12/31/17 Sunday 11:55 P.M. My family once had a new Ford Country Squire station wagon here in Greenwich and the Boston area. However, with over a half dozen times at the Ford garage, it had noisy valves. I reheated and ate the other half of the Knorr chicken flavored rice and pasta, and I ate it with two White Castle cheeseburgers and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I think being on low income and working with the internet and computers, I try to use it all to micromanage my finances. However, if I ever quit paying $202.75 a month to Cablevision and buying computer accessories, I would probably eat better and have a more active lifestyle. However, it what I have learned to do since 1989. To be honest as far as I know my primary web site only gets about 25 hits a week half of which are mine, so I do not think anyone is really looking at my rather tedious web site activity. I think on New Years Eve 1974 or 1975, Fred Von Mierers had me take Helen Kress Williams from Oyster Bay, Long Island to a big New Years Eve party in a second story lobby of a building overlooking Times Square. We founds a parking space nearby and viewed it all from the indoor comfort of the second story lobby viewing point. I think that is the only time I went to New Year's Eve in Times Square. I normally like avoiding crowds. I did show up in a large crowd for the Tall Ships in New York Harbor on the Fourth of July 1976 and the following day when Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip toured https://www.bloomingdales.com/ on Third Avenue. After that we called Third Avenue, "Queen's Boulevard". Happy New Years! CIO
12/31/17 Sunday 11:15 P.M. I ordered https://www.itechdeals.com/2-pack-8-pin-to-usb-6-foot-2m-cables-for-iphone-5-5s-ipad-mini-ipad-air-free-s-h.html?utm_campaign=6+foot+8pin+cable+12%2F31%2F17+%28MgFVML%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=General+Subscription for $6.99 with free shipping.
https://www.jacquielawson.com/rm.asp?cardid=3477207&page=everyday
I will now go out into the reindeer land. CIO
12/31/17 Sunday 10:35 P.M. I have had a 20 year bottle of Moet and Chandon champagne https://www.moet.com/prehome for over 20 years, but it is not cold. I am not sure if it is still good through, since I had it refrigerated for 10 years or so, and then at room temperature the rest of the time. However, if I left it outside in the Volvo wagon for about an hour, it would probably be cold. CIO
12/31/17 Sunday 10:00 P.M. https://www.amazon.com/Astrophysics-People-Hurry-deGrasse-Tyson-ebook/dp/B01MAWT2MO/ref=pd_zg_rss_ts_kstore_154606011_8&tag=bestdeals016-20 I will now venture out in the cold weather again. There is no point going out downtown, because on Sunday night www.starbucks.com , www.cvs.com , and the Stop and Shop all close at 10 P.M.. Also it is 8 degrees Fahrenheit outside at the moment http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.04904598378624&lon=-73.62304748575207&site=all&smap=1#.WkmjZjdryUl . For the energy to drive in the cold, one can keep a warmer apartment. Also in this cold weather, if one had any mechanical probles, your goose would be cooked. Also batteries on devices like Iphone do not last as long. C'est tres froid, n'est pas? CIO
12/31/17 Sunday 9:25 P.M. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . It is one of my interior decorating schemes. Instead of buying new stuff at Christmas time and wasting a whole lot of money needed for the upcoming very cold winter; one should just move the old stuff around to make it look it is new. I used to cover a lot of the bars on the West Side of Manhattan, where a lot of the people from New Jersey would frequent, and even a lot of the people in those places thought I was a Ford family member, and Ford used to have a manufacturing facility across the Hudson River in New Jersey, so I saw a lot of Ford employees in the old days. Ford also has a Marine division, so they show up in the tropical waters of Florida. Ford used to also have a military division, but I am not sure that exists anymore. CIO
12/31/17 Sunday 8:30 P.M. This is supposed to be the main Ford family house in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/2v2HbrJB8ciIYNG0rnnoAZz2KtU=/0x0:800x600/1200x900/filters:focal(0x0:800x600)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/48172015/Edsel_20Eleanor_20Ford_20House_20.0.jpg . The Reed House on Clapboard Ridge Road in Greenwich used to look a bit like this. Myles McGough knew one of the Reed daughters, so I once visited there. It is a very nice house. CIO
12/31/17 Sunday 8:25 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I let a visitor in. I chatted with a neighbor. I went outside again. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. In the old days, a lot of people told me I looked like Peter Jennings of A.B.C. news. I even had a friend at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut whose father was the president of A.B.C.. I also had two individuals the year ahead and behind me who were members of the www.ford.com family who also went to www.lfc.edu with me. I used to see somebody around Greenwich, Connecticut that looked like Henry Ford driving a burgundy Jaguar with Connecticut license plate "ROYAL". I know Margaret Thatcher used to live in Henry Ford's apartment in London. When I was once parking at the Viking Hotel in Newport, Rhode Island; the individual that looked like Henry Ford with the same car was parking next to me. A friend of my family who made the furniture for the State Department, once had a custom made Thunderbird made for him by Henry Ford. I was given a chance to buy it used for $250 back in 1975, and I even drove it down by the lake at Conyers Farm, but I figured it would be too expensive to maintain. When I used Fred Von Mierers' apartment at 420 East 49th Street from October 1973 to February 1975, it was two blocks north of the Ford Foundation. Fred's friend Joe MacDonald might have been related to Anne MacDonald Ford, Henry Ford's first wife. When I used to visit White Plains, New York trying to network with www.ibm.com , I met Fred Ford from Greenwich, but there is a Ford family in Greenwich that are one of the town founders, so they might not be involved in the automobile business. Having been a professional photographer, I know a lot of people look the same. I once noticed at the time 20 years or more, when I was thinner and fair haired, I looked a bit like https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Clay+Ford+Jr.+images&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwinn7eYyrXYAhVkTd8KHZLYAEUQsAQIJg&biw=1920&bih=919 . I was told the Ford family of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan also have a house in Greenwich, Connecticut; so possibly some of them show up here and mistake me for a Ford family member. Well, www.ford.com at one time owned both Jaguar and Volvo. I am told that Ford Motors is basically a private company with 40% owned by the family, 40% by the foundation, and 20% by the pension fund. I am also told a director of the Ford Motor company also live up by the Round Hill Club here in Greenwich, and the Greenwich police drive Ford automobiles, because they get a good deal on them. I did once drive a Ford Mustang convertible around this area and Boston, when Edsel Ford was at Babson College. I once owned a used Ford Escort while living at Vinci Drive, but I think it had had a fire, and it would never start in the winter. When I was in Oslo, Norway in February 1983, I saw two thousand Ford Escorts on the dock there. What kind of cars to Norwegians drive? Fjords. I will now shower and clean up, but first I will go outside again to bay at the full moon. CIO
12/31/17 Sunday 6:25 P.M. Before going to bed, I ate a 5.4 ounce Dannon low fat Greek yogurt with fruit. I ate ate six Fig Newtons and a 6.25 ounce can of pistachio delights. I chatted with a relative at 9 A.M.. I also woke up again, and I drank a 8.5 ounce glass of www.perrier.com pink grapefruit. I finally woke up at 5:30 P.M.. I went outside in the local Siberian tundra. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 12/31/17
12/31/17 Sunday 6:50 A.M. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/technology/nikola-tesla.html?emc=edit_th_20171231&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=46729
I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then shut down the primary work computer. I will go outside. I will then go to bed. CIO
12/31/17 Sunday 5:55 A.M. I watched on Acorn TV https://signup.acorn.tv/ , series 5 episode 11, the final episode of "A Place to Call Home. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/31/17 Sunday 5:00 A.M. http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Town-offers-safety-warning-as-Greenwich-remains-12462307.php CIO
12/31/17 Sunday 4:50 A.M. A dove was sitting on the window sill to stay warm, when I went outside. When I walked by it, it flew away and startled me. CIO
12/31/17 Sunday 4:30 A.M. I made up a batch of Knorr 5.6 chicken flavor rice and pasta mix, and I ate half and refrigerated the other half in a Rubbermaid container. I ate it with two White Castle cheeseburgers and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/31/17 Sunday 3:45 A.M. I updated McAfee on the Asus Netbook in the bedroom. I exchange the Haier television from the bedroom into the living room where the Westinghouse TV was, and I moved the Westinghouse TV into the bedroom where the Haier TV was. I also moved their speaker systems and their Roku devices. One can exchange the HDMI input on both television for their accessories with HDMI switches. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/31/17 Sunday 1:00 A.M. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062224069/ref=pe_397970_266254470_em_1p_7_ti
https://www.rokuguide.com/articles/200-essential-movies-to-watch-now-on-roku?awt_l=KCgef&awt_m=3Z9kksbaFS11fNX I will now venture out into the Siberian Tundra again. CIO
12/31/17 Sunday 12:25 A.M. I went outside again. It is minus 12 degrees Fahrenheit in Kennebunkport, Maine http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.3626&lon=-70.4701#.WkhxEDdryUk . It is zero degrees Fahrenheit in Lake Forest, Illinois http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.251&lon=-87.8417#.WkhxdjdryUk . It is minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit in Bangor, Maine http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=44.8017&lon=-68.7708#.Wkhx0DdryUk . It is minus 7 degrees Fahrenheit in Minneapolis and St. Paul Minnesota http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=44.8797&lon=-93.1997#.WkhyGzdryUk . It is minus 28 degrees Fahrenheit in International Falls, Minnesota http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=48.6026&lon=-93.4036#.WkhybzdryUk . It is minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit in Bismarck, North Dakota http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=46.8083&lon=-100.7837#.WkhyszdryUk . https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/weakening-polar-vortex-may-yield-longer-harsher-winters-in-north-america/70000025 . CIO
12/30/17 Saturday 11:30 P.M. There are a few private people who like going to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boca_Grande,_Florida . I went outside again. Some wealthy people from the upper Midwest like visiting https://www.catcayyachtclub.com/Club/Scripts/section/section.asp?NS=HP . Unfortunately for me, Dr. Connors one of my dermatologists here in Greenwich, Connecticut told me I should not go out in the sun until after 3 P.M. in the afternoon, so if I were ever down south, I would have to be on a night schedule. I will now reheat the other half of the pizza from last night, and I will eat it with a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. CIO
12/30/17 Saturday 10:00 P.M. A friend of mine whose cell phone quit working a few days ago might be down in http://www.bequiatourism.com/ . A relative of mine had a house down there. The Kennedys and John Kerry are also supposed to vacation down there. They are supposed to have a Scottish area down there. CIO
12/30/17 Saturday 9:35 P.M. I will now go outside again. I will then shower and clean up. I will not be going out in the very cold weather tonight. I am sure there are a lot of young people on vacation that can people watch on Greenwich Avenue for whatever it is worth. CIO
12/30/17 Saturday 9:05 P.M. I went outside again, and I chatted with a neighbor. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
12/30/17 Saturday 7:25 P.M. I chatted with a relative at 3 P.M.. I woke up at 6 P.M.. I went outside, and I cleaned two inches of snow off my Volvo wagon. I moved it to its usual place. I cleaned the benches in the front of the building and the east side picnic tables. I picked up the mail. I chatted with neighbors. I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with Equal sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and preserves, a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk, and vitamins and supplements. I will now go outside again. One should look at the recent two inches of snow, and see if there are any foot or paw prints from wild animals. CIO
12/30/17 Saturday 8:05 A.M. I drove over to the Valley Road post office, and I mailed the https://www.landsend.com/ return gift package. They will send me a gift card less the $6.95 price of the postage. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. It is minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit up in Kennebunkport, Maine http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.3626&lon=-70.4701#.WkeOpzdryUk . Those lobsters must be cold. Bon Soir. CIO
12/30/17 Saturday 7:30 A.M. I finished maintaining the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop. It seems to work just fine, but it is a bit slow starting up. I will do some more work on my spare laptop, when I have time. I need to add a few changed files, and some more Windows 10 Apps updates. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/30/17 Saturday 6:30 A.M. I went outside again, and I chatted with a neighbor. I am still working on maintaining the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop with Windows 10. It seems to be working fine after restoring the backup. It is a bit slower laptop though. I am now doing a Norton Quick Scan. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/30/17 Saturday 5:25 A.M. I am doing some more Mickey Magic. I brought the Asus Netbook out of storage, and I set it up on the old Apple laptop in the bedroom. It should work off the apartment wireless. I brought the Dell Latitude E6400 laptop out of storage, and I put it underneath where the new Apple laptop sits on the north end of the dining table. Its system configuration was messed up, so I am now doing a Windows 10 backup restore from August 25, 2016. Thus once it is restored it should work fine. I will put the newer version of Norton Internet Security on it. I will have it resting underneath the newer Apple laptop available for service. Since these two items are rather tiny, they do not add to apartment clutter. However, in an emergency situation for the internet, they would be possibly handy. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/30/17 Saturday 4:20 A.M. There seems to be additional security around the building at the moment. I found a 8.5 ounce unopened can of www.perrier.com pink grapefruit. I brought inside, and I put it in the refrigerator, so it will not freeze. CIO
12/30/17 Saturday 3:55 A.M. I ate four ounces of deluxe mixed nuts. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . I will now go outside again. CIO
12/30/17 Saturday 3:20 A.M. I ordered in black https://www.ebay.com/itm/Winter-Face-Mask-Warm-Cold-Weather-One-Hole-Facemask-OD-Black-Ski-Snow-Masks/321256933871?epid=1800688351&hash=item4acc67c9ef:m:m_rMkhS9zlN8PpDJzlk7vdw for $4.99 and $3.89 shipping for $8.88 total.
