmer with the new double pane windows, once I get my December 2010 electric bill at the first of January 2011, and see how much the heat has cost this December, I might have to turn the heat down a bit to a cooler temperature in order to save money.

One reason, I do not drive my Audi as much is that I think it is better to use the energy to stay warm at home than to use it to heat up an automobile and sit out and walk in the cold on downtown Greenwich Avenue.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/17/10 Friday 6:45 P.M.  I woke up at 1 P.M..   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.

I did a Windows 7 Complete PC backup of both partitions on the primary work computer to the Bytecc external hard drive.

I tested the Seagate FreeAgent Go 500 Gigabyte external hard drive on the three laptop computers all of which do not have SATA controllers, and it would not work on any of them.

I copied the server folder to the Seagate external hard drive and a few other files.

I chatted with a friend.

I will now shower and clean up.

Note: <888> 12/17/10 Friday 6:05 A.M.  Biltmore Email Newsletter

Note: <888> 12/17/10 Friday 5:25 A.M.  I ate the other half of the flavored rice that I made this past evening along with some watered down punch.  I am now backing up the IBM ThinkCentre M52 8213 computer to the Seagate external hard drive.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/17/10 Friday 4:35 A.M.  I am backing up the bedroom Abit computer to the Seagate external hard drive.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/17/10 Friday 4:10 A.M.   The Seagate FreeAgent Go 500 Gigabyte external hard drive does not work with a powered hub on the primary work computer.  Actually the octopus hub that I had already tried it with is a powered hub. 

Basically, when it is plugged into any of the USB 2.0 ports on the primary Gigabyte computer, its light do not stay on steady which it should, instead it blinks.  It would lead me to believe, it is not getting enough USB 2.0 power from the computer. 

It works on all of the other desktop computers.  I have not tried it on the laptops yet.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/17/10 Friday 2:35 A.M.  This is the powered USB 2.0 hub that I am using on the Epox and have connected to the primary computer 7 Ports USB 2.0 Super Slim Compact HUB, Indicator Lights, AC Power Adapter Included - Meritline.com .  However, if you leave it continually connected, it burns out in about a year.

These powered USB 2.0 hubs are also available 10 Ports USB 2.0 Hub, Power Adapter Included, with AC Adapter, White with Silver - Meritline.com  and 10 Ports USB 2.0 Hub, Power Adapter Included - Meritline.com.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/17/10 Friday 2:15 A.M.  I keep telling people the Whitneys from Minnesota are making all of the money Wheelock Whitney (businessman) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  CIO

Note: <888> 12/17/10 Friday 2:10 A.M.  The powered hub would not work off the primary computer Gigabyte motherboard USB 2.0 port, but it works off the octopus USB 2.0 hub connected to the PCI USB 2.0 card.  Once the Epox backup is finished, I will test the Seagate external hard drive on the primary computer off the powered USB 2.0 hub.  When using an external hard drive in devices under drives, I set its policy for optimize for speed, but that means you have to use the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" icon in the tray to disconnect the external hard drive.  On a larger computer hard drive, it can take a while to back up to an external hard drive.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/17/10 Friday 1:35 A.M.  The Seagate FreeAgent Go 500 Gigabyte external hard drive works on the Epox computer when it is connected to the powered hub.  After I finish the backup, I will try it again on the primary computer with the powered hub from the FIC server.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/17/10 Friday 1:20 A.M.  I am now doing a Windows 7 Complete PC backup of the C: drive on the Epox computer to the D: drive.  It all seems to be running just fine.

Note: <888> 12/17/10 Friday 12:10 A.M.  I put two new AA alkaline batteries in the primary computer Microsoft wireless mouse and the Epox computer Microsoft wireless mouse.

On the Netgear FA311 LAN card to get it to work with Windows 7 one has to change in the device manager its properties from "AutoSense" to 100MB/Full Duplex and then it works just fine.  I am now installing the Windows 7 updates on the Epox computer.  It is just one of my backup computers, but it has the Hauppauge 1600 TV card in it, but CLONE mode does not work with it in Windows 7 Media Player.  I will try to install the Media Player update on it to possibly get it working in clone mode.  I feel like I am still beta testing Windows 7 after all of this time.

I have the Vista FIC server setup to work in Clone mode at the moment connected to the Sony television in the living room.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/16/10 Thursday 11:35 P.M.  I put a new CMOS 2032 lithium battery in the Epox computer, and I reset the Bios.  I also took out the old Belkin LAN card, and I put in a Netgear FA311 LAN card, and I installed its drivers.  I am now installing updates on it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/16/10 Thursday 9:05 P.M.  I chatted with a friend and a relative.

I tried connecting the Seagate Freeagent Go external hard drive directly to the two motherboard USB 2.0 ports on the primary work Gigabyte computer, but the system still would not install the correct drivers, but instead the "initio default controller" device driver.  Once yesterday and once today, it did try to install the correct drivers, and then installation of the correct Seagate drivers failed. 

Possibly there is not enough power to my USB 2.0 ports.  The only other possibility is that the primary Gigabyte motherboard does not have SATA controllers, so possibly it will not recognize a SATA USB 2.0 external hard drive.

The only other option I have seen is to crack the Seagate external hard drive case, and put the SATA drive into a generic SATA case, but I would rather not do that, since it works on the other computers that I have tested.  Plus it would void the warranty.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/16/10 Thursday 7:25 P.M.  I ate the same dinner that I ate two nights ago, but instead of small red baked potatoes, I had a half portion of my flavored rice.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/16/10 Thursday 5:25 P.M.  I woke up at 9 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I sat out for a brief spell.  I then went to my 1:30 P.M. appointment.  I then went by the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by the Senior and the Arts center, and I used the bathroom there.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store, and I chatted with some of the staff.  I stopped by CVS, and I toured the store.  I then sat out for a while.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with the same staff member twice.  I read www.pcworld.com magazine.  I then returned home, and I picked up the mail. 

I received a letter that I am going to get a gift from www.honeybell.com .  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/16/10 Thursday 12:05 A.M.  I went out, and I picked up the mail. 

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

I have a 1:30 P.M. appointment today.

Today mostly sunny and 31 to 22 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/15/10 Wednesday 11:25 P.M.  The device drivers that Windows 7 installs for the Seagate FreeAgent Go 500 gigabyte external hard drive is  "initio default controller".

I tried installing the Seagate external hard drive directly to two USB ports on my PCI USB 2.0 card at the rear of the desktop, and the same thing happened.   From reading the tech notes on the internet, it is a common problem, and there does not yet seem to be a fix for it.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/15/10 Wednesday 9:55 P.M.  I woke up during the morning, and I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread.  I finally woke up at 11 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I installed the Vista partition updates on the primary Windows 7 work computer.  I then backed up both partitions on the first hard drive to the third hard drive.

I tried to back it up to the new Seagate FreeAgent Go 500 gigabyte external hard drive, the Primary Windows 7 computer would not recognize it in Windows 7.  Instead it kept installing the device for another device driver that I forget its name.  I spent about eight hours working on the problem.  There is no solution for it.  The Seagate external hard drive does work on the IBM ThinkCentres.  Also Vista would not boot with it connected on the primary Windows 7 computer, and neither would safe boot on both partitions.  Thus I will keep the Seagate FreeAgent Go external hard drives for the other computers that it might work on, when I have a chance to check them out.  It might be that I am not getting enough power for both USB plugs of the drive.  I did try connecting it directly without the docking station, and it just kept installing the forgotten driver.  I will work on it in the future.

I chatted with a relative.  I will now make and eat a Stouffer's 21 ounce meat and tomato lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO       

Note: <888> 12/14/10 Tuesday 11:35 P.M.  I installed the Windows Updates on all of the desktop and laptop computers.  However, I was not able to install the Windows Update for Vista on the Primary Windows 7 Vista partition on the primary work computer.  I guess at about 11 P.M. Windows Updates slowed down. 

I used to have a number of cold weather friends, but with the increasing price of gasoline in this area, they can no longer afford to come visit in this area. 

Since I have been so busy on my computers and network recently, I have not had as much time to spend downtown, plus I also spend about six to seven hours a week stuffing my own cigarettes, which is about two days of walking in my spare time.  Thus the folks that use to see me around all of the time, no longer get to see me around as much anymore.  I usually go out for a walk after I first wake up and have breakfast depending on the time of day it is.  I decided last winter, when there was no place to go to the bathroom downtown late at night and in the early morning hours not to go out during those hours anymore. 

Also I am getting older, so I wear out easier than when I was younger.   I also have to maintain my shopping and cooking routines and regular apartment maintenance besides the computers.  All of which takes time.  Still the more time I spend at home, things seem to be running better.  I still have a number of magazines including back issues of www.forbes.com that I have not had time to read.

Since I have ample communications, and nobody communicates outside of family members and a couple of friends, I have a feeling the general community is basically unaware of my presence which is the way it should be.  My family have always tried to be private in this Fish Bowl community.  In the old days when we lived in back country and in New Canaan, we never went downtown except for school and the grocery and hardware stores.  I guess with all of the New York City people here whom like to see and to be seen, we will continue to have a lot of exercise walker shoppers.  Basically the Country Club people use to include a lot of corporate executives, and since Corporations have secrets, corporate people are not as friendly and social as the everyday village idiots and gossips.  Since I have not been in a Corporation since July 1976, I do not have any corporate secrets, and since I once was a professional photographer up at Polaroid in Boston, I consider myself a professional observer more than a writer.  With the large group of international residents here, if is frequently difficult to try to make sense of what is happening around town versus what the Greenwich Time publishes.  Still since we are in the New York City area, it is my viewpoint that this area will continue to have a lot of people in the area coming and going about their various routines, even if they do not live here. 

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Tomorrow scattered flurries and 27 to 22 degrees Fahrenheit.  It is currently 16 degrees Fahrenheit.

I got a package from a relative this evening via UPS.  I will not open it until Christmas.  CIO    

Note: <888> 12/14/10 Tuesday 9:20 P.M.  I ate the last piece of apple pie and a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/14/10 Tuesday 8:50 P.M.  Seagate Cheap Hard Drives

Note: <888> 12/14/10 Tuesday 8:20 P.M.  I chatted with two friends and a relative.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/14/10 Tuesday 6:25 P.M.  After my last note I chatted with a cold weather friend whom is not too cold.  I picked up the mail, and I chatted with neighbors.  I went out, and I went by the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with one of the staff members.  I then returned home.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/14/10 Tuesday 4:05 P.M.  I am basically making the same dinner as yesterday, but making baked barbecued boneless breast of chicken instead.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/14/10 Tuesday 3:10 P.M.  I woke up during the morning, and I ate a poppy roll with Smart Balance spread.  I woke up finally at 8:30 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I cleaned a little bit of snow off the Audi.  I went to my 11 P.M. appointment.  I then returned home. 

I made 163 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Norwegian shag pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com .

Note: <888> 12/13/10 Monday 9:25 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Cloudy and windy tomorrow and 24 to 19 degrees Fahrenheit.

I will eat a poppy roll with Smart Balance spread before going to bed.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/13/10 Monday 9:00 P.M.  I have the Nokia 2720 wireless phone setup.  I can not figure out how to change it from the AT&T ring tone to something else though.  I bought the Elvis "Suspicious Minds" Answer tone by mistake instead of the same Ring Tone.  Thus it plays when somebody calls me up.  It cost $2.99.   I now have $51.62 left on my AT&T Go Phone until January 28, 2011.  I am now charging it up.  I put the old one in the new box with the new SIMM Card unactivated in the old wireless phone.  The old SIMM card works just fine in the new Nokia 2720.   CIO 

Note: <888> 12/13/10 Monday 6:50 P.M.  I picked up the mail.

The order with tracking of USPS - Track & Confirm on the order for a new Nokia 2720 - GoPhone® - Prepaid Cell Phone - Wireless from AT&T for $9.99 and .60 tax with free shipping for $10.59 total arrived.  When buying this item, it asks you to buy the online minutes for $25, but at checkout in the cart, one can remove the online minutes, if one does not need them.  I hope one can use one's old AT&T SIMM card with it to preserve one's current wireless number and telephone directory. 

I will now open it up, and see if it all works.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/13/10 Monday 5:35 P.M.  Asteroids expected to zip across the sky Monday night » TCPalm.com  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/13/10 Monday 5:15 P.M.  How to Install Windows on Google's Chrome OS Notebook | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

Note: <888> 12/13/10 Monday 4:05 P.M.  When I cooked dinner, I did not steam the baby red potato cubes in my vegetable mixture, but instead I pricked two of them on both sides with a fork, and I microwaved them for one minute, and then I cooked them with the baked boneless breaded boneless breast of chicken breast.  I put Smart Balance spread and olive oil with the baked potatoes and steamed vegetables.  After dinner, I threw out the garbage.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/13/10 Monday 2:00 P.M.  I woke up while sleeping, and I ate a poppy roll with Smart Balance spread.  I finally woke up at 6:15 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I mailed two Christmas cards with Christmas letters at the central Greenwich Post Office.  They still have the for sale sign in front of the central Greenwich Post Office, so I guess they still have not sold it yet.  I sat out briefly.  I then went to my medical appointment at the Greenwich Hospital Outpatient Clinic.  My cholesterol is fine.  My blood pressure is 117 over 73.  I was told to keep using the Neosporin on my right hand.  Otherwise I am fine.  I then went downtown, and I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by Zen stationary, and I played a Holiday Magic scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I also stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I played another Holiday Magic scratch card for a dollar, but I also lost.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 45 ounce Xtra Tropical 2X detergent for $1.99 each and a 2 ounce tube of CVS regular strength of Neosporin type antibacterial ointment cream for $9.99 and .24 tax for $14.21 total.  I finished my walk, and I put my purchases in the Audi.  I then used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I got my new parking permit for 2011 for the senior and the arts center.  They have an art sale going on their on the second floor this afternoon, if I read the sign right.  I sat out for a while.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two six packs of day old Kaiser rolls for $1.50 a six pack, two 12 packs of Thomas' English muffins for $1.99 a 12 pack, a six pack of White Gem boneless breasts of chicken for $1.99 a pound for $8.38 and fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.65 for $17.01 total.  I then returned home.  I put away my purchases.

I will not make and eat a baked breaded boneless breast of chicken with my usual steamed vegetable mixture and watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/13/10 Monday 12:25 A.M.  Happy Birthday  His Highness the Aga Khan's 74th Birthday - Mowlana Hazar Imam's 74th Birthday - December 13, 2010 , where ever he may be.  I am still a Scottish Presbyterian, Church of England Anglican, Episcopal, and Dutch Reform by religion. 

I ate a Stouffer's 21 ounce meat and tomato lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese with watered down punch.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer.   I will go to bed soon.  I have to be up at 6:30 A.M. today to make it to my 9:30 A.M. appointment.

Cloudy today and 42 to 22 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/12/10 Sunday 11:25 P.M.  4noggins.com - Peter Stokkebye still has the Amsterdam pipe tobacco which if put through the Cuisine Art can be used to make stuff your own cigarettes.   They also still have the Danish and Turkish pipe tobacco which might be good as is for Stuff Your Own cigarettes.

A friend recommended using these Denicotea Cigarette Holder with Filters | 4noggins.com to reduce the tar and nicotine of cigarettes.

Note: <888> 12/12/10 Sunday 9:55 P.M.  I did some light dusting.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/12/10 Sunday 9:05 P.M.  I tested the other four desktop computers, and they all work just fine.  Microsoft Patch Tuesday is not until this Tuesday the second Tuesday of the month, when their Windows updates are available late in the evening.  I tested the three laptop computers last weekend, when I installed the AT&T wireless card drivers on them, and they all worked just fine.  I will now install the Ubuntu updates on the old IBM Netcentre.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/12/10 Sunday 8:50 P.M.  Aga Khan photo with his current family Imamat Day 2001 Mowlana Hazar Imam's 44th year of Imamat nine years ago.

I chatted with a relative.