These https://www.ebay.com/itm/Black-One-Hole-Three-Hold-Winter-Facemask-Rothco-Fine-Knit-Ski-Face-Mask-/192020858354?var=&hash=item727a6d6217 and https://www.ebay.com/itm/Black-Wintuck-Face-Mask-Cold-Weather-Winter-Facemask-Warm-Head-Covers-/200991921637?var=&hash=item7476858174 are also available. CIO
12/30/17 Saturday 2:30 A.M. http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Town-offers-safety-warning-as-Greenwich-remains-12462307.php
12/30/17 Saturday 2:30 A.M. http://www.thecrownchronicles.co.uk/royal-news/princess-anne-prince-charles-busiest-royals-2017-andrew-third/
http://volcano.si.edu/reports_weekly.cfm
Tracking is https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?tLabels=9274890104201232371922.+ on the order for $6.99 and .44 tax for $7.43 total with free shipping in navy https://www.ebay.com/itm/aeropostale-mens-fingerless-gloves-/401439017056
I took the 31.5 ounce https://www.digiorno.com/ Self Rising Supreme pizza, and I put minced dried onions on it, garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, grated parmesan and Romano cheese and extra virgin olive oil. I baked it in the Farberware convection over at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes. I ate half with a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca and put the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator.
I will now go outside again. CIO
12/30/17 Saturday 1:05 A.M. View and Pay your Greenwich, Connecticut taxes https://www.mytaxbill.org/inet/bill/home.do?town=greenwich . There was an article in the internet press that paying one's local taxes before the end of the year might not save money according to the IRS.
I went out, and I went by the www.chase.com bank at Deerfield Place. I then went downtown, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. It was not busy, and it was 16 degrees Fahrenheit outside. I then drove over to the Stop and Shop, and I bought two packages of 7 ounce regular Banquet frozen sausages for $1.25 each and a 31.5 ounce https://www.digiorno.com/ Self Rising Supreme pizza for $5.50 for $8 total. They showed me how to use the self check out machines at closing. I then went back downtown, and I walked upper Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I used the Chase Bank ATM machine at the top of Greenwich Avenue. The Barcelona wine bar newly reopened after the fire looks busy just west of the top of Greenwich Avenue. After my walk, I returned home. I sat outside briefly. I put away my purchases. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/29/17 Friday 9:15 P.M. I put a new Air Wick scent refill in the living room scent machine. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go downtown to Greenwich Avenue. It is currently 15 degrees Fahrenheit http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.04904598378624&lon=-73.62304748575207&site=all&smap=1#.Wkb0iDdryUl . There was an advertisement on www.foxbusiness.com yesterday that www.ibm.com Watson super computer can handle a billion cyber security threats a day https://www.ibm.com/security/security-intelligence/qradar?S_PKG=-&cm_mmc=Search_Google-_-Security_Detect%20threats%20%20-%20QRadar-_-WW_NA-_-%20ibm%20%20cyber%20%20security_Broad_-&cm_mmca1=000000MI&cm_mmca2=10000099&cm_mmca7=9003454&cm_mmca8=kwd-296819003483&cm_mmca9=77dae110-9caf-482b-b857-d12bf6e8c2bb&cm_mmca10=226278009511&cm_mmca11=b&mkwid=77dae110-9caf-482b-b857-d12bf6e8c2bb|467|818964&cvosrc=ppc.google.+ibm%20+cyber%20+security&cvo_campaign=000000MI&cvo_crid=226278009511&Matchtype=b . CIO
12/29/17 Friday 7:40 P.M. I faxed a copy of my December 2017 bank statement to my town of Greenwich, Connecticut social worker to be used for my energy assistance application. I chatted with Network Solutions, and I renewed my domain name for $37.99 until mid May 2019. I also go domain name insurance for free. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/29/17 Friday 6:05 P.M. I ate the last clementine before going to bed. I woke up at 5:30 P.M.. I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of http://www.dhl.com/en/express/tracking.html?AWB=9241990101549212930410&brand=DHL on the order for https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0070545901/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used for $5.28 and $1 shipping for $6.28 total arrived. I chatted with a relative. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
12/29/17 Friday 6:10 A.M. I went outside again. When I was younger and more fit, I used to go into Manhattan on the coldest nights of the year. I think during the cold spell in February after "911", I drove into Manhattan in my Austrian lederhosen suit that I bought at the Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop for $50 and my Italian alpine boots and my Australia bush hat, and I went to a couple of pubs with younger people whom were amused to see me and figure out whom I was. I also stopped by the Waldorf Astoria and the doorman looked like the Aga Khan who is a Swiss citizen, and I saw two cold weather young blond girls with the www.ford.com family look coming out of the Waldorf with two bodyguards, and they got into a blue Ford Taurus. Well, Grosse Point Farms, Michigan is pretty cold in the winter, so they might feel more comfortable here. It is a little bit warmer there http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.4064&lon=-82.8927#.WkYfkzdryUk . Of course the Rockefeller family are known for hiding out in Jackson Hole, Wyoming http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.6844&lon=-110.6899#.WkYf8DdryUk , and it is a bit warmer there with more snow. I guess the well traveled northern people like their privacy, and they do not like internet bloggers. They did not have the Santa Claus Mercedes Benz commercials on television this Christmas, but www.chase.com is advertising automobile loans with an old 1951 Adenhauer Mercedes B 300 like I restored at www.lfc.edu putting thousands of hours into it and $4,500 of hard earned money, and I only got $1,250, when I sold it to a Watertown, Massachusetts pharmacist to afford to go to Europe in 1972, but I saw a lot more like it in Athens, Greece. I did not visit Germany on that trip. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will go back outside. I will then go to bed. CIO
12/29/17 Friday 5:35 A.M. Now it is minus 24 degrees Fahrenheit in Kennebunkport, Maine http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.3626&lon=-70.4701#.WkYZRTdryUk . About three summers ago, when I was getting on I-95 south in Portland, Maine, I saw a homeless man with a sign that looked like Nelson Rockefeller, so it must be a very common look up north. CIO
12/29/17 Friday 5:30 A.M. The lights just blinked for a fraction of a second. I hope there is nothing wrong with the nearby Nuclear Reactor up by the Rockefellers. Basically the half life of radioactive material is about 350,000 years, so it does not go away right away. I ate four ounces of deluxe mixed nuts and a 8.5 ounce glass of www.perrier.com . Of course Perrier is over a billion years old, so it does not go away too fast either. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm again. The Chinese are not giving away any bargains. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/29/17 Friday 4:40 A.M. My mother's family name is "Bovan" which in Dutch means upstairs. However, this similar name "Boven" might be a relative over in the Netherlands https://www.nuernberg.de/internet/menschenrechte_e/jury_vanboven_bio_en.html . CIO
!!!!!! 12/29/17 Friday 4:10 A.M. Free Reading for Kindle devices https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_2?&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aamazonclassics%20edition&ie=UTF8&_encoding=UTF8&tag=bensbargaicenter&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325 . I bought all of the free books for my Kindle reader on the first twelve pages of free books. I bought by mistake the Audible version of Pride and Prejudice for $5.54, and I also bought for the Kindle reader which also work on my other devices too, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain for .49 and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy for .49. I will now have a whole lot of books for my Kindle reader and my two Ipads, if I ever get around to reading instead of typing. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/29/17 Friday 2:30 A.M. I paid my http://optonline.net/ Digital Cable TV, Optimum Boost Plus, Optimum Voice, and my http://www.verizon.net/ bill and my www.eversource.com electricity account. My current Optimum bill was about $202.75, which is about $65 for high speed Cable Modem, $35 for Optimum Voice long distance and about $102.75 for premium Cable TV. However that includes $35 in discounts for all three packages which covers the two cable boxes which are about $12 and taxes other fees. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/29/17 Friday 2:10 A.M. It is currently 8 degrees Fahrenheit outside here http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.04904598378624&lon=-73.62304748575207&site=all&smap=1#.WkXoQzdryUl . However it is minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit in Kennebunkport, Maine http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.3626&lon=-70.4701#.WkXogzdryUk . CIO
12/29/17 Friday 1:20 A.M. I took four large eggs, and I broke them in a mixing bowl. I added two tablespoons of milk, a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, Italian seasoning, and a tablespoon of grated parmesan and Romano cheese. I whisked it all together. I then put four tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil in my 10 inch seasoned omelet pan, and I heated it on medium high electric burner heat. Once the oil was hot, I swirled it around the pan, and I added the egg mixture, and I turned the electric burner heat down to medium. Once the egg mixture was cooked well enough on the bottom side, I flipped it with a spatula, and I added six .25 inch by 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch slices of Cracker Barrel Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on one side, and then I flipped the other side over it. I let it heat for about another minute, and I put it on a dinner plate with grated parmesan and Romano cheese on top of it. I ate it with a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and Smucker's raspberry jelly, and ten Banquet maple sausages and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. Well, there goes my diet for the day, but one needs a little food to survive the colder weather. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/29/17 Friday 12:15 A.M. I put away the clean laundry. Back in the old days at www.lfc.edu , when I rented the Farm in Knollwood, Illinois, when we were bored at night, we would drive west to the Toll Road that ran from Chicago to Milwaukee in Libertyville, Illinois, and we would go to the Harvey rest area restaurant called the "Oasis" there, and eat a big farmer's breakfast of three eggs over easy with five strips of bacon and toast with butter and jelly and hash brown potatoes and orange juice and coffee with cream and sugar for about $3. It sort of took the edge off those cold Midwestern nights, and would see a lot of people traveling north in that neck of the woods. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 11:30 P.M. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Woodrow-Wilson
I will now go outside again. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 11:15 P.M. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. One of the most famous Norwegians in the United States of America was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Ness who spent a lot of time up on Canadian border fighting the Capone mafia bootleggers from Chicago. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 10:50 P.M. I have 55 minutes to go on two dry cycles. I will now go outside again to see how Jack Frost is doing. We actually used to have a retired Idaho sheriff living in this building named George Frost. He got tired of dealing with Mountain Lions, so he moved back east. He was also in the Battle of the Bulge. He gambled a lot, so he always had a wad of hundred dollar bills. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 10:35 P.M. Back in the early days of television, this used to be on television "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_Preston_of_the_Yukon_(TV_series)" . When I was out at www.nantucket.net in the 1960s and 1970s, there used to be a bar across from the Nantucket airport called "Preston's" with pool tables. Both in Key West and Nantucket, there were a lot of Canadians. The father of the house where I built the garage apartment out at 21 Circle Drive, Plandome Manor, Long Island had gone to the https://www.utoronto.ca/ , but I do not know if he was a Canadian or not. He had left his wife and moved to Santa Rosa, California. His grandson used to drink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molson_Brewery , so they were probably cold weather people. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 10:10 P.M. I showered, and I cleaned up. I have 30 minutes to go on two wash cycles. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 9:15 P.M. I gave a neighbor who had left their keys in their mailbox back their keys. I put clean linens on the bed. I will now go outside and visit the local tundra. It is so cold outside, there does not seem to be any activity at the indoor ice skating rink in the back yard. For Canadian citizens only, there is the Canadian Emergency telephone number for free at 1-613-996-8885. They do accept collect calls, but they only help Canadian citizens. I think the United States of America should have an emergency telephone line for stranded citizens traveling abroad and at home. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 8:30 P.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . I chatted with a relative. I will now go outside again to star gaze. I gave away my telescope, when I also decluttered the apartment. I have enough room in the apartment to have one or two guest over for coffee. However, being on a night schedule, everyone ignores me. I guess the high tech people prefer www.starbucks.com for its free wireless and better expensive coffee. Folgers does not make it will millennials, although Folgers was Ben Franklin's mother's family from www.nantucket.com Ben was high tech for his time, and he also attended www.harvard.edu . He was the youngest of 13 children, so he was a bit spoiled. https://www.fi.edu/history-resources/philadelphia-weather-data?