I watched the end of 60 Minutes.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 12/12/10:

Note: <888> 12/12/10 Sunday 7:30 P.M.  The 2006 Eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska

Note: <888> 12/12/10 Sunday 7:00 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.

Note: <888> 12/12/10 Sunday 5:40 P.M.  I went back to bed after the last note.  I woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I will now wash the breakfast dishes.  I will make my bed.  I will then shower and clean up.  Since it is raining out, I will not be going out this evening.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/12/10 Sunday 10:40 A.M.  I got up at 10 A.M..  I ate a Kaiser roll with Smart Balance spread.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/12/10 Sunday 3:05 A.M.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go back to bed.  I have three day time appointments this coming week, so I have to get a on a daytime schedule for this coming week.

Rain and wind today and 51 to 41 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/12/10 Sunday 2:15 A.M.  If one looks at Connecticut Registration Verification and types in 01 Passenger and my Connecticut license plate number "840GXO", one will now see that its new expiration date is 01/20/2013.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/12/10 Sunday 2:10 A.M.  I ate a 21 ounce Stouffer's meat and tomato lasagna with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a glass of watered down punch.

I do not think I will go out for a walk this morning, since 60 year old men should be not out at the wee hours of the morning, and also there is no place to go the bathroom downtown on Greenwich Avenue at this hour of the day.  I guess the Mountain Lions, Wolves, Coyotes and Bears will have to go without my night time observation this morning.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/12/10 Sunday 12:50 A.M.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I put away the laundry.  With three driers, it is all dry.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/11/10 Saturday 11:55 P.M.  This is the quiet retirement home in the center of busy downtown Greenwich, Connecticut The Mews Greenwich Connecticut

I prepared two more Christmas cards and letters to mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/10 Saturday 11:15 P.M.  I woke up while sleeping, and I ate a sour dough roll with Smart Balance spread.  I finally woke up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 8 P.M..  I ate a sour dough roll with Smart Balance spread.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with two relatives.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started two loads of laundry.  I have about five minutes to go on the wash cycle.  I picked up the mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/10 Saturday 4:10 A.M.  That reminds me the Aga Khan is a Swiss Citizen and a medical doctor with a medical degree from www.harvard.edu , that politically as a Swiss Citizen he is suppose to remain neutral. 

That also reminds me, one can sauté a sliced onion when one makes the cheese burger recipe below, and put the sautéed onions on top of the cheese burger. 

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Today mostly sunny and 41 to 34 degrees Fahrenheit.

Note: <888> 12/11/10 Saturday 3:05 A.M.  Out in the Midwest, they tend not to smoke cigarettes or tobacco.   That means they can afford to spend more money on food.  Also they tend to drive older used vehicles, so they can afford more money for gasoline and vehicle repairs.  Also in the country in the Midwest, everything is further apart, so one has to drive further when one makes a trip.  However, the Midwestern people tend to represent a large selection of United States families whom have been in this country as long as my family as.  They also tend to own property as opposed to being renters.  As tax payers, they tend to have a lot of influence in this country compared to the transient penny press working out of a coffee shop.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/10 Saturday 2:40 A.M.  I think the channels I got with the Starz Cablevision subscription I got have too much violence particularly during the early morning hours.  There are also too many reruns on it.

Not much happening around here as far as I can tell.  I would imagine most of the summer people have gone back down to Florida or where ever else down south they go.  Whether any Canadians have shown up yet is opened to debate.  I have seen men around here wearing shorts like they are use to much colder weather.  Since when I go for walks, I dress warmly in the winter, since I am usually outside for at least two hours.  It is not like I am going from a warm car into a local business.  If one takes the time to dress warmly, one can be comfortable outside in the cold.  However, warmer winter clothes tend to be more expensive than lighter warm weather clothes.  There are so many rich people in Greenwich that do not seem to do much work, that the group of people whom actually do work tend to be overworked, since they are keeping up with their employers' demands as well as their own personal routines.  Since my family has maintained a presence in this area for over 400 years, I have a larger network of contacts than just the local first generation immigrants with money, whom seem to think they know it all.  Of course they might have good contacts from where they came from, but more than likely it does not do them too much good once they are here.  60% of the New York City area is first and second generation immigrants, so possibly they are trying to bring a more modern lifestyle into our area compared with the simple way that we live compared to the more advanced areas, where they came from.  I have traveled a bit around Western Europe, and it is just as quiet at night, as it is around here.  The Southern European countries tend to rest in the hot afternoons, and they tend to be awake later at night.  I have never been in England, but from what I know the Pubs are suppose to close there at 11 P.M., so they must get up early in the morning there.  In New York State the pubs stay open until 4 A.M., but it might indicate that more people work there at night.  Still, when I lived in Manhattan, it was relatively quiet after midnight.  It is so expensive there that people have to work long hours there to afford to survive.  There are rich people there, but some of them seem to prefer to travel with the seasons.  Basically they seem to try to get younger people to work there to support the larger older generation of retired people whom do not like paying the higher wages that more senior individuals might demand.   Still the younger people get experience there, which they might find useful elsewhere.  Since a lot of Manhattan people tend to be thin, they seem to have avoided me, ever since I put on weight.  At 155 pounds, I had a lot of friends.  However, around 1984, I went up to 215 pounds.  Around 1992, I was back down to 170 pounds, and I had more friends, and I was more socially active.  However, once I got involved with personal computers about that time, I ended up spending so much time around the computer that I put on the weight that currently keeps me at 220 pounds.  I am not sure standing in a pub to network with people is a way to lose weight.  There are gymnasiums here, where one can exercise.  However, back in 1976, when I weighed 185 pounds in Greenville, South Carolina, I felt fine, but after the following winter of 1976 to 1977, when my unemployment checks did not arrive in Florida for six months, I went from 185 pounds to 125 pounds, and I stayed under 155 pounds until 1984.  However, I found that when I was thin, I felt better, but larger people would frequently think they could take advantage of me, although I have always been a basically peaceful individual.  At my current weight, I think they are more worried about me breaking the sidewalks, when I walk around.  Still there are a lot of people in this area that are far more larger than myself, they just do not walk around as much as I do.   The largest person I know in this area if he is still alive weighs about 800 pounds, but I have not seen him in about 20 years.  The largest person that I have seen in the last few years was at the Microsoft Conference out in Hauppauge, Long Island at the Hyatt Hotel, and I think he probably weighed about 1200 pounds.   He was only about six feet tall, but he was also about six feet wide.   I guess either Microsoft or the Hyatt Hotel can afford to feed him.   Of course out in the Midwest of America, there are lots of big people, so by Midwestern standards I would me considered smaller than average at my current size of 6 feet tall and 220 pounds.   CIO 

Note: <888> 12/11/10 Saturday 1:15 A.M.  One can use the same hamburger recipe below to cook an 8 to 10 ounce 1.5 inch thick London Broil, but one does add the cheese, and one uses a little bit more olive oil to start off with, and a little bit more soy sauce towards the end, and one flips it in the soy sauce frequently towards the end leaving enough concentrated soy sauce to add as a sauce on top of the London Broil.

I will now water the plants.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/11/10 Saturday 1:00 A.M.  email : Webview Ronald Reagan Christmas Gifts

Note: <888> 12/11/10 Saturday 12:35 A.M.  Before I went out this evening, I put about four ounces of Draino drain cleaner down the bathroom sink, and when I returned I ran hot water down the drain, and I used a toilet plunger to clean out the sink drain more.  I also pulled up the sink plug a bit, so it drains more freely.

I ate the same cheeseburger dinner as last night.

Having gone to college at www.lfc.edu better known as hamburger heaven, since the new money in Lake Forest, Illinois came from the www.mcdonalds.com meat packing and restaurant chain fortune compared to the old money that came from the McCormick, Armour, Swift, and Cudahay farming and meat packing fortunes.  Even one of my classmates family owned Oscar Meyer out in Ohio.

Having cooked and eaten more than my fair share of hamburgers in my life.  I will now try to explain my current cheeseburger recipe.

I take one of the 8 ounce defrosted eye round of beef hamburger about 1.25 inches thick and about five inches in diameter. 

I take an ordinary ten inch frying pan, and I put it on a larger electric burner, and I turned the electric burner to medium high electric heat, and I add two tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil.

After two minutes once the oil is hot, I add the hamburger in the center of the frying pan, and I sear it for one minute, and flip it over, and I season the seared side with garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, and McCormick's Montreal steak seasoning, and after a minute, I flip it back over, and I season the other side.  I flip it every minute for the first six minutes.  I then add three tablespoons of Kikkoman soy sauce and then flip the burger after 30 seconds, and I put two slices of processed white American cheese on it, and after 90 seconds, when most of the soy sauce has evaporated, I put the hamburger on a Kaiser roll with the remaining soy sauce drippings on the cheese, and then I add a generous amount of Heinz ketchup on top of the cheese and the top half of the Kaiser roll.  It is a very good cheese burger from my point of view.  Thus the actual burger cooking time is 8 minutes.  One could adjust the cooking time to one's preference for the degree of medium rare to well done.

I usually eat it with my steamed vegetable mixture of baby red potato cubes with baby carrots and sprigs of broccoli crowns that I steam in a steamer tray with 1.5 inches of water in the pot underneath the steamer tray with lid on the pot, and once the steam is coming out of the pot, I lower it to medium high electric burner heat for 15 minutes total.  I remove the vegetables from the steam tray into a large bowl, and I add dabs of Smart Balance spread and drips of extra virgin olive oil. 

I use the remaining hot water in the pot to make a cup of green tea which I had splenda sweetener to and once the green tea bag has steeped in the cup for about 10 minutes, I squeeze it out, and I remove it, and I add a couple of teaspoons of Borden's lemon juice. 

I usually eat the meal with a cup of my watered down punch which is about 20% punch of cranberry, grape and orange fruit juice with 80% cold filtered water.  I sometimes use cranrapberry or crangrape juice.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/10/10 Friday 10:35 P.M.  I woke up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I ate the remaining half of the rice that I made the other night and a piece of apple pie with watered down punch.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up the mail.  I went downtown, and I picked up a prescription at CVS.  I then walked entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  On the way back up Greenwich Avenue, I used the bathroom at CVS.  They have an inexpensive netbook computer there for $100, and I have a 25% off CVS coupon good through this Sunday.  It runs Windows CE with 256 megs of memory, but I do not really need another computer.  I chatted with a relative on my wireless telephone.  I chatted with two cigarette smokers in front of the Gingerman cafe.   I was told in Rhode Island, there is now a $20 tax on a package of cigarette rolling papers.  I finished my walk.  I sat out for a while.  It was pretty quiet for a Friday night.  I then went by Courtesy Mobil gasoline station, and I bought $7 of self service premium gasoline for $3.539 a gallon for 1.979 gallons for 25.4 miles driving since that past Monday at odometer reading of 68115 miles for 12.835 miles per gallon driving in mostly evening local traffic.  I then returned back to my apartment.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/10/10 Friday 3:20 A.M.  I ate a piece of apple pie with watered down punch.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

It is currently 15.4 degrees Fahrenheit outside my living room window.  Today will be partly cloudy and 32 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/10/10 Friday 2:25 A.M.  Tracking is USPS - Track & Confirm on the order for a new Nokia 2720 - GoPhone® - Prepaid Cell Phone - Wireless from AT&T for $9.99 and .60 tax with free shipping for $10.59 total.

Note: <888> 12/09/10 Thursday 11:50 P.M.  I used a serrated carving knife, and I cut about a one pound strip of tough fat off the eye round of beef that really should not have been there.  I then cut about 1.5 inch thick slices which I cut into 1.5 wide strips and then into about 1.5 inch cubes.  I filled the Cuisine Art about 40% full about 16 ounces, and I ground the beef chunks into hamburger about seven pulses.  I then weighed out 7 to 8 ounce amounts with my kitchen scale, and I formed them into compressed balls which I worked tightly, and then I flattened them on the wooden cutting board about 1.25 inches thick turning and flipping and forming them into hamburger patties.  I then put two into a Rubbermaid container to use for the next two days.  I put the rest into double baby carrot bags, and I sealed both bags compressing the air out.  I then froze the other 11 hamburgers.  I put the six that I had already frozen on the freezer door shelf, and the new 11 frozen hamburgers are on the bottom right front of the freezer stacked up two at a time side by side.  I cleaned the kitchen utensils.  I threw out the strip of fat in the dumpster outside.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/09/10 Thursday 10:20 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought four 9 ounce Glade clean linen spray air fresheners for .88 each for $3.73 total.  I chatted with a relative on the wireless telephone.  I stopped by CVS again, and I used the bathroom.  After I finished my walk, I sat out some more in the 21 degree Fahrenheit weather.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a six pack of fresh Kaiser rolls for $2.49 and a whole eye round of beef for $2.99 a pound for $19.26 for $21.75 total.  I then returned home.  I will now make hamburgers out of the eye round of beef and freeze most of them.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/10 Thursday 7:25 P.M.   I ate a sautéed 8 ounce eye round hamburger with two slices of processed American cheese on a Kaiser roll with ketchup and my usual steam vegetable mixture and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I will now go out for an evening walk.  CIO

!!!!! Note: <888> 12/09/10 Thursday 6:10 P.M.  BBC News - Royal car attacked in protest after MPs' fee vote

!!!!! Note: <888> 12/09/10 Thursday 3:10 P.M.  I chatted with a friend.

www.foxnews.com reports that Prince Charles and the Dutchess of Cornwall are back safely in St. Jame's Palace.  Their car window was broke, and their car was kicked by the student protestors.  CIO  

!!!!! Note: <888> 12/09/10 Thursday 2:50 P.M.  www.foxnews.com just reported on television here that Prince Charles" and Camilla's car was attacked by the student protestors in London, England.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/09/10 Thursday 2:25 P.M.  I woke up at noon.   I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.

To upgrade my AT&T Go Phone, I ordered a new Nokia 2720 - GoPhone® - Prepaid Cell Phone - Wireless from AT&T for $9.99 and .60 tax with free shipping for $10.59 total.  To order it, at check out, one removes the optional service plan.  One can not transfer one's old AT&T Go Phone telephone number to it when ordering, so I will try using my old SIMM card.  The phone has a camera which my old one did not.

I will now make my bed, and I will shower and clean up.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/09/10 Thursday 3:30 A.M.  Biltmore Email Newsletter

Note: <888> 12/09/10 Thursday 1:30 A.M.  My Christmas Letter is at:

http://mikelouisscott.com/xmas2010.mht

http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/xmas2010.mht

CIO

Note: <888> 12/09/10 Thursday 1:00 A.M.  I went out, and I mailed the Christmas cards and letters at the central Greenwich Post Office.  I put rubber bands on three different bunches of mail for local, out of town, and international.  I sat out briefly.  Mac Duffs Pub down on Railroad Avenue was busy.  I returned home.  When I started the Audi on a cold night, when I went out, and it was 25 degrees Fahrenheit, it started up right away.  The battery is two years old in it.  One tip however, particularly on cold days, when starting the Audi, but also all the time, when starting it, one does not press the gasoline accelerator, and it seems to start right up that way.  Repeat, one does not press down on the gasoline pedal when starting the Audi. 

I will now make and eat a 21 ounce Stouffer's frozen lasagna with tomato meat sauce, which I will put some grated parmesan and Romano cheese on, and I will eat it with a glass of watered down punch, and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/08/10 Wednesday 11:55 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I did my Christmas cards, and I have them already to mail.  I have 28 to mail.  The Epson StylusColor C120 is out of ink, but I was able to print out the envelopes with the Minolta PagePro 1250W laser printer.  I also am sending a color Christmas letter with the cards.  I printed out the color Christmas letter with the Samsung CLP-315 color laser printer.  I used 34 forever stamps to stamp them.  Each envelope is one ounce.  I will now go out an mail them at the central Greenwich post office.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/08/10 Wednesday 6:50 P.M.  I watched television until 3 A.M..  I had a telephone call from a friend at 8 A.M..  I finally woke up at 2 P.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 5 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I ate a piece of apple pie with Cool Whip.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage, and I picked up the mail.