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5JrXsIeu2AIV0IKzCh3OzAwNEAAYASAAEgLDWvD_BwE . Old Ben knew about the Gulf stream and its changing course effected major weather patterns. I am told the Gulf Stream even goes up to Oslo, Norway; so Oslo is a bit warmer than the rest of the country. See https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/NOXX0029:1:NO Oslo, Norway is warmer than here right now. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 7:55 P.M. I went outside, and I threw out the garbage. I washed the breakfast dishes. I watered the plants. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 6:40 P.M. I woke up, and I a half ounce of whole cashew nuts. I finally woke up at 5:30 P.M.. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I chatted with a relative. I went outside again. It is 15 degrees Fahrenheit outside at the moment. I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with Equal sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and preserves, a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk, and vitamins and supplements. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 5:40 A.M. The Space Station does not fly by until 6:46 A.M. this morning from southwest to northeast at 10 degrees for six minutes and maximum height 45 degrees. When I used to visit the pub near Danbury where people from Perkin Elmer and Hughes Satellite hung out after work, I found out they were working on the Hubble telescope mirror. While there I met a Dutch pilot for www.klm.com who was the nephew of Queen Beatrice of the Netherlands. He told me he was the copilot on the KLM 747 flight over Alaska that lost all four engines over an active Alaska volcanoe. However, he was able to restart the engines. When I got on the internet about 1992, I thought it might be a good way to start to link the world's yacht clubs together. Then I read the news story about the NASA satellite that could X-ray volcanoes, and I started studying volcanoes for a long time on the internet. Now that there are so many people on the internet, I feel I have sort of delicated authority as far as most matters are concerned. When I was just outside now, I saw something fly by in the southeast sky at over fifty thousand feet or more going as fast as the old Space Shuttle used to travel. The Dutch pilot named Eric told me he wanted to be the first Hypersonic pilot from London to Australia in an hour. I am told they have developed such aircraft at Area 51, and I have seen them before in the night sky. I just can not figure out why people would be in such a rush to travel that fast. In the old days of NASA, every pound in space cost two million dollars, so the astronauts were small people. The astronauts I was told used to train down in Key West, Florida. I saw one tiny person downtown at CVS last night with a very big body guard, so maybe he is an astronaut. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will go outside again. I will then go to bed. Bon Soir. C'est tres froid, n'est pas? Il yas des Isles qui parle des Francaise in autre partis du monde. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 5:00 A.M. Back in June 1962, my father Louis Dale Scott was a vice president of Chemstrand a company owned by www.monsanto.com and American Viscose. We were transferred up north to Greenwich, Connecticut with the first year actually in Stamford, Connecticut on the Greenwich border before we moved to Greenwich, Connecticut the following year. Stillman Rockefeller was on the board of directors of Monsanto. I started at Greenwich Country Day in September 1962. When we first moved to Greenwich, Connecticut we lived on Baldwin Farms North off Round Hill Road. Lowell Weicker who was First Selectman of Greenwich at the time was friends of my family and a neighbor. However, going to private school and living in back country, I did not have many friends or socialize with people. I spent most of my free time doing my home work and reading. In the summer, I played golf at the Greenwich Country Club a lot. At the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, I only played golf in the spring, and I spent a lot of afternoons in the library reading instead of playing sports. At Lake Forest College out in Lake Forest, Illinois; I worked a lot of part time jobs to have a little extra money. After my first two years, most of my glasses were seminars in the afternoon, so I would sleep late and work jobs like driving a taxi cab during the late night and early morning hours. During my first two years, I worked as bank teller in the afternoon. Of course back home in Weston, Massachusetts, I was a research photographer and COBOL software engineer and construction laborer at Polaroid in the summer, where my father was also a vice president. Dr. Land of Polaroid was President Richard Nixon's science advisor. When I arrived in Manhattan at the first of January in 1973 after having traveled as a student in Europe the previous winter and spring, I was full of optimism about my job prospects. However, although I graduated, Lake Forest College would never release my transcript saying I owed them $7,500 in tuition costs for my independent studies project at Polaroid in COBOL software programming taken off campus. That might have interfered with my job hunting. By October 1973, the stock market crashed and there was an Arab oil embargo. When I met Fred Von Mierers, he was connected up with Rockefeller family members and other prosperous New Yorkers. However, New York never lead to anything, so I left for good the first time in February 1975, just to work around home in Greenwich. After spending sometime from that summer 1975 to December 1983 in Nantucket and traveling to Florida, California, and living also in Manhattan and Long Island and Greenville, South Carolina, I became used to doing hard working simple jobs that did not pay much money like dish washing and construction and typing. In that period CitiBank advertised that a million people worked at night in Manhattan, but although having minor Rockefeller connections; it never lead to me ever being paid for any of my work done at night over the years including a lot of walking and chatting with strangers in public, where ever I lived and traveled. Quite frankly being a night person, where ever I lived, I do not think any of the daytime people even knew I was around, when I was asleep. At age 67, I just know how to keep busy with my own simple routines. Since we have better communications today, we know more; but all of the communication and reading the periodical literature on the internet take a lot more time. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 4:15 A.M. I watched on Acorn TV https://signup.acorn.tv/ , series 5 episode 11 of "A Place to Call Home. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 2:55 A.M. I also threw out my two DeLonghi oil filled radiators which were warm and comfortable to sit by on a cold night without paying to heat the whole apartment. It is currently 13 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.04904598378624&lon=-73.62304748575207&site=all&smap=1#.WkShsDdryUl . As I have said before at Christmas Time I turn up the heat in the apartment, so it is currently 68 degrees Fahrenheit inside my apartment. However, once I get the December electric bill at the first of January, I turn the heat down about 4 to 6 degrees Fahrenheit to save money. I will now reheat the other half of the pizza, and I will eat it with a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. The symbol of the King of Norway is a fire ax, so the Norwegians are very fire conscious. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 2:30 A.M. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hot-Outdoor-Neutral-Adjustable-Military-Tactic-Backpack-Rucksacks-Hiking-Travel/380885362476?rmvSB=true
http://www.josbank.com/knit-scarf-hat-set-clearance?utm_source=linkshare&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=generic&utm_campaign=default&ranMID=38377&ranEAID=NKa3hZyYoHA&ranSiteID=NKa3hZyYoHA-LFN2oI66Ohdh0cy7CtJEgA&mid=38377&siteID=NKa3hZyYoHA-LFN2oI66Ohdh0cy7CtJEgA I will now venture out into the local tundra. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 2:05 A.M. I guess the King of Norway https://www.royalcourt.no/ has a lot of influence in the North Country. You can contact them here https://www.royalcourt.no/kontakt.html?tid=28714&sek=27327 . While in Oslo, Norway during the winter of 1983, I bought a little 7 inch by 10 inch Norwegian flag that I sewed on my back pack that I spent the whole summer sewing together with blue canvas from Hood Sail and blue Heminway thread from Steamboat Road in Greenwich, Connecticut on the beach out in www.nantucket.net during the summer of 1977. It is a bit heavy. I had originally designed to carry supplies, if I were on a sailboat having to go ashore for supplies. However, I am not supposed to be out in the hot sun anymore in the tropics. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 1:35 A.M. Back in February 1982, when it was minus 26 degrees Fahrenheit in Manhattan after Mount St. Helen's had erupted, I was comfortable in Julie Bolton's dog's apartment on West 74th Street, since it was part of the Manhattan Steam grid. When it was that cold the Saudi Arabian flag was always flying at the Waldorf Astoria, since they were making a lot of money, and it was about 85 degrees Fahrenheit in the hotel lobby, when I walked through it. When I had to move out on one of those cold nights because Julie's younger son was moving back in, I stayed with Bobby Fink from Hollywood, Florida who lived in a well heated apartment about a small Episcopal church on East 54th street. On Manhattan's new cable television service, the kept running Dr. Zhivago. Bobby got a thousand dollars a hair cut for working for Vogue magazine. When after a week, he had to go down to St. Bart's in the Caribbean for a fashion shoot, I had to leave the apartment. He introduced me to a friend that lived on East 52nd Street across from Greta Garbo and two friends Michael and Louis from England that lived in the pent house of the East 54th street where Fred Von Mierers and Joe MacDonald also lived. It took the $100 that Julie had given me to move out, and I flew down to Key West. I stayed with three different people down there, until I was sent back up north because of a computer problem. Back out at Plandome Manor, Long Island where John Bolton and Vivian West were living at 21 Circle Drive, I worked from April 1982 to February 1983, building a garage apartment for Julie Bolton. I worked 12 to 18 hours a day with only Christmas Day off. I was paid $8,500 for the job. Vivian told me she had traveled to every five star hotel in the world, and she could afford to do that since she owned the insurance underwriter that insured the refineries in New Jersey. After I finished the job, I visited a sister in Norwalk, Connecticut. I spend a week in New Haven staying at the Colony Hotel while www.yale.edu was on vacation. I visited Washington D.C., where I met Lyndon Johnson's heart surgeon, Dr. Gillespie. He told me the biggest cause of heart disease was stress. I visited a relative in Newport Richey, Florida; and we visited Epcot Center. I returned back up north to New York, and I paid $800 to fly S.A.S. to Stockholm, Sweden round trip with a week's stay at the S.A.S. hotel. For some odd reason, the jet landed at a military airport outside of Oslo, Norway; and we were bused to the S.A.S. hotel in Oslo, Norway. At the S.A.S. hotel in Oslo, Norway, the desk clerk told me my ticket was only a one way ticket to Stockholm. Since I paid cash at Kennedy airport for the package tour, I figured I was robbed. I stayed at the Y.M.C.A. across the street from the S.A.S. hotel. I had to move out, because I was low on funds. I was put up at the Best Western Hotel behind the Royal Palace for a couple of weeks. I did not eat any food was in Oslo, Norway except Swedish Wasa crisps. My father paid about $2,000 for the hotel which included meals that I did not eat and the return flight to Kennedy airport in New York City after St. Patrick's day 1983. From there I went up to Nantucket until December 1983, when I returned to Greenwich with side trips to Fort Lauderdale, Toronto, and Manhattan. While in Oslo, Norway, I attended a concert at the Peace Hall. I saw the King or Norway walking around. A lot of young people were smoking marijuana around the Green Houses outside the Royal Palace. I was told by one of the Royal Norwegian Guards, in Norway, when they run out of Virginia tobacco, they smoke robe. I also found out that since the Royal Norwegian Guards stand outside all night in the freezing weather with their machine guns, the Queen of Norway goes outside every hour with cups of hot chocolate to keep their fingers warm on the trigger. Thus they must have some sort of security problem with wild animals like Polar Bears. In my apartment here in Greenwich which I have lived for 29 years, I used to keep a lot of emergency items for colder weather, besides all of the extra computer equipment used for testing the various Microsoft operating systems over the years. When I had to start decluttering the apartment, I got rid of the two www.army.mil sleeping bags good to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit that I bought for $40 apiece on Ebay from Abilene, Kansas where Dwight David Eisenhower was from. I got rid of three of my four jump start systems. I also got rid of two extra comforters. Thus some of my emergency cold weather stuff is now gone. I also got rid of my automobile mechanics tools. I have four red L.L. Bean union suits, so if we ever lost power for an extended period of time, I could try wearing all of those. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 12:45 A.M. http://view.reply.reaganfoundation.org/?qs=03620d1ac47296cb8727d7859b57280bc651013a36d7c13fa6bc0293c4d1ad89b0a357c2a9073ae8ee14be2938116e63bc99ccd76777c30918ad74be815029c6216a54bfee372b3c