Today is the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's death.  Thirty years ago, I was living on West 74th street in Manhattan just east of Riverside Park.  I went out for a walk that evening with my roommate's white German shepard dog, and I walked the dog by the Dakota apartment building where John Lennon lived on West 72nd street, and I walked the dog through Central Park, and down to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where Ronald Reagan was staying on his first visit to Manhattan after having been elected President.  The Secret Service took pictures of the White German Shepard with a Polaroid Camera, since the owner's father was from Santa Rosa, California.  On the way back through Central Park, I noticed a commotion around the Dakota apartment building, so I fellowed the white German Shepard down West 71st letting it lead me away from trouble.  The following morning, I saw on the news that John Lennon had been shot.  The apartment building where I lived was just west of the Newport Jazz festival headquarters on West 74th street.

I will now make up a fresh batch of punch.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/07/10 Tuesday 11:30 P.M.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Mostly sunny and 31 to 21 degrees Fahrenheit tomorrow.

I chatted with a friend.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/07/10 Tuesday 11:15 P.M.  I ate half of a batch of Michael Louis Scott's Microwave Oven Rice Recipe , and I also seasoned the whole batch with a tablespoon of soy sauce, Italian seasoning, and Old Bay Seasoning.  I refrigerated the other half.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/07/10 Tuesday 9:55 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  I threw out the garbage.  I went by the Stop and Shop.  I bought a dozen large Eggland eggs expire December 21, 2010 for $3.19, a 16 ounce package of Smart Balance spread for $2.89, four Stouffer's 21 ounce meat and tomato lasagnas for $2.50 each, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, fresh Chiquita bananas for .49 a pound for $1.01, broccoli crowns for .88 a pound for .96 for $21.04 total.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by CVS, and I toured the store.  I chatted with a relative on my wireless phone.  I stopped by CVS again, and I used the bathroom.  I then finished my walk.  I sat out for a while on a cold night, but we all know it will get colder here, so it is really what one is use to.  I then returned home.  I put away my groceries.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/07/10 Tuesday 7:05 P.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs and four strips of fried thick bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch.

I will now go downtown to do some grocery shopping at the Stop and Shop.  Since it is cold outside, I probably will not walk downtown, but I might sit out briefly.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/07/10 Tuesday 6:10 P.M.  BBC - Earth News - Mountain gorilla numbers have increased, census reveals

Note: <888> 12/07/10 Tuesday 6:00 P.M.  It was a false alarm on the first floor north.  One fire engine arrived, and the fire men reset the alarm.  I moved the Audi to its usual place.  I chatted with neighbors.  The Greenwich Housing Authority night person also arrived to reset the alarm.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/07/10 Tuesday 5:35 P.M.  The Fire Alarm bell has been going off for about the last 15 minutes.  The Alarm company has been working on the system this week and last week.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/07/10 Tuesday 5:15 P.M.  I threw out the garbage.  I picked up the mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/07/10 Tuesday 4:10 P.M.  I woke up at 10 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  They were suppose to have a random apartment inspection by the State of Connecticut inspector today, but I guess they did not select me, because nobody showed up.  I could hear some people prowling outside my apartment, but they did not ring my door bell.  I took a nap in the Ethan Allen recliner.  I watched some television.  I chatted with a local walker.  I ate a piece of apple pie with Cool Whip. 

The order from here Meritline.com Daily Deal that I ordered the Mygica A680B USB HDTV Tuner for $16.99 with coupon code "MLC201115112930NL1" with free shipping for $16.99 total arrived.  I put it on the IBM ThinkCenter M52 8213 computer along with the Artec high definition antenna.  It works just fine.  I installed the Windows Media Center update on it.

I am a bit pooped from walking the last two days, so I guess I will stay home today.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO     

Note: <888> 12/07/10 Tuesday 12:20 A.M.  I ate a piece of apple pie with cool whip.

!!! Note: <888> 12/06/10 Monday 10:40 P.M.  If you can afford AT&T data wireless time of $50 a month for 1 gigabyte of data or $60 for 3 gigabytes of data and $10 for each additional gigabyte of data, you might want to buy this bargain $39.99 with free shipping Amazon.com: Sierra Wireless AT&T Lightning USB Aircard Modem: Electronics and http://www.att.com/buyasession/.

I stopped by the AT&T store on Greenwich Avenue to tell them about this bargain today.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/10 Monday 9:35 P.M.  One can verify their Connecticut vehicle registration expiration date here Connecticut Registration Verification .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/10 Monday 9:00 P.M.  I told you, it also gets cold down south Brrrrrr! Shelters to open, wind chill to make it feel like 20s for next two nights » TCPalm.com .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/10 Monday 8:50 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.

Note: <888> 12/06/10 Monday 7:40 P.M.  I woke up at 10 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 2 P.M..  I ate a piece of apple pie with cool whip.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I chatted with a relative.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with the building custodian.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.   I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center midway through my walk.  I toured CVS.  I found a remote keyless entry device that I gave to the front desk at the Greenwich Police department.  I gave a quarter to a youth whom asked for a quarter.  I went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a couple of the staff.  I noticed when leaving the Greenwich Library, the fire brigade was outside the Barcelona restaurant across the street from the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue.  I returned home.  I picked up the mail.  I ate the same dinner as the last couple of nights.  

Note: <888> 12/06/10 Monday 2:10 A.M.  I noticed this evening, when I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and I viewed Long Island from across Long Island Sound that there was a bright blue light a little bit further east than Oyster Bay possibly around Cold Spring Harbor.  I am not sure what sort of nautical light that would be, but I do not recall seeing it before.

Not much really happens too much around the waterfront in the winter, since a lot of the waterfront people seem to be from down south.  Some of the Nordic people around here like Ice Sailing, but I suppose one has to be fit and have a wet suit for that.

Since I do not have Nordic language skills, I can only converse with those whom have managed to learn a few words of English, and they are usually confused by what I chat about.  Of course I have never been a good listener, since when somebody mentions something to me, I replay to that subject based on my experience.

It would seem to me, that there are probably still a lot of people around here, but particularly in the winter, they seem to enjoy being on a daytime schedule, and one does not seem to see that many people awake at night and in the early morning hours.

With all of the activities going on in this area in the daytime, I suppose people would find the night time and early morning hours somewhat boring compared to their more active lives in the daytime.  Still if one likes quite and peace, the night time offers plenty of that around here.

I do not drive that far anymore, since on a limited budget with the high price of gasoline anymore, it would be too expensive to drive elsewhere.  One of the few times I drove up to New Canaan, a few years ago, I noticed the Connecticut people way out in the country are much more opinionated and at Starbucks in New Canaan, they were expressing viewpoints which would imply prejudice.  Since we have so many New York City people around here, we tend to get a much more diverse group of people compared to the more remote regions of Connecticut.  Still the old Yankees have their viewpoints based on their experiences. 

Very few people around here seem to know anything about the Midwest of America, and here they do not express any interest in the Midwest, since I suppose they are afraid to travel into the interior of America where life is simpler and cheaper.

We probably get flight personnel from the Midwest around here, but they probably stick to themselves.

I think I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will either go to bed or rest for a while depending on how long I sleep.

Flurries today and 35 to 27 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/06/10 Monday 1:40 A.M.  I ate the same dinner as last night.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/06/10 Monday 12:15 A.M.  I went out after the last note.  I threw out the garbage.  I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two eight packs of Stop and Shop hot dog buns for $1.69 each and a 59 ounce container of Florida Natural orange juice for $3 for $6.38 total.  I went by the Chase Bank ATM on West Putnam Avenue just West of Greenwich Avenue.  I then went by CVS.  I bought four 5.3 ounce tubes of CVS Pringle style sour cream and onion potato chips and two barbecue for $1 each for $6 total.  I used the bathroom at CVS.  I then went further downtown.  I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  The train station was opened at 10 P.M. at night.  After my walk, I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road.  The green port-o-potty is no longer there.  There were not as many lights on the north shore of Long Island as there has been in the past.  I then went by the Courtesy Mobil gasoline station at 623 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $12 of self service premium for $3.479 a gallon for 3.45 gallons for 34.9 miles driving since Friday November 26, 2010 at odometer reading of 68089 miles for 10.116 miles per gallon driving in mostly local traffic.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  CIO    

Note: <888> 12/05/10 Sunday 8:45 P.M.  I woke up at 9 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I went back to bed until 3 P.M..  I ate a piece of apple pie with Cool Whip.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M., when I chatted with a friend.  I ate two hotdogs on buns with Dijon mustard and ketchup and 1/4th a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringles style sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I made my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.