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Pasteur I will now go outside again. CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 12:20 A.M. To smoke outside in this cold weather, I ordered for $6.99 and .44 tax for $7.43 total with free shipping in navy https://www.ebay.com/itm/aeropostale-mens-fingerless-gloves-/401439017056 CIO
12/28/17 Thursday 12:10 A.M. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. I am going to quit wearing my old topsiders when I go outside briefly. I have a new pair of heavy www.llbean.com slip on brown suede shoes with heavy soles that I can put on quickly. CIO
12/27/17 Wednesday 11:05 P.M. I put my heavier King Size direct blue parka to wear outside around the building in this cold weather. I still wear my even heavier www.llbean.com parka downtown. I have an almost equally heavy L.L. Bean burgundy parka, but it has small pockets, and I tend to need larger pockets for my keys and gloves. I took the 28 ounce https://www.digiorno.com/ four cheese pizza, and I put minced dried onions on it, garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, grated parmesan and Romano cheese and extra virgin olive oil. I am baking in the Farberware convection over at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 18 minutes. I will eat half with a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca and put the other half in a Rubbermaid container in the refrigerator. CIO
12/27/17 Wednesday 10:30 P.M. I went downtown to Greenwich Avenue. I chatted with a www.starbucks.com regular. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue in 18 degree Fahrenheit weather. I sat out at various locations. I stopped Zyn Stationary, and I bought an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, and I won $2 for a dollar profit. I chatted with a relative. I toured www.cvs.com , and I used the bathroom. I sat out after I finished my walk. I then went by the Stop and Shop. I bought a Dole pineapple for $2.50, a 28 ounce https://www.digiorno.com/ four cheese pizza for $5,three Knorr flavored rice packets for $1 each for $20 total. I then returned to Chez Mike's. It was not very busy out in the cold weather. I sat outside briefly. I put away my purchases. I will now go outside again. In very cold weather Bic butane lighters do not work very well. CIO
12/27/17 Wednesday 6:50 P.M. I took the wine glassed out of the lower cabinet in the center hallway bookcase, and I put them on the Danish end table to left of the mahogany bureau in the living room. I stored the 15 bottles of white wine in the lower cabinet of the center hallway bookcase. I threw out the garbage and the wine shipping box. I also threw out two old bottles of martini olives. I chatted with a relative. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go downtown to Greenwich Siberia Avenue to see if any of the "Freezing Norwegian Patrol" are out and about. CIO
12/27/17 Wednesday 5:40 P.M. The case of 15 bottles of International July 2017 white wine included:
2 Spencer Family Sauvignon Blanc California 2016
1 Bayshore Vinters White Blend California 2016
2 Cala de Poeti Pinot Grigio I.G.T. Italy 2016
2 Princesse Joyeuse Mauzac France 2016
2 Starlight Ridge White Wine Blend SE Australia 2016
2 Cuvee Joelle White Blend France 2016
2 Maison Gourmand Vin Blanc France 2016
2 Snickerdoodle Chardonnay California 2015
One cork screw
I will now go outside again. CIO
12/27/17 Wednesday 5:25 P.M. I went outside, and I drank my coffee. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I chatted with a friend. CIO
12/27/17 Wednesday 4:05 P.M. I chatted with a relative at noon. I woke up at 3 P.M.. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?tLabels=9405509699937198847318 on the order for https://www.ebay.com/itm/Philips-Docking-Speaker-sound-dock-works-with-iPOD-iPHONE-or-Android-Black-TV-PC/253173927840?hash=item3af2578fa0:g:XSYAAOSwPCVYA4WL for $25 with free shipping arrived. The order with tracking of https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?action=track&trackingnumber=789105844330&cntry_code=us on one of wine for $36 with Coupon Code "SALE3" https://www.groupon.com/deals/wine-insiders-1780?utm_source=groupon_transaction_succeeded&utm_medium=email&user=69b68fa31ff861bd46713b7657ec6eba5b0991e4782a056d188710ce15f6b0ad&date=20171224&uu=b0d984ba-1234-11e4-9921-00259060b5be&CID=US&s=body&c=link&d=deal-url&utm_campaign=groupon_transaction_succeeded_20171224 with shipping cost and upgrade to the other case of wine from a case of the White International Collection for $35.35 total linked from the coupon voucher page at http://wineinsiders.com/vouchers at https://wineinsiders.com/ . It is the case of 15 International July 2017 white wines. Basically the $35.35 part of the order is the shipping and the upgrade to International July 2017 white wine. Thus I am not getting two cases, just the one case 15 white wines for $71.35 total. I went outside. I set up the other Iphone docking station next to the Phillips docking station. It works just fine. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
12/27/17 Wednesday 5:50 A.M. Skype for Windows 10 works just fine. I guess the bedroom Apple laptop is too old to use Skype. It is minus 6 degrees Fahrenheit in Kennebunkport, Maine http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.3632&lon=-70.4772#.WkN4RTdryUk . I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will go outside. I will eat a clementine. I will go to bed. C'est tres froid, n'est pas?
12/27/17 Wednesday 4:50 A.M. I found this page of old Skype downloads for Macs https://skype.en.uptodown.com/mac/old . Skype 6.0 installs on the older Mac 10.75 laptop, but I can not get it to go online including with the primary work computer, so there must be a problem with Skype. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/27/17 Wednesday 3:30 A.M. I watched on Acorn TV https://signup.acorn.tv/ , series 5 episode 10 of "A Place to Call Home. I ate one ounce of whole cashew nuts. I went outside again. CIO
12/27/17 Wednesday 1:55 A.M. East 49th Street in Manhattan was also near the http://intercontinentalnybarclay.com/ where a lot of the airline personnel used to stay.
https://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/
https://www.whoishostingthis.com/resources/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gerald-Ford?source=ONTHISDAY
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mao-Zedong
I will now go outside again. CIO
12/27/17 Wednesday 12:45 A.M. https://www.adorama.com/bs16x50pvc.html
https://www.adorama.com/bs16x50pvc.html?sdtid=11097147&utm_source=rflaid912524 I will now visit the Tundra again. CIO
12/27/17 Wednesday 12:25 A.M. A lot of countries have more than one consulate in New York City. The could have a consulate to the United Nations and a consulate to New York City. Plus they could also have a Trade Mission. For example the French have a consulate at around 47th Street and 2nd Avenue, and another one at 9 West 57th street, and another one around Fifth Avenue and 83rd Street. The Russians have a consulate on East 65th Street, another one in Riverdale and another one in Glen Cove, Long Island. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
12/27/17 Wednesday 12:05 A.M. I ate the other half the pizza. When I went to www.lfc.edu , they told me that, "One is supposed to publish or parish." However, I made it to Manhattan in 1973, all I heard about was Michael Parish of Parish Hadley interior decorating. Fred Von Mierers' apartment at 420 East 49th street was in the publishing neighborhood with an Lake Forest College roommate Barry Cerf's father's publishing company Random House just east of Third Avenue on East 49th Street. Jackie O'nassis worked for them, and the Norwegian and Swedish consulates were also in the Random House building. Of course the www.un.org also does a lot of publishing and they have a printing operation underneath their park on the north side of their building. At Lake Forest College, the owner of https://www.rrdonnelley.com/ donated the Lake Forest College library, so there were lots of periodicals in the library to read. I will now go outside again. According to my weather station, it is 19 degrees Fahrenheit outside. CIO
12/26/17 Tuesday 11:10 P.M. I took a 26 ounce Pizza Unos Supreme, and I put garlic powder, ground black pepper, Italian seasoning, grated parmesan and Romano cheese and extra virgin olive oil on it, and I am baking it in the Farberware convection oven on the middle rack at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 35 minutes. I will eat half with a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I will refrigerate the other half in a Rubbermaid container. I once ate at Pizza Unos in Chicago with a relative, and I once ate with a friend at their New York City branch behind the Natural History Museum of called Duos https://restaurants.unos.com/locations/New-York/NY/0308 and https://www.unos.com/ . CIO
12/26/17 Tuesday 10:35 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I went downtown to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue. I picked up three prescriptions. I then went further downtown. I chatted with a relative. I walked the lower Greenwich Avenue area. They are repairing the left front glass door at the www.apple.com store. I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com . It was very slow downtown on a very cold night. I then went to the Acme Grocery store. I bought six 10.35 ounce Banquet Swedish meatballs for $10, two 23 ounce Folgers' Classic coffee for $5.99 each, a 16 ounce Signature strawberry jelly for $1.49, three 9 ounce Green Giant frozen microwave baby Brussels sprouts for .88 each, bananas for .69 a pound for $1.24 and a 6 pack of White Castle cheeseburgers for $4.89 less a dollar coupon for the White Castle cheeseburgers for $31.24 total. I then went by the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $11 of self service V-Power premium gasoline for $3.599 a gallon for 3.057 gallons at odometer reading for 116624 miles for 34.5 miles driven since Saturday, December 16, 2017 for 11.286 miles per gallon in local traffic. I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor. I put away my purchases. I will then go outside again. CIO
12/26/17 Tuesday 7:15 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I chatted with a relative. I went outside again. Tracking is https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?action=track&trackingnumber=789105844330&cntry_code=us on one or both cases of wine for $36 with Coupon Code "SALE3" https://www.groupon.com/deals/wine-insiders-1780?utm_source=groupon_transaction_succeeded&utm_medium=email&user=69b68fa31ff861bd46713b7657ec6eba5b0991e4782a056d188710ce15f6b0ad&date=20171224&uu=b0d984ba-1234-11e4-9921-00259060b5be&CID=US&s=body&c=link&d=deal-url&utm_campaign=groupon_transaction_succeeded_20171224 with free shipping and possibly the other case of wine from a case of the White International Collection for $35.35 total linked from the coupon voucher page at http://wineinsiders.com/vouchers at https://wineinsiders.com/ . Of course with all of that wine around, I have to be careful about drinking it, since a DWI would be beyond my budget and might effect my www.geico.com automobile insurance. I will just call it www.redcross.org emergency supplies. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go downtown to Green Witch Avenue to see the remains of the day. CIO
12/26/17 Tuesday 5:35 P.M. I picked up the mail. I went outside again. CIO
12/26/17 Tuesday 4:40 P.M. I woke up at 4 P.M.. I went outside. I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with Equal sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and preserves, a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk, and vitamins and supplements. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/26/17 Tuesday 5:55 A.M. I ate one ounce of whole cashew nuts. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go outside again. I will then eat a clementine. I will then go to bed. CIO
12/26/17 Tuesday 5:40 A.M. I am just about finishing watching on Acorn TV https://signup.acorn.tv/ , series 5 episode 9 of "A Place to Call Home. I called up Lands' End https://www.landsend.com/ at 1-800-963-4816, and they do not have a flannel shirt in 2 XL, so I will return mine, and have my relative order me a 2 XL flannel shirt from maybe www.llbean.com if they have them. They are near http://www.carrvalleycheese.com/ . I went outside again. CIO
12/26/17 Tuesday 4:10 A.M. I went outside again. I ate 11 Triscuit crackers with 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch by 3/32nds of inch slices of Cracker Barrel Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/25/trump-spreads-christmas-cheer-at-mar-lago.html CIO
!!!!!! 12/26/17 Tuesday 3:05 A.M. Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas Broadcast 2017 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42475052 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVWGYmrXjH0 . CIO
12/26/17 Tuesday 2:45 A.M. Lands' End exchange information https://www.landsend.com/customerservice/returns/phone/us/ . CIO
12/26/17 Tuesday 2:20 A.M. I put a shelf on the primary work computer setup. I hooked up the spare AOC 21 inch monitor on the right side, so I now have two monitor on the primary work computer setup. I will now go outside again in the frigid Artic hair. CIO
12/26/17 Tuesday 1:50 A.M. I put the two seven inch Iview tablets on the bedroom desk stacked up on the other tables, so it does not look cluttered; but they are available. I put the older Apple laptop on the bedroom desk. I put the Boston Red Sox mouse pad with it and a USB headset. At the moment, I can not download Skype for 10.75 an older version. However, the over setup works, and it does not look cluttered either. I also put new batteries in my weather station and its remote. I think Fox News got it wrong today. They said this winter in the Northeast is supposed to be the warmest winter in a hundred years. CIO
12/26/17 Tuesday 12:45 A.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
12/26/17 Tuesday 12:25 A.M. I went outside again. I put out the 8 inch Android table on the bedroom desk with the two Ipads, so it will be available for use. CIO