I made 117 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Norwegian shag pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com .  CIO     

End of Scott's Notes week of 12/05/10:

Note: <888> 12/05/10 Sunday 12:45 A.M.  Meanwhile out here in the boon docks of Greenwich, Connecticut not much is happening.

I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go back to bed soon.

Sunny today and 35 to 21 degrees Fahrenheit, so it a'int warm.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/05/10 Sunday 12:15 A.M.  Of course up in Norway, they have a different perspective Webcam map of Norway [Webcams in Norway] and Webcams in Norway  CIO

Note: <888> 12/04/10 Saturday 11:55 P.M.  I guess some people can still afford to drink alcohol Live Duval Street Web Cam in Key West, Florida :: Sloppy Joe's Bar ::  CIO

Note: <888> 12/04/10 Saturday 11:15 P.M.  Out west in California in the last 1970s, the only work I was able to find briefly was delivering telephone books for a couple of weeks.  They also tend to give the jobs to the local people.   Around here, I am grandfathered in as the elder guru of the internet around www.ibm.com .  Since Armonk, New York is too far away to commute to in all of the traffic up dangerous King street, I have not applied for a job there since about 1974, although I have seen a lot of IBM people over the years.  When I was living in exile in Chicago after www.lfc.edu in the fall of 1972, I even lived next door to a 40 story IBM building in downtown Chicago briefly with my roommate from the Farm, before I moved into the more POSH neighborhood at 31 East Elm Street, and I quickly went bankrupt, and I returned back to Weston, Massachusetts where my family lived while we were involved with www.polaroid.com .  Since not much was happening in Boston back then, my family moved back to Greenwich, Connecticut in June of 1973, and it has been an odyssey ever since.

Note: <888> 12/04/10 Saturday 11:00 P.M.  They are not very friendly to poor northern people down south.  They get so many snow birds showing up down south in the winter that the local population of retired people living on social security have a hard time dealing with all of their needs.  I was only able to get a job briefly as a minimum wage dishwasher in Florida in the mid 1970s despite all of my advanced education.  The locals tend to give the jobs to other local people, so there is no point looking for work down south if you happen to be unemployed up north.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/04/10 Saturday 10:55 P.M.  I ate three 5/16th inch thick slices of cold eye round of beef with horseradish and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce on them along with my usual steamed vegetable mix with Smart Balance spread and olive oil on the vegetables and a glass of watered down punch a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/04/10 Saturday 9:50 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.

Not much goes on at night in the suburbs unlike in the City, since people in the suburbs tend to be more active in the day time.  I guess one can not shop and rake leaves in the suburbs at night.  Of course a lot of people in the suburbs drive into Manhattan at night, or at least those that can afford it.  However, the New York City people seem to be oblivious to the people from the suburbs, since a lot of New York City people are daytime people too.  Of course there are a small group of people whom do manage to keep active at night.   Having been on a night schedule for many years, I know in the old days, they use to write the newspapers at night.  In the office environment in the City, a lot of the computers are also maintained at night as well as a lot of other maintenance goes on at night.  The electric company obviously does a lot of maintenance at night, particularly when there is severe weather.  Nobody ever networks with me at night, since I guess they do not regard what I do at night as being important.  I guess the over fed rich people dining out at night is more important than what communications people do at night. 

People really do not know how to communicate, since they spend a lot of time watching canned entertainment on television.  I guess a lot of people read at night.  Possibly some writers also write at night. 

There is not much going on Greenwich Avenue at night, but a few people sitting in Starbucks surfing the internet and looking bored.  Obviously if they had any money they would be surfing the internet from Manhattan, but there are a lot of suburban people whom like leading boring lifestyles as opposed to paying for night life in New York City. 

It is the nature of the news business when there is nothing going on, one can report on other people's news.

I know a lot of the teenagers spend a lot of time at computer internet gaming, so possibly a lot more teenagers are doing that.

Some people are afraid to be seeing drinking alcohol near where they live, so they travel to other places to have a drink.

There are people in the travel business in this area, since Westchester County, New York airport is nearby.  I use to go to pubs to see what was going on in this area, since I figured if people could afford to spend money on alcohol, they must be making money off some sort of activity in this area.  I guess some people just drink to escape from reality.

It is probably too cold to go fishing around here this time of year.  At age 60, I am no longer eligible for the Freezing Norwegian Patrol, so possibly some younger people are still out on Greenwich Avenue keeping an eye out for freezing visitors.  Possibly we could import some Canadians, since this area would seem warm to them.

About the only thing I use to do was drive to New Canaan, Connecticut and have a cup of coffee at Starbucks there and walk the downtown area of New Canaan, so maybe bored people from New Canaan come down here and have a cup of coffee at Starbucks at walk Greenwich Avenue.  Of course, if you like walking, one can do a lot of walking in New York City, but that is more costly, and it tends not to be too relaxing.  

My last two friends in New York City are not actually not from New York City, but they live off the coast of Georgia, so in retirement, they like all of the excitement in New York City.  Maybe they should put a Kentucky Fried chicken store in their neighborhood, so they would feel more at home. 

The first www.mcdonalds.com arrived in Greenwich about the time I moved here in 1961.  Of course, in the 1950s there was a very busy McDonalds in Decatur, Alabama, and it even had the Golden Arches.  Back then a hamburger with 15 cents, French fries were 15 cents and a www.coke.com was 15 cents, so for 45 cents one could have a modest meal.  They have gotten so expensive that I can no longer afford to eat there anymore.  I have noticed that some of my wealthier friends whom would never be seen eating at McDonalds have started eating there since the Obama recession has come into full swing.

The items that I eat at home are more nourishing, and they tend to be cheaper, since I know how to cook. 

The best deal for quick food I used to know in New York City when I lived there was the delicatessen at 52nd street and Second Avenue would sell a liverwurst sandwich for $2.50 back in 1973.  There was also a Souvlaki stand at University Place just north of 13th street, where a Soulvaki cost about $2.  Backing in 1973, a gourmet meal was Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips for about $3.50 or a roast been sandwich from the delicatessen at 86th street just east of Madison Avenue for about $4. 

Thus food wise, I think I am doing better off in Greenwich, Connecticut as opposed to starving in New York City.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/04/10 Saturday 8:45 P.M.  BBC News - Tungurahua volcano prompts evacuation in Ecuador

Note: <888> 12/04/10 Saturday 8:30 P.M.  I put away the laundry.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/04/10 Saturday 7:25 P.M.  I have 30 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/04/10 Saturday 6:45 P.M.  I woke up at 4 P.M..  I ate two hotdogs on buns with Dijon mustard and ketchup and 1/4th a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringles style sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 15 minutes to go on the wash cycle.  I picked up the mail.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/04/10 Saturday 12:20 P.M.  I will now go back to sleep for a while.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/04/10 Saturday 12:10 P.M.  I gave a neighbor four cigarettes.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.

I chatted with AT&T Go Phone customer service again.  The data plans are only good for 30 days and after that one renews them or loses the remaining data.  Their rate without the data plan is 1 cent a kilobyte.

I turned the heat up a bit in the apartment now that it is colder out.

At www.cl-p.com the new bill is $151.64 for 31 days in November 2010 for 814 kWh or 26.25 kWh per day with an average temperature of 44.7 degrees Fahrenheit.

For November 2009, it was $149.42 for 34 days and 761 kWh and 22.38 kWh per day with an average temperature of 48.4 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/04/10 Saturday 10:30 A.M.  I woke up at 8:30 A.M..  At 9 A.M., I called up the AT&T Go Phone customer service.  They refunded me $20 on my AT&T Go Phone account, so I now have $64 on it, until January 20, 2011, when I have to refill it.