12/26/17 Tuesday 12:05 A.M. http://view.reply.reaganfoundation.org/?qs=a8477c8ef17cc7340fbabc88dfb4c3bcd08159cbb83d2e0be285c512c340c8dd90c139203150110fc5d4b805213c60ca1f7cd5a547b621a934b93720e6f2e928b03b0e1a378fea43
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12/25/17 Monday 11:15 P.M. After I clean up, like Buddy Epsom in the Beverly Hillbillies, I will put on my https://www.llbean.com/llb/search/?freeText=union+suit&init=1 and https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/47356?feat=union%20suit-SR0&page=two-layer-union-suit-men-s&csp=a to be a little bit warmer in this colder weather. If one looks at https://www.llbean.com/ , one will see how cold weather family hang up their winter outdoor coats and boots. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 10:55 P.M. I ate a 16 ounce Boston Market roasted turkey and mashed potato dinner with Smart Balance Spread on the potatoes, a Knorr creamy garlic pasta mixture, and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I watched Cspan about Henry Ford's railroad museum in Green Farms, Michigan. I guess nobody in my family knows anything about railroads anymore. The last time I was on a Cho Cho was when I visited the Big Apple almost ten years ago. I will now go out in the Siberian Tundra. Usually when it get this cold for the younger people we activate the "Freezing Norwegian Patrol". I will then shower and clean up. Since it rather cold outside, I will not be traveling downtown to Greenwich Avenue this evening. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 9:35 P.M. It is supposed to be cold tonight and this week http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.04904598378624&lon=-73.62304748575207&site=all&smap=1#.WkGw2zdryUl . I chatted with a friend. I put two alkaline AA batteries in the emergency push light at the left lower side of the apartment entrance on the inside. I put three AAA alkaline batteries in each of the two LED emergency lights on the right inside of the kitchen entrance and on the left side of the bathroom entrance. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 9:00 P.M. I put three AAA alkaline batteries in each of the two Atomic Beam flash lights, and I put them on the left side of the oak dining table to the left of the Lazy Susan. One slides the top part of the Atomic Beam flashlight in and out to focus it. I put four AAA alkaline batteries in each of the two motion detection light strips, and I put one on the middle shelf on top of the toilet tank, so light comes on in the bathroom with motion. I put the other one in front of the bedroom Westinghouse TV, so light comes on, when one enters the bedroom. I will have see if it comes on, when I sleep or not, so possibly I might have to move it around. That is all of my apartment and personal Christmas gifts for now. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 8:20 P.M. I think I can call up Lands End in Wisconsin tomorrow when they open at 4 A.M. CST to exchange the flannel shirt for a larger 2 XL one. I chatted with a friend. I put the Philips charging adapter pack in right side second drawer down in the living room desk. I threw out the shipping boxes and packages, I have opened up so far. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 7:40 P.M. I opened up the black wool and acrylic Joseph Banks hat and scarf, and I put them on the right back of the Queen Anne chair. I opened up the Joseph Banks black cotton slacks, and they fit just well. I hung them on the right side of the bedroom closet. I opened up a gift from a relative of a Landsend plaid flannel shirt, but it is XL Tall which will not fit me. I have the sales slip for it or a return label for it. I think I can go to Sears in White Plains, New York to exchange it, but I do not want to risk my Volvo wagon driving in all that traffic, so I will probably return it, and let my relative order another one. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 7:25 P.M. I opened up the box of six 2018 calendars www.calenders.com , and I put them on the speaker in the right hallway bookcase to have them ready for New Years. I received from a relative a blue and white small check 2XL Ralph Lauren dress shirt. It fits just fine. I put it on the right side of my bedroom closet. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 7:10 P.M. I am now playing Elvis, Holidays off Pandora on the Philips docking station with bluetooth. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 6:45 P.M. I have the Philips Docking station with FM radio setup and connected to the Iphone 3GS. Bluetooth also works on it. This is its manual https://www.download.p4c.philips.com/files/a/ajt3300_37/ajt3300_37_dfu_aen.pdf . I can not afford any Apple music, but Pandora plays just fine on it. I will now go outside again. I put it on the Boston Red Sox mouse pad behind the primary work computer chair. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 5:35 P.M. I have the Craig DVD player setup on the Ocosmo TV in the living room. One selects on the Ocosmo remote control Source and selects AV to play it. I am now playing Bing Crosby Christmas Classics. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 4:45 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 4:25 P.M. While I was outside having my coffee, an American Eagle flew over my head about 20 feet above me flying southeast to northwest. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I am playing Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite on my living room stereo system. I will not return the Philips power adapter set, since I might need it in the future. The Knights of Columbus did not delivery my Christmas meal, but I did get the Acme $25 gift card from the Department of Social Services. The Acme grocery store closed at 3 P.M. today, but I have two Boston Market frozen turkey dinners. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 2:35 P.M. I woke up, and I ate two ounces of whole cashew nuts. I finally woke up at 2 P.M., when I chatted with a relative. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 5:05 A.M. I put the matching arm covers that I had on the Queen Anne chair's arms, so it is even more protected. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will eat a Dannon low fat Greek fruit yogurt. I will then go to bed. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 4:40 A.M. I chatted with a neighbor outside. The Knights of Columbus are supposed to deliver a Christmas meal this morning. I sort of though Elvis might show up with the Philips 30 pin Iphone 3GS docking station from Tennessee which has not arrived. Maybe it will come on Boxing Day, the Day after Christmas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgf76wNSjWA , Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas Day Speech is supposed to be at 10 A.M. EST today. I am not sure when it will be posted on Youtube, but they usually link it from https://www.royal.uk/
https://globalnews.ca/ . I guess there are not too many people awake at night on this side of the Pond, but since far way places like England are five hours ahead of us, they probably are having their tea and kippers and whatever else they eat for breakfast. I think they are short on eggs over there, because in the movies, they only eat one egg in an egg cup. I do not know how they like their eggs cooked. I learned the British like having breakfast buffet style from a side board. There are suppose to be 65 million people in England, so more than likely a few of them have visited over here on this side of the Pond. When Frederick Von Mierers let me use his apartment at 420 East 49th Street from October 1973 to February 1975, it was near One Beekman Place where the British Consulate to the www.un.org lived and also John D. Rockefeller III. On Third Avenue as I recall on the East side of it was the British Consulate Office between 52nd Street and 53rd Street. I used to pick up liquor for Fred at the liquor store just north of it, where he had a charge account. His bank was across the street called the Chemical Bank which sometime ago was bought by www.chase.com . Near Random House on East 49th Street just east of Third Avenue on the north side, there were always two Royal Blue Daimlers parked in Diplomatic Parking Spaces which never seemed to move. I once saw a vehicle like them being maintained at the www.exxon.com station formerly across from the www.greenwichlibrary.org . At that time, there were always a lot of rowdy Irish protesting in front of the British consulate, so I never ventured inside. However, I did see a lot of pedestrian traffic in that area. East 54th Street near the River Club was where Greta Garbo and Henry Kissinger lived, and supposedly the British group called the Fabians that Tony Blair was part of were in that area. There also used to be a Mayfair restaurant nearby at First Avenue and 54th Street on the southeast corner, near Fred's later apartment in Noel Coward's old building on East 54th Street just east of First Avenue, but that area has gotten so expensive, I am not sure what is left anymore. The last time I visited Manhattan was about ten years ago http://scott-mike.com/mls-030408/ for a Microsoft Conference at the Sheraton Hotel at Broadway and 54th Street. On the way out at Grand Central Terminal, I saw about two thousand people in black suits that looked like Prince Andrew, and I walked up to someone that looked like Prince Charles and Gordon Brown in my red Woolrich jacket. They did not notice me, but I saw them. If you look at my pictures, the British Union Jack was flying at the Waldorf Astoria that day, so maybe indeed it was them. Before Prince Charles was married around 1980, I waited outside Lincoln Center where he was appearing for a benefit, and I saw somebody walk by off the street that looked like him. I have a feeling they might know their way around Manhattan or know some people that do. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 3:30 A.M. Since the Queen Anne chair is in very good condition, I moved the New Zealand sheep's skin from the Ethan Allen recliner to the Queen Anne chair to protect it. The Ethan Allen recliner is also in very good shape, since I keep a Sure Fit slip cover on it. I watched on Acorn TV series 5 episode 8 of "A Place to Call Home". I will now go outside again to explore the Christmas morning wilderness. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 2:30 A.M. I chatted with a neighbor outside. I will probably return the new Philips adapter to CVS on Greenwich Avenue, since I do not need two. It quit raining outside for now, and it is not freezing. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 1:40 A.M. I ate one ounce of whole cashew nuts and two 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch by .25 inch slices of Cracker Barrel Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
12/25/17 Monday 1:15 A.M.
On LED bulbs https://theecoguide.org/cfl-vs-led?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7pKzksCk2AIV2bjACh0PRQC7EAAYAiAAEgLmGPD_BwE
More LED Bulbs https://www.ebay.com/itm/182976540376?ul_noapp=true and http://stores.ebay.com/usbestadapter/LED-Bubles-/_i.html?_fsub=443696819&_sid=899067029&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322 from California not China
http://mailchi.mp/hourofpower/merry-christmas?e=fc72afcf7a
I will now go back outside to the wild black yonder. CIO
12/25/17 Monday 12:25 A.M. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/locations/find-a-store?WT.mc_id=PromoEmail_15034_en_US_Last_Chance_In-store_12-23-2017_ImageBanner
12/25/17 Monday 12:25 A.M. Merry Christmas ! I ate two ounce of whole cashew nuts. I went outside again. CIO
12/24/17 Sunday 11:35 P.M. I am just about to eat a 16 ounce Marie Callender chicken pot pie with a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. CIO
12/24/17 Sunday 11:10 P.M. To have a spare one, I ordered https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B005617IXA/ref=dp_olp_used_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=used for $1.99 and $4.69 shipping for $6.68 total. I chatted with a relative. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/24/17 Sunday 10:30 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I went downtown to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue. The Acme and Stop and Shop grocery stores were closed. I have a $25 Acme grocery store gift card that the Greenwich Department of Social Services sent me. I toured CVS. I then sat outside across the street. I then went back into CVS, and I bought two 14.5 ounce Post Honey Bunches of Oats with almonds for $1.99 each for $3.98 total. I then drove further downtown. www.starbucks.com was closed. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations. The Versailles French restaurant was opened. The East End restaurant and bar was opened. The Chinese Steam restaurant was opened. Terra and the Gingerman were opened. The Blackstone steak house was opened. The location next to it where Barcelona was is still not opened for business. I went back into CVS, and I bought a Philips https://www.cvs.com/shop/philips-cell-phone-multi-charger-p5006-prodid-348802?skuId=348802 for $27.49 less a $4 off $20 CVS coupon and a 25% off CVS coupon for $5.88 off for $17.61 and $1.12 for $18.73 total. One can buy it used here https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B005617IXA/ref=dp_olp_used_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=used . I then used the bathroom at CVS. I then finished my walk. I returned home in light snow and sleet. I sat outside briefly. I put away my purchases. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/24/17 Sunday 5:55 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I made up a batch of fresh punch. I chatted with a relative. I will now go outside again. I will then shower and clean up. I will then go downtown to Greenwich Avenue for a Christmas Eve stroll with the Elves. CIO
12/24/17 Sunday 4:15 P.M. I ate a clementine before going to bed. I chatted with a relative at 10 A.M.. I finally woke up at 3:15 P.M.. I went outside. I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with Equal sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and preserves, a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk, and vitamins and supplements. I will now go outside again.
http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/slideshow/Photos-Southwestern-Connecticut-officers-and-168149.php CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 12/24/17
12/24/17 Sunday 5:00 A.M. I went outside, and I chatted with an early riser. I finished the maintenance on the Dell Latitude E6410 laptop. I shut it down. I will back it up sometime in the near future. When I first move into this Greenwich, Connecticut public housing 29 years ago, it was named after Congressman Stewart McKinney called McKinney Terrace. I went to his funeral at the Congregational Church in Southport, Connecticut; and the whole United States Congress was there. I do not recall whether the President of Vice President was there. I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then shut down the primary work computer. I will go outside again. I will then go to bed. CIO
12/24/17 Sunday 4:00 A.M. I ate a 5 ounce bag of Texas Toast Caesar croutons. CIO
12/24/17 Sunday 3:35 A.M. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/23/theres-war-coming-marine-corps-general-warns-us-troops.html . CIO
12/24/17 Sunday 3:25 A.M. Ice on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CTZ009&warncounty=CTC001&firewxzone=CTZ009&local_place1=Greenwich%20CT&product1=Winter+Weather+Advisory&lat=41.049&lon=-73.623#.Wj9i-jdryUk . CIO
12/24/17 Sunday 2:55 A.M. I bought for 99 cents https://www.amazon.com/KING-JAMES-BIBLE-VerseSearch-Letter-ebook/dp/B00D19RE92/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1514100604&sr=8-3&keywords=king+james+bible+kindle+edition , I put it on my Kindle Reader and my two Ipads and my Apple Laptop. I am just about done installing the Windows Update on the Dell Latitude D6410 laptop. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/24/17 Sunday 2:30 A.M. I went outside again. I watched on Acorn TV series 5 episode 7 of "A Place to Call Home". I went outside again. CIO
12/24/17 Sunday 12:50 A.M. It looks like the http://www.barcelonawinebar.com is now reopened again after the fire just west of the top of Greenwich Avenue. I was in Barcelona, Spain in the winter of 1972. I even saw a well dressed tall man walking down Greenwich Avenue the other day that looked like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_VI_of_Spain . CIO
12/24/17 Sunday 12:40 A.M. I went outside again. I ate one ounce of whole cashew nuts and a 16 ounce Maria Callender beef pot pie and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/23/17 Saturday 11:15 P.M. I bought for $36 with Coupon Code "WOW25" https://www.groupon.com/deals/wine-insiders-1780?utm_source=groupon_transaction_succeeded&utm_medium=email&user=69b68fa31ff861bd46713b7657ec6eba5b0991e4782a056d188710ce15f6b0ad&date=20171224&uu=b0d984ba-1234-11e4-9921-00259060b5be&CID=US&s=body&c=link&d=deal-url&utm_campaign=groupon_transaction_succeeded_20171224 with free shipping. Well even Jesus drank a little bit of wine. I might use it for cooking or just store it, and let it age.
I used the $50 off $75 coupon that they gave me on that purchase above, and for free and $29.95 shipping and $5.40 tax, I am also getting a case of of the White International Collection for $35.35 total linked from the coupon voucher page at http://wineinsiders.com/vouchers at https://wineinsiders.com/ .
https://www.jacquielawson.com/join?purl=/?_dept:108662|cardnum:3474509
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akihito I will now go outside again. CIO
12/23/17 Saturday 9:10 P.M. On the Dell Latitude E6410 laptop, I installed the latest version of Norton Internet Security, and I am now installing the Windows Updates. On rainy days, I do computer maintenance. CIO
12/23/17 Saturday 8:30 P.M. I went outside again, and I chatted with a neighbor. I chatted with a relative. I have anothe relative moving to Manhattan, so I will have two relatives in Manhattan. I setup the bedroom Haier 32 inch TV again to work with Roku, Netflix, and Acorn TV. It also works off the bedroom cable box. I do not watch much television in the bedroom, but a few times I have been sick in the past, I have enjoyed watching the bedroom TV. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/23/17 Saturday 7:15 P.M. $350 https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sharp-50-class-49-5-diag--led-2160p-smart-4k-ultra-hd-tv-roku-tv/5746805.p?ref=199&loc=PjSPMxQzRaw&acampID=1&siteID=PjSPMxQzRaw-i8ugavNtMAjwekojIX9AWg
I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . Not much cheap from China. CIO
12/23/17 Saturday 6:20 P.M. I went outside again. I will now shower and clean up. I will not be going out in the rain, because I might melt like the wicked witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz. CIO
12/23/17 Saturday 5:50 P.M. I went outside again. I chatted with a relative. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. Basically considering that lawyers in Manhattan can cost $2,000 to $5,000 an hour, it is not worth visiting Manhattan, unless one has a lot of money. I think out here in the sticks, lawyers cost about $800 an hour. When I was poor, I even ended up sleeping on the red leather couch in the basement of the www.yale.edu law school. I am just a simple poor law abiding citizen who lives around a lot of very wealthy people whom tend to do what they want to do. I even have a relative on the west coast whom is a very good lawyer. Another relative's family even started the Northwestern University Law school and another diseased relative was one of the top lawyers in Texas. Back in 1973, I even had two relatives working as paralegals at Davis, Polk, Wardwell and Cravath and Swaine and Moore. My last roommate in Manhattan worked for Cyrus Vance's law firm, and his son is now the District Attorney in Manhattan. Alas with all of my connections, I was honest, and I never made any money for what it is worth. In the old days, one could go P.J. Clarke's in Manhattan next to the F.D.R. post office building on Third Avenue, and one would see a lot of tall men carrying guns whom were supposed to be assistant District Attorneys. I think www.columbia.edu has a law school too. CIO
12/23/17 Saturday 4:05 P.M. I woke up, and I ate one ounce of whole cashew nuts. I finally woke up at 3:30 P.M.. I picked up the mail. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
12/23/17 Saturday 5:00 A.M. On my red and white Amarillo plant that I bought used from the Stop and Shop for $3 two years ago at Christmas time which took a year to bloom last Christmas. This year, the main bulb has not sprouted, but on the side there is one shoot with two 16 inch leaves, so I do not think it will bloom in time for Christmas, but who knows maybe by Russian Orthodox Christmas on January 7, 2018. There usually is not much traffic on Christmas Eve. When I lived at 700 Steamboat Road around 1987, I went to Christmas Service at Christ Church at 8 P.M., and after that I drove into Manhattan to St. John's Cathedral, and I found a parking place right in front, and I attended the three hour Christmas Eve Communion Service with several thousand people, and then I drove back to Greenwich. The first Christmas back in Greenwich in December 1983, I got change at the Y.M.C.A., and I bought a pack of cigarettes at the Chinese restaurant next door. I then walked downtown, and I ate a turkey croissant at Rue de Croissant with deja vue friends from Key West, Cliff Robertson and Dina Merrill. I then took the train into Manhattan, and the subway down to Greenwich Village. Nobody was around. I met a Danish visitor that looked like Richard Chamberland, and he was a house guest of Harry Helmsley, and we walked around Greenwich Village chatting, and he called up Harry Helmsley every half hour from a pay phone. We then departed company, and I returned to Greenwich and 100 Milbank Avenue, where I was living. That following Christmas morning, I recall seeing the headline in the newspaper box that Harry Helmsley had bought the old Dunellen estate up on Round Hill Road. I think a couple of days before that, I had visited a pub in Manhattan, and I met somebody that drank www.perrier.com and Angostura Bitters, and he was with twin boys. He paid a $1,500 bar check for all of the people in the pub. He told he was the doctor in charge of trying to get diplomats to quit drinking alcohol at the www.un.org and that he was going to spend Christmas with Happy Rockefeller. He even looked a bit like Nelson Rockefeller, so he might have been a relative of theirs. After those two ventures into Manhattan after spending two earlier weeks there homeless at the East Side Airlines terminal where there was Wolf Peugeot, I did not venture into Manhattan for a long time. Possibly, when I got my yellow Volkswagen dasher around October 1986, I might have ventured into the City, but it is so long ago, I can not remember. Also I think when I was first back in Greenwich, I also went into Manhattan a third time, and I went to a pub behind the Natural History museum, and I walked somebody back to the Swiss hotel just west of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and that might have been Scott Nelson who I met again out here in White Plains about five years later. Before I got the yellow Dasher, I spent a lot of time walking up and down Greenwich Avenue and Steamboat Road to use the Greenwich Library in the afternoon and eat dinner at the Greenwich Hospital. The Greenwich Food Mart was then on lower Greenwich Avenue, so I could buy yogurt and orange juice for breakfast. I did do a little cooking on a hot plate on Steamboat Road. The A&P sold a one pound package of frozen liven for $2, and I would fry it up with onions. I think I went into Manhattan a fourth time after I returned to Greenwich. I recalled meeting somebody that looked like George W. Bush, and the guy owned a French restaurant in Midland, Texas. I told him Saks had miss priced men's cashmere robes for $85 instead of $850, and he went over there and bought 10 for $85. Of course, when one meets somebody in Manhattan, one usually never sees them again. Things are a lot better now, since I am better organized in a larger apartment. Of course it has taken 34 years to reach this state of development, and I have been in my current apartment in Byram for 29 years. CIO
12/23/17 Saturday 4:10 A.M. $300 same day pickup https://www.bestbuy.com/site/toshiba-50-class-49-5-diag--led-2160p-with-chromecast-built-in-4k-ultra-hd-tv/5733300.p?skuId=5733300&ref=199&loc=isIkAyUyNbM&acampID=1&siteID=isIkAyUyNbM-BiRvfxX9IfZK7cJXzA8qMA
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12/23/17 Saturday 3:50 A.M. I ate 10 buttermilk biscuits with Smart Balance Spread and a glass of cold filtered water. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
12/23/17 Saturday 3:05 A.M. Queen Elizabeth II photo https://www.facebook.com/groups/248230842361827/311387879379456/
Norwegian Royal Family photos https://www.facebook.com/pg/Mette-Marit-Crown-Princess-of-Norway-1487946078090522/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2017527798465678
http://www.boutique-chateauversailles.fr/fr/librairie/1357-les-paradis-secrets-de-marie-antoinette
https://www.royal.uk/new-portrait-duke-edinburgh-released
http://mineralsciences.si.edu/
I will now venture out on a damp morning. CIO
12/23/17 Saturday 2:15 A.M. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. It rained a little bit. CIO
12/23/17 Saturday 1:45 A.M. There might be some big people or real porkers in this area. They are selling two inch thick New York Strip steaks at the Stop and Shop, if you do not worry about your cholesterol. I ate the other half of the Knorr teriyaki rice mixture with a 8.75 ounce Stouffer's Lean Cuisine sweet and sour Korean beef and rice meal and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/23/17 Saturday 1:00 A.M. I went downtown. I stopped by the Stop and Shop on West Putnam Avenue. I bought buy one get one free of six packs of Thomas' English muffins for $4.39 both, a wedge of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese for $4.99 a pound for $7.04, four 5.4 ounce Knorr rice mixtures for $1 each, a 12 ounce Heinz home-style gravy for $2 and .50 can return for $16.93 total. I then went downtown to Greenwich Avenue. It was very slow out and only a few pub crawlers. I went by www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought for $11 off a CVS Maximum Strength Severe Cold and Flu night and daytime package for $5.99 and a two 7 ounce package of Blade sensitive skin shaving gell for $5.69 and .35 tax for $12.04 total. I then went further downtown. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations. I used the bathroom at a near empty www.starbucks.com . After my walk, I watched Starbucks close at 11 P.M. just after usual http://bennettfamilyfarm.biz/ milk delivery. I guess they consume a lot of milk and cream there. I then stopped CVS at 644 West Putnam Avenue. I bought a 18.25 ounce can of CVS Gold Emblem whole cashew nuts for $7.99, a 17.5 ounce can of CVS Gold Emblem Deluxe mix nuts without peanuts for $7.99, a five pack of Bic lighters for $7.39, and four 16.3 ounce Campbell's Well Yes roasted chicken with wild rice soup for $6 all and .46 tax for $29.73 total. The CVS cash register on West Putnam Avenue has been printing out garbled cash register receipts recently. I then returned home. I sat outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. I put away my purchases. I will now go outside again. I guess one of my long lost friends from Brazil discounts nuts this time of year, so we will not be starving. CIO