They told me they charge something like a dollar a kilobyte of megabyte for data which is way too expensive.   They AT&T Go Phone does have a data packages for $4.99 for 1 MB and $19.99 for 100 MB.

Note: <888> 12/04/10 Saturday 4:15 A.M.  I was able to get the AT&T Communications Manager version 6.8.19 to work on the two Dell Latitude D410 laptops.  It also supports WiFi from the AT&T card which might be useful unlike the other two Communications Managers that I tried. 

I only have $44 left on my AT&T Go Phone, so I probably used about $42 in trying out the card.  I will chat with AT&T about getting a refund.  The charge is for "GPRS".  I put the simm card back in the AT&T Go Phone.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

I will eat a piece of apple pie with cool whip before going to bed.

Mostly sunny and 40 to 28 degrees Fahrenheit today.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/04/10 Saturday 3:15 A.M.  Although it works, one should not use the AT&T Go Phone simm card with the AT&T 3G PCMCIA card.  On my AT&T Go phone account, for a three minute call, they charged me $10.08, and for a 12 minute call, they charged me $24.65 and another $2.34 charge for a shorter call. 

Also the version 7 of the AT&T Communications Manager does not work with the AT&T 3G PCMCIA card. 

Version 6.5 works on the Panasonic Toughbook CF 29.  However, when I tried to install it on the Dell Latitude D410 laptops, I got an Error 1326: with a message it could not retrieve a file.

Thus there is probably no point using the AT&T 3G PCMCIA card, unless I have 3G service, which I can not afford.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/03/10 Friday 11:10 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.

The good news is that the Newegg.com - AT&T 3G PCMCIA Ultra Unlocked GSM Data/Air Card - Cell Phone Accessories for $9.99 with free shipping works with my AT&T Go Phone Simm card.  It did not come with its own simm card.

On the Panasonic Toughbook CF-29, I removed the Belkin wireless PCMCIA card, and I started up Windows XP Professional.  I installed the AT&T communications dialer software from the CD.  I then rebooted.  I installed my AT&T Go Phone simm card in the AT&T 3G PCMCIA card, and once XP had booted up, I installed it in the PCMCIA slot on the Panasonic Toughbook CF 29, and it automatically installed the drivers.

In the AT&T Communications Dialer, I edited the dialer to include a new AT&T internet dialer.

I setup the connection with this information:

service type: packet
Diled number: 8998881#
access point: wap.cingular
username: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
password: CINGULAR1

It did not work at first, so I disabled the McAfee firewall, and it then worked and went online to AT&T wireless, when I pressed "connect".   When I enabled the McAfee firewall again, McAfee prompted me as to what type of network to set the AT&T dialer up as, and I selected "public".   However, at 25 cents a minute, I will not be using it very much.   Still it is an option in an emergency for an internet connection.

I will now set it up on the two Dell Latitude D410 laptop computers.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/03/10 Friday 9:00 P.M.  They now have a Christmas tree and wreath stand at the parking lot of the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue and Valley road on the east side of the parking lot. 

The Greenwich Hardware store on West Putnam Avenue next to McDonalds also sells Christmas trees.

Note: <888> 12/03/10 Friday 8:25 P.M.  After dinner, I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.   I watered the plants.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/03/10 Friday 6:25 P.M.  I woke up at 5 P.M..  I chatted with a friend.  I made my bed.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I picked up the mail.

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I will now cook the eye round of beef, and I will eat two 7/16th inch thick slices and refrigerate the rest.  I will eat it with my usual steamed vegetable mixture with Smart Balance spread and olive oil and watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/03/10 Friday 1:40 P.M.  I ate a 18.8 ounce can of Campbell's New England clam chowder with a bulky roll with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch.  I will now shut down the Windows 7 computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/03/10 Friday 1:05 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.

I made three copies of the new registration and the registration receipt, and I put them with my Audi folder in the bedroom.  I put the new registration and a copy of the registration receipt in the paper holder in the glove box of the Audi.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/03/10 Friday 12:25 P.M.  I tried to go online to http://www.dmvregren.ct.gov/ to renew my Audi registration, but the web site would not work with my primary Windows 7 computer.  However, it did work with the FIC server Vista machine, so I have now renewed the Audi registration for $85 until January 20, 2013.  The center part of the renewal form that they sent me recently is the New Registration.  I will put it in the Audi along with a copy of my renewal receipt shortly.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/03/10 Friday 11:30 A.M.  I woke up at 6 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.   I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage.  I brought my folding cart with me to the Audi.  I cleaned the frost off the windows.  I went downtown, and I went by the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue.  I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Havemayer Place, and I waited a half hour for them to open at 9 A.M..  I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then went by the Senior and the Arts center to use the bathroom.  I then went by the central Greenwich Post Office, and I bought forty evergreen forever stamps for 44 cents each for $8.80 total.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a package of six day old rolls for $2, a 16 ounce package of Smart Balance spread for $2.89, a 21 ounce Stouffer's frozen lasagna with tomato and meat for $2.50, two 12 ounce generic honey for $2.49 each, three Ocean Spray 64 ounce cranraspberry juice for $2.50 each, three Ocean Spray 64 ounce crangrape juice for $2.50 each, a 48 ounce Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal for $4.99, a 8 ounce Stop and Shop grated parmesan and Romano cheese for $2.99, a 10 ounce Kikkoman soy sauce $2.29, two quart jars of Vlassic kosher dill spears for $2 each, a top round eye round roast for $3.99 a pound for $10.41, buy one get one free of 16 ounce Hormel maple bacon for $5.99 both, fresh Chiquita bananas for .49 a pound for .94 for $58.98 total.  I then put the groceries in the rear of the Audi.  I then used the bathroom at the Stop and Shop.  I then bought buy one get one free of 24.5 ounce Entenmann's fresh home style apple pies for $5.99 both for $5.99 total.  I then returned home.  I used my cart to bring up my groceries.  I put away my groceries.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/02/10 Thursday 10:15 P.M.  If one has spare money, one can order the 2011 RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY CALENDAR for $12.95 less a $1.30 discount with coupon code "Reagan40" for $11.65 and $9 shipping for $20.65 total, or use the $50 purchase promotion below and get it for free.  I have to pay my Connecticut automobile registration this December of $85 to renew it, so I will be a little low on funds, so I will not be able to order it.  I have enough calendars at the moment.  I am not getting England calendars this year, because they do not sell one with a lot of different pictures for each month, but only one picture per month.  Such is life.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Mostly cloudy tomorrow and 40 to 32 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/02/10 Thursday 9:30 P.M.  email : Webview free Ronald Reagan calendar with $50 purchase

Note: <888> 12/02/10 Thursday 9:05 P.M.  I chatted with two relatives.  I ate three scrambled eggs and four strips of fried thick bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/02/10 Thursday 7:00 P.M.  I went out after the last note.  I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I went by the Chase Bank just west of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue.  I then went by CVS.  I picked up a prescription.  I bought buy one get one free of CVS Flaxseed oil 250 softgels 1000 mg for $19.99 both less $4 off a $20 purchase CVS internet coupon for $15.99 total.  I then went to my 3 P.M. appointment.  I next went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by CVS again on the way up Greenwich Avenue.  I stopped by the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue.  I chatted with a couple of locals.  I sat out at various locations.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I toured the ground floor.  I chatted with two of the reference librarians.   I then returned home.  I picked up the mail.  I got my rent statement from the Greenwich Housing Authority, so I will pay it tomorrow.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/02/10 Thursday 1:20 P.M.  I ate two hotdogs on buns with Dijon mustard and ketchup and 1/4th a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringles style sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.

I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will get ready to go out for my 3 P.M. appointment.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/02/10 Thursday 11:20 A.M.  I woke up at 7 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.   I showered, and I cleaned up.  Donald www.trump.com announced on www.foxnews.com that he will announce in March 2011, whether or not he will run for President of the United States of America.  He looks a bit overweight like he has been eating too many beef steaks, so I guess he needs to diet a bit and possibly join Weight Watchers.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.   I made 129 Premier Lights 100 MM filter Peter Stokkebye Norwegian shag pipe tobacco cigarettes while watching www.foxnews.com .  CIO    

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 10:20 P.M.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will go to bed soon.