12/22/17 Friday 7:45 P.M. I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors. I threw out the garbage. For a lot of people whom live near the tropical area around New York City, they have to realize that New York State goes all the way up to the Canadian border. In Syracuse, New York; they can get 15 feet of snow in the winter. Up in Buffalo, New York near Lake Erie, they get the "Lake Effect"; where they can get 20 feet of snow in one snow fall. A major company out of Illinois called http://www.navistar.com/ makes some of the heavy equipment they might need to move snow, ice, sand, and salt. Mrs. McCormick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Harvester used to be in charge of the woman's republican organization in the Nixon era. I will now shower and clean up, and I will go downtown to see the remains of the day. Of course https://www.wm.com and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Huizenga know how to use the heavy equipment. I think there might be a few Canadians that also work for them in the winter. I will now go outside again before cleaning up. CIO
12/22/17 Friday 6:25 P.M. Having lived in Weston, Massachusetts before returning to Greenwich, Connecticut in June 1973, I know a lot of prominent people vacation and visit www.nantucket.net . I knew the family that started the Nantucket Yacht Club, and their father was also on the Board of Overseers at www.harvard.edu . Way out in Lake Forest, Illinois, I knew the Grannis family, and they also vacationed out in Nantucket. However, I never saw them there, but I know from one of their weddings at the Thousand Islands up around Saute St. Marie, they knew Howard Hughes. I ended up working for the Grennon family out in Nantucket at http://languedocbistro.com/ . The Grannis' older brother Johnny Grannis, I never met, but he was in the New York State Legislature representing the Upper East Side of Manhattan, so he probably knew one or two people. I ate a clementiine. I went outside, and I drank my coffee, and I chatted with a neighbor. I chatted with a friend. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. CIO
12/22/17 Friday 5:05 P.M. There is an accident between exit 4 and 5 northbound on I-95 http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/DOT-Multi-vehicle-crash-closes-center-lane-of-12450879.php . I bet Greenwich Avenue is busy with stranded Holiday travelers. CIO
12/22/17 Friday 4:45 P.M. I ate one ounce of whole cashew nuts before going to bed. I woke up at 4 P.M.. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. I picked up the mail. I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with Equal sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and preserves, a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk, and vitamins and supplements. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/22/17 Friday 6:05 A.M. I went outside again. The early morning risers are just beginning to rise. In the old days, when I had more authority, I used to walk the whole length of Greenwich Avenue in the early morning with all of the garbage men and other early morning people. Alas, I have gotten older. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will eat a clementine, and I will go to bed. Bon Soir. I only studied high school French for five years and Latin for six years, so I am not very multi lingual. Fred Von Mierers spoke about nine or more different languages, but he basically did not know what people were talking about despite his linguistic skills. In language translation, a lot things are taken out of context, and not to mention every language has different dialects. Prince Edward of England is suppose to speak 40 different dialects of English. CIO
12/22/17 Friday 5:30 A.M. There is a very bright light over at Putnam Green that turns on at about this hour of the morning shining at the picnic tables at the east end of this building. I guess it is on a timer. About a month ago or so, they put in new sod around the parameter of the baseball field in the back yard. To keep the local athletes from messing up the new sod, they installed seven foot tall metal posts at the bases and pitcher mound with ropes strung from them. What bothers me, it was always my understanding that in some sort of an emergency the playing field could be used to land a helicopter. However, in an emergency the metal posts might interfere with the helicopter blades which swing lower. Somebody should remove those metal stakes. We have plenty of cheap sod in America, and helicopters are very expensive. It was some sort of non English speaking people doing the landscaping and installing the metal stakes.
12/22/17 Friday 4:40 A.M. I bought https://www.13deals.com/store/products/48893-2-pack-of-energizer-auto-design-led-slim-nightlights-dark-light-sensor for $6.49 with free shipping. I then figured out how to order it again with coupon code "ENERGIZER1218" for $3.24 with free shipping. Thus I will have four LED night lights. There was something in the eastern sky hovering and moving slowly high up in the sky with red and white blinking lights. I could not see clearly from the north end of the building, since the trees obscured part of the view. I will now go outside again. With a helicopter factory in the area, it might be one of their newer vehicles. CIO
12/22/17 Friday 3:55 A.M. https://www.mx.com/moneysummit/biggest-banks-by-asset-size-united-states . CIO
12/22/17 Friday 3:40 A.M. Maybe President Donald J. www.wh.gov Trump could buy the Great Wall of China and move it to the Mexican border. From what I have learned from most of the wealthy Mexicans in this area, instead of traveling by land, they take Aero Mexico; which they seem to be able to afford. I went to www.lfc.edu back in 1968 to 1972 with the then President of Mexico's daughter, so they do not seem to mind the colder weather up north. I think in one old map I looked at Mexico runs all the way up to Alaska. Down in the Key West, when I was there in the mid 1970s, when it was cheaper and not too far away from Homestead Air Force base at the beginning of the Florida Keys, I was told there were lots of http://www.norad.mil/ from the www.af.mil down there that would spend a month or two up on the DEW line in Northern Canada at the Artic Circle and then come down for a week or two in the Florida Keys to thaw out. I think it is also cheaper to maintain jets in warmer weather, when you figure out how much it costs to heat an aircraft hanger up north. Of course you can check with this guy https://www.noradsanta.org/ . I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . It really does not get that cold in Greenwich, Connecticut in the winter compared to the rest of the north country, because we are next to the ocean which keeps it a bit warmer. CIO
12/22/17 Friday 3:10 A.M. Be cheap, get this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B03DREM/ref=asc_df_B00B03DREM5310035/?tag=hyprod-20&creative=395033&creativeASIN=B00B03DREM&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198064987379&hvpos=1o4&hvnetw=g&hvrand=898842987934117170&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003454&hvtargid=pla-320575991996 , or make your own https://www.pinterest.com/pin/477451997975769140/ or small stuffed https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=101870656&source=CAPLA_DF:101870656:TRUS&cagpspn=plat_25EACF1C&camp=PLAPPCG-_-PID25EACF1C:TRUS&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4NaVlJSd2AIVA7bACh3LYA5cEAQYAiABEgKwXvD_BwE . I will now go outside again. CIO
12/22/17 Friday 2:55 A.M. I ate four ounces of whole cashew nuts and two 3/8th inch by 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch slices of Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese, and earlier I ate the same amount of cheese before dinner. I tried to relax a while to see if I could possibly get any new brain storms. There are supposed to be 110 million people traveling on the highways this Holiday weekend. http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalityfacts/overview-of-fatality-facts So be careful. CIO
I will now go outside once again. CIO
12/22/17 Friday 1:05 A.M. Get Sloshed $20 off with coupon code "BUY" https://www.groupon.com/deals/heartwood-oak-holiday-wine-gift-set-national?p=1&utm_source=newsletter_im&utm_medium=email&t_division=fairfield-county&user=69b68fa31ff861bd46713b7657ec6eba5b0991e4782a056d188710ce15f6b0ad&date=20171221&uu=b0d984ba-1234-11e4-9921-00259060b5be&CID=US&tx=0&s=msg&c=19435&d=generic_message-page&utm_campaign=8900c17d-1eef-4854-9938-b06817bf6337_0_20171221
https://stopandshop.com/coupons-weekly-circular/weekly-circular/
https://www.britannica.com/event/Pan-Am-flight-103?source=ONTHISDAY
https://www.gcds.net/support-gcds/give-online
I will now go back outside into the local Siberian Tundra. CIO
12/21/17 Thursday 11:55 P.M. I ate half of a Knorr teriyakii Rice mixture and refrigerated the other half in a Rubbermaid container. I ate it with a 10.25 ounce Banquet Swedish meatballs and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I will now go out and bay at the moon. CIO
12/21/17 Thursday 10:55 P.M. I went downtown to Greenwich Avenue. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I chatted with https://www.roddandgunn.com/us about Maui and Hawaii. I was too late for the www.apple.com store, since they had closed. I chatted with the https://www.samuelowengallery.com/ . That seven foot long crocodile sculpture is made out of cardboard, and it costs $6,000. I toured the www.cvs.com store, and I bought a six pack of 8 ounce Christmas www.coke.com for $4.99 and .30 bottle deposit and .32 tax for $5.61 total. I chatted with a local sports car driver about Florence, Italy. After I finished my walk, I sat out for a while on an extremely slow night. I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com . I then went by the https://www.acmemarkets.com/ , and I bought a 64 ounce Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice for $1.88, a 64 ounce Ocean Spray crangrape juice for $1.88, three 10.25 ounce Banquet Swedish meatballs for $5 all, and three 16 ounce Stouffer's stuffed peppers for $1.99 each for $14.73 total. I then returned home. I chatted with neighbors. I put away my groceries. I will now go outside again. I guess all of the Holiday traffic has passed through town. CIO
12/21/17 Thursday 6:00 P.M. I chatted with two relatives. I will now go outside again. I will then shower and clean up. I will then go downtown to Greenwich Avenue to see the remains of the day. There is no point in playing Ace's High scratch cards at Zyn Stationary. My luck ran out, and I have not won in over a year. CIO
12/21/17 Thursday 5:25 P.M. I ordered ten in E12, warm white, 120 volt, 24 led, 20 w, https://www.ebay.com/itm/E12-E14-E27-B22-5730-SMD-LED-Corn-Bulb-Lamp-Candle-Light-Cool-White-AC110V-220V-/272324589210?_trksid=p5731.m3795 for $1.16 each and minus 30 cent discount with free shipping for $11.30 total. I do not want to overload that slow boat from China. CIO
12/21/17 Thursday 5:10 P.M. I went outside again, and I threw out the garbage. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?tLabels=9405509699938054694381 on the order for $9 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Philips-Clock-Radio-Includes-A-Charging-Station-For-Android-iPhones-4-5/132435585660?hash=item1ed5c6aa7c:g:bnEAAOSwOA1Z9oSx and $8.70 shipping for $17.70 total arrived. CIO
12/21/17 Thursday 4:40 P.M. I went outside, and I drank my coffee. I ate a clementine. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I will then go outside again. CIO
12/21/17 Thursday 3:15 P.M. I woke up at 2:30 P.M.. I went outside. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
12/21/17 Thursday 5:00 A.M. I watched series 5 episode 6 of "A Place to Call Home". I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go outside. I will then go to bed. CIO
12/21/17 Thursday 3:55 A.M. King Leopold of Belgium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_I_of_Belgium used to be the wealthiest European monarch, when Belgium owned the Belgium Congo, but today without their colony and with the fact that Belgium has the highest population density in the world and is only the size of Fairfield County, Connecticut, the money does not go that far, which is probably why the Belgium Royal family is so thin and healthy. CIO
12/21/17 Thursday 3:35 A.M. I ate 10 buttermilk biscuits and a glass of cold filtered water. The European royalty advertise a lot, but for example somebody like Prince Charle's only income is from his dairy farm, so basically he produces milk. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/21/17 Thursday 2:45 A.M. https://egu2018.eu/pico.html
http://volcano.si.edu/reports_weekly.cfm
Tracking is http://www.dhl.com/en/express/tracking.html?AWB=9241990101549212930410&brand=DHL on the order for https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0070545901/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used for $5.28 and $1 shipping for $6.28 total.
https://www.westfield.com/westfieldworldtradecenter/holiday/experiences
I renewed my www.aarp.org membership for another year for $16. It is good through May 2019.
The Royals https://www.facebook.com/groups/248230842361827/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5199461/Queen-Mathilde-attends-annual-Christmas-concert.html Belgium Royal Family
I will now go outside again.