Sunny tomorrow and 41 to 31 degrees Fahrenheit.

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

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 9:30 P.M.  I chatted with a relative.

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Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 8:00 P.M.  BBC News - How do you survive in the coldest place on Earth?

One can lose 50% of their body heat through their head in the winter, so a smart person always wear a knit cap or warm hat to stay warm in the winter. 

Starting tonight, it is suppose to get colder here Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 7:45 P.M.  I ate three scrambled eggs and four strips of fried thick bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and a glass of watered down punch and a cup of green tea with splenda and lemon juice.

Not much happens around here anymore, since by the end of November at the end of the hurricane season, all of the rich people have gone back down south for the winter leaving behind the poorer year round people whom try to eek out a living in this area, when not much is really happening.  Of course the young people here watch so much television here from elsewhere, they live under the false allusion that something is going on here, when as far as I can tell not much is really happening.  A lot of intellectual Greenwich, Connecticut people are in the publishing business, so by what they write, they hope to make money by convincing other people of their viewpoints including investments they hope might go up in value for their profit.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 6:05 P.M.  I rested, and I watched a bit about computers.  I chatted with a neighbor about computers and the internet.

I ate a bulky roll with Smart Balance spread.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 4:05 P.M.  I will now shut down the primary Windows 7 computer, and I will take a nap.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 3:35 P.M.  Be king for a day in Edinburgh

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 3:05 P.M.  I picked up the mail.  I chatted with a neighbor.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 2:40 P.M.  I ate two hotdogs on buns with Dijon mustard and ketchup and 1/4th a 5.3 ounce tube of CVS Pringles style sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down punch.

I will now pick up the mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 2:10 P.M.  I chatted with a relative. 

The order for Buy.com - McAfee Internet Security 2011 3 User 2 Year Protection for $19.99 with free shipping arrived.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 1:35 P.M.  When I was up in Oslo, Norway in February 1983, I noticed outside the Royal Norwegian Palace kongehuset.no - English , the local youth were smoking marijuana outside the Royal Palace by the botanical green house.  It was explained to me by one of the Royal Norwegian Guards that in the Royal Norwegian Navy, when the sailors run out of good Virginia tobacco, they smoke rope made from hemp Rope, Hemp, Cannibis, Marijuna in North America Expose  .  CIO

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 1:05 P.M.  List of Dual Purpose Pipe Tobacco Brands Attention: PACT Act / Tobacco Shipping Changes Details Here : Rollyourown.com, One Stop RYO Tobacco Shop  CIO

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 12:45 P.M.  If you can not find your brand of Peter Stokkebye pipe tobacco to use in cigarette injector machines at Peter Stokkebye Bulk Tobacco , they have it here at a more expensive price Peter Stokkebye Bulk 5 lb Bags | Pipe Tobacco

From Villiger Stokkebye International Cigarette Tobaccos , only those pipe tobaccos with similar names might be suitable for cigarette injector machines.

RYO Cigarettes | Roll Your Own Cigarette Tobacco | RYO Revolution has this link for cigarette pipe tobacco brands Pipe Tobacco for Roll Your Own Cigarettes | RYO Revolution  CIO

The Peters Stokkebye Danish Export, Virginia Long Cut, Turkish Export, and Norwegian Shag seem to be hard to find, since I guess a lot of cigarettes smokers are buying it.  However, the Amsterdam blend works in the Premier cigarette injector machine, once it is put through the Cuisine Art cut it finer.

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http://mikelouisscottcom.cv.siteprotect.net/ryo.htm CIO

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 11:55 A.M.  I mentioned yesterday that the Peter Stokkebye Amsterdam Pipe Tobacco with the Premier 100 filter cigarette tube with the tobacco shredded in a Cuisine Art tastes like an American Eagle cigarette.  However, it actually tastes more like a Dunhill Light filter cigarette which is a very expensive cigarette.  It only draws about half as fast as the Peter Stokkebye Norwegian shag Pipe Tobacco with the Premier 100 filter cigarette tube with the tobacco as is.  Thus it is a much slower smoking cigarette.  It is also an All American cigarette with only Virginia and Kentucky tobacco.  CIO  

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 11:40 A.M.  Just to be on the safe side, I have three extra regular smoke detectors in the apartment.  One is in the living room, one in the hallway, and one in the bedroom.  The 9 volt alkaline batteries in them were two years old, so I put three new Duracell alkaline 9 volt batteries in them, and I tested them, and they work just fine.  I tested the old batteries with my battery tester, and they are in the low end of green or just barely good.  I stored the old 9 volt alkaline batteries in the plastic bag containing old 9 volt batteries on the bedroom sideboard shelf.   I will now change the calendars in the apartment.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 11:20 A.M.  On rainy days in Greenwich, Connecticut which we used to have a lot of in the past, we traditionally stay inside and work at home.  Since at age 60, I have arthritis, I do not usually go out on rainy days.

Not much happening in terms of two way communications on the internet.  I guess most people whom use the internet do not know how to type, so they do not feel like communicating.  Still there is plenty to read on the internet.  However, the general public although it reads a lot of free content, does not feel like paying writers for the content that they produce, thus the overall quantity and quality of free information on the internet tends to go down, although there are more users than ever.  My web server does not have enough traffic to justify putting in advertising links, although I do promote a number of other web sites.  Basically my viewpoint is from running my own computer laboratory based on my experience, not the experience of someone that might have a larger budget and more content to offer.

Still there is a niche for everyone on the internet, although in my particular case I do not have any products or services that I am trying to sell.  I think more like a reference librarian based on my experience and not the experience of somebody sitting in a Manhattan coffee shop whom thinks they know everything.  Basically sitting in a coffee shop all day drinking coffee and surfing the internet can be a very expensive past time, unless one has a certain focus that might be relevant to the particular coffee shop.  Younger people like to travel though, so they tend to end up as coffee shop lobbyists for what ever particular cause they may have to promote. 

Since I have only been into Manhattan three times in 20 years, I do not have much current relevant experience to Manhattan.  I did read an article in New York magazine yesterday while waiting for my appointment.  It was about New York University in Greenwich Village and their plans to expand the Greenwich Village campus there and elsewhere.  It mentioned that there are not 40,000 students on the Greenwich Village campus, so more than likely there are not that many older people down in Greenwich Village anymore besides a few tourists trying to relive the good old downtown days.

If one can not afford to like in Manhattan, there is very little point in trying to promote it out here, when we have plenty of alternative goods and services in our local area. 

Some people with money can afford to have a lot of friends, but whether the cost benefit of a lot of friends is really worth it, when it comes to surviving in the real world is opened to debate.  A lot of sales people try to promote their goods and services in Manhattan hoping to make a profit, but from my experience in Manhattan, the people that live there are just as cheap as the people in the suburbs.

Still we get a lot of traffic out here from New York City, so the local business people whom service that group of travelers tends to make a modest living out here.

They inspected the central building smoke detector in my apartment along with the emergency pull cords.

There is one alternative for killing time in Greenwich on a rainy day which is to go by the Greenwich Library.  We tend not to get as many visitors there on rainy days.  CIO   

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 10:40 A.M.  I went downstairs, and I chatted with a neighbor.  They are testing the alarm system in the building, but they still have not tested my apartment.  CIO

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 9:55 A.M.  I chatted with a relative.  I printed out two copies of the Microsoft Money 2007 November 2010 Income Versus Spending report.  I chatted with a relative.  I faxed a copy of the report to the interested relative.

I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread, a 50% to 50% glass of punch and cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with splenda sweetener and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I will now shower and clean up.  CIO 

Note: <888> 12/01/10 Wednesday 8:25 A.M.  I woke up at 7 A.M.. 

I paid my bills for www.cablevision.com Digital Cable Television, Optimum Online Cable Modem, and Optimum Voice Long Distance, and my www.cl-p.com electricity bill, and my www.verizon.com local telephone bill.

The alarm company is suppose to inspect the emergency pull cords and smoke detectors today.  CIO