CIO
12/21/17 Thursday 1:40 A.M. I reheated and ate the other half of the Knorr teriyaki rice mixture with two White Castle cheeseburger and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. CIO
12/21/17 Thursday 1:05 A.M. I put away the clean laundry. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/21/17 Thursday 12:25 A.M. I ordered 10 E27 24 LED warm white https://www.ebay.com/itm/E12-E14-E27-LED-Corn-Bulb-5730-SMD-Light-Led-Lamps-Candle-lights-AC110V-220V-/272351464695?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l4275.c10&var=571227852259 for $1.27 each and .30 discount for $12.60 total with free shipping on a slow boat from China. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 11:40 P.M. I have 55 minutes to go on two dry cycles. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 11:05 P.M. I showered, and I cleaned up. I have 30 minutes to go on two wash cycles. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 10:20 P.M. I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors. The local police are here giving parking tickets to three people parked illegally in handicap parking places. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 9:40 P.M. I went outside again. I put clean linens on the bed. I put four more 60 LED light bulbs in various light fixtures in the living room and four more in the bedroom. Thus all of the lights in the apartment are LED except the bath and kitchen and hallway florescent bulbs and the two torpedo bulbs above the Rembrandt print of "Polish Rider' and the red light in the bedroom and the florescent bulb in the bedroom lamp and the little elephant light in the living room. That might save a bit on the electricity bill. The apartment is well lighted up, since I am awake at night a lot of the time. I still have four LED 60 watt bulbs left and the old Compact Florescent bulbs I took out. I have them stored above and to the right of the Sony CD player behind the small flags in the living room and in the left hallway bookcase. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 8:50 P.M. TV deal https://www.ebay.com/itm/Insignia-49-Class-48-5-Diag-LED-1080p-HDTV/192345600239?rmvSB=true&rmvSB=true
I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . The Chinese are not giving away anything. You know the Great Wall of China did not work, so maybe they should start selling the Great Wall of China brick by brick. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 8:30 P.M. I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. I watered the plants. While I was sleeping today, I was awaken three times by telemarketers trying to refinance my credit card, which I do not have. I pressed 9 twice to delete myself from their list, but they keep calling and waking me up. I think they call from Asia, so maybe one of my friends on the West Coast can cut the Trans Pacific telephone line, so they do not keep bothering me. If they bother me, they are probably bothering millions of other people. One of my neighbors told me, we have UFOs from Albany, New York flying around here at night. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 8:00 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I chatted with a relative. A neighbor told me it is supposed to be 54 degrees Fahrenheit here on this Saturday. When I built the garage apartment for Vivian West who lived next to the Plandome Manor, Long Island railroad station from April 1982 to February 1983, they had a Wright Brothers Hardware store in Manhasset, Long Island and Mr. Grumman of Grumman aircraft lived in their neighborhood, so they must have had some sort of means of air travel. The granddaughter Laura Brody sold the house and moved to Summit, New Jersey, where Charles Lindbergh once lived, and the youngest granddaughter was the first European to go to work for Air China as a flight attendant, and the father was in the United States State Department in Libya, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia; so possibly other people still travel out there regularly. Vivian's ex-husband was the geologist out of the University of Toronto that explored North America for the oil companies. Possibly since one of the oldest Getty gasoline stations in America was out there, maybe the Getty family had a house out there. Vivian told me the Saudi Arabian princes used to walk around out there in their long flowing robes in the late 1940s. Possibly her husband was the geologist that discovered the oil in Saudi Arabia for J. Paul Getty and was paid fifty thousand dollars for discovering it. W. Averill Harriman's sister's son lived nearby in Sands Point, Long Island, and the www.ibm.com country club used to be out there. However, if one is used to the simple rural environment of suburban Connecticut, it is six to ten times busier out there. Nassau Country is supposed to be the wealthiest county in the United States of America. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 6:30 P.M. I woke up at 5:30 P.M.. The order with tracking number of "61299990247734251580" at www.fedex.com for https://www.ebay.com/p/12-X-60-Watt-Equivalent-Slimstyle-A19-LED-Light-Bulb-Soft-White-2700k/2164369371?iid=391415288268&_trkparms=5373%3A0%7C5374%3AFeatured%7C5079%3A6000002342 for $21.98 with free shipping arrived. The order with tracking number of "731883751717" at www.fedex.com on the order in 52" X 30" in black http://www.josbank.com/traveler-collection-tailored-fit-flat-front-comfort-waist-twill-pants-big-tall-clearance for $21.99 and $1.40 tax for $23.39 total with free shipping arrived. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I chatted with a relative. I went outside again. I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with Equal sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and preserves, a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk, and vitamins and supplements. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 7:35 A.M. I was told, when I was way out in Nantucket, that submarine captains during War never slept, but they took 20 minute cat naps. In the old days up north, they had a little known group called the Green Mountain boys, but it really is not yet cold enough for them around here. It is supposed to be minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit on top of the mountain at Stowe, Vermont in the winter. The Watson family of IBM fame started Smuggler's Notch next to Stowe, Vermont. In the old days in Manhattan, a few people from Vermont would stand out all day and all night at First Avenue and Beekman Place and Broadway and 72nd Street selling Christmas Trees, but if one does not know how to maintain a Christmas tree they can be a fire hazard. That is why a lot of people now use artificial Christmas trees. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. The rich people that might be too lazy to go away on Holidays might still be here, and they do not like to see the poor people loitering downtown all of the time. At night when most of the people are watching video media, there are a few night time people going about their business. Bon Soir. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 7:05 A.M. I have a theory, if one keeps a cat or a kitten around, a Mountain Lion will not bother you, because it respects other cats. When I knew the Christ Church maintenance person from Northeastern Vermont mountains, he had a claw mark on his shoulder, so that is why I thought he kept the little black and white tuxedo cat around to protect the church. Of course he also was into witch craft, which I do not know anything about, but I think some of the women in Nantucket did, since one of the main restaurants in the center of town was the "Company of the Caldron". Of course the Scottish might know something about Druids. You know those people that walk around in the woods talking with trees. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 6:40 A.M. So you like hiking in the California Mountains with your children http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171218-what-its-like-living-in-californias-mountain-lion-country , you better carry an M80 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava_M80 or an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi . CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 6:30 A.M. I leant a neighbor a pack of cigar cigarettes. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 5:55 A.M. The Flying Dutchman https://www.royal-house.nl/members-royal-house/king-willem-alexander/flying . CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 5:45 A.M. That might be the planet Venus in the southeast sky, but it seems to be lighted up around like it has a ring around it like maybe the planet Saturn. Who knows maybe it is some stationary communications relay satellite handling all of the wireless devices in this area. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . I was told tonight that one of the major internet players is living in the area, but with www.ibm.com that has always been the case. Nobody ever communicates with me, so I guess I must be pretty good at delegating authority, but I am not paying for it. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 5:25 A.M. I chatted with Optimum about a minor technical problem. The tech person told me they had a relative killed in the wealthiest neighborhood in Manhattan while visiting a jewelry store, so I guess Manhattan is still not safe anymore despite what the media says. I went outside again. I ate a 5 ounce bag of Texas Toast parmesan Caesar croutons and about 2.5 ounces of Cracker Barrel Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese. I read the reason that beef and other meat product got so expensive is that there was a major drought in Texas and the Southwest that caused cattlemen to downsize their herds. The Stop and Shop on West Putnam Avenue has become more upscale. They now have a gourmet meat counter and seafood counter that looks interesting. Alas the only two people in there late at night were only buying eggs. I will now go outside again. Of course the second to the last Microsoft Conference I went to 12 years ago out in Hauppauge, Long Island had about three thousand people, but most of them were Vegans, except for the six foot wide six foot tall white man. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 3:55 A.M. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
https://www.facebook.com/groups/248230842361827/ The Royals. Some of them are tiny people.
https://www.facebook.com/ted.eaton.1/posts/1560035827414446
When I worked at http://languedocbistro.com/ out in www.nantucket.net , the owners were the sons of the Warden of the Concorde Reformatory in Concorde, Massachusetts; so the people around them tended to be well behaved. They also had the ski pub in https://www.stowe.com/ called Sister Kate's where their father's law books were on display. I think they were Liberals but cold weather people, since Ian Greenshield from Montreal worked with them, and he looked like Sean Connery, and he used to be Jackie Kennedy's bodyguard in Stowe, Vermont, where he built barns. He lived above the fire house in Nantucket. The last job I had in Nantucket before leaving for good was painting the trim on Admiral Halsey's house on the Polpis Road. It was full of bees. Also the Reverend William Sloan Coffin of www.yale.edu fame worked for them as a carpenter. Also on Nantucket, I had breakfast when I lived on India Street at the Dory restaurant where Henry Cabot Lodge Junior had breakfast. I think he was Richard Nixon's ambassador to Viet Nam, so he was probably conservative. Up there with the Pilgrims, the Lodges only talk with the Lowells and the Lowells only talk with the Cabots and the Cabots only talk to God, if you get my drift.
I think this is where the Aga Khan lives in Manhattan https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451666195/ref=pe_2802110_265090530_em_1p_0_ti
Since Iphone 3 GS docking station is coming from Andrew Jackson country, maybe Elvis will show up with it.
Bargain for local pickup if you happen to be in the San Francisco area https://www.frys.com/product/9012657 .
Cheapest big TV with free shipping I can find https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sceptre-50-Class-FHD-1080P-LED-TV-X505BV-FSR/631796609?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&adid=22222222227091323909&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=204412959547&wl4=pla-335204280412&wl5=9003457&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=631796609&wl13=&veh=sem .
I will now go out to the Great Outdoors again. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 1:55 A.M. I also chatted with somebody from Michigan who goes to https://www.amherst.edu/ , and I told him about the British professor there named Simon Winchester who has written a number of interesting books including ones about volcanoes. My primary language is English, so I frequently have to rely on the British whom are supposed to be experts in English, but they never tell us very much but write long books. Since I have never been in the United Kingdom, I do not know what it is really like except for our media and publications in this country. I do know it is a smaller country with 65 million people whom are well organized, so basically if they have anything to tell us, they will figure out a way to do it sooner or later. Since my primary field study at www.lfc.edu was economics, I have found very few people know anything about it in the general population or even know how to talk about it. If one is interested in it and to refresh my memory, I bought https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0070545901/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used for $5.28 and $1 shipping for $6.28 total. I had a copy, but when I had a relative suggest that I throw away my personal library, I threw it out. I did buy a book recently about the Rockefeller house over in North Tarrytown, but I have not had time to read it. I guess by old European standards it is a smaller house, but David Rockefeller had a PHD in Economics from the University of Chicago, so more than likely somebody left in their family knows something about Economics. Actually the true definition of Economics is "How Runs One's Home." I got interested in thrift as a youngster, when I was reading Uncle Scrooge comic books always having problems with his three nephews. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 1:10 A.M. I ate half of a Knorr teriyakii Rice mixture and refrigerated the other half in a Rubbermaid container. I ate it with two White Castle cheeseburgers and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca and a clementine. I will now go outside to survey the local tundra. My personal viewpoint on Prince Harry's sudden engagement was that I had hoped an influential friend of mine's daughter might marry him. They obviously know each other, but her family has enough money to survive, if you get my drift. So much for peace. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 1:05 A.M. I saw somebody downtown that is going hunting that looks like Dwight David Eisenhower, when he was younger. CIO
12/20/17 Wednesday 1:05 A.M. Keep Your Hear to the Ground !
12/19/17 Tuesday 11:55 P.M. Also I did not buy the usual McCormick peppercorns for the same price, because they come with a grinder lid that is hard to get off. Back on July 4, 1976 during the Tall Ships Festival in Manhattan, I met somebody from Newport, Rhode Island that looked like Prince Charles, and he told me his family owned McCormick spices https://www.mccormick.com/ which is quite a complex operation with their worldwide sources. CIO
12/19/17 Tuesday 11:50 P.M. I went downtown to Greenwich Avenue. I went by www.cvs.com , and I exchanged the blue USB power adapter for a new one for free. I chatted with a relative. I went further downtown. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I toured the www.apple.com store. I chatted briefly with another cigarette smoker. I told him around 1989, one could go to AAA Travel on High Ridge Road in Stamford, Connecticut, and it cost $800 round trip to fly to Munich, Germany on Lufthansa, and take a bus to Innsbruck, Austria with a week's stay at a hotel with breakfast and dinner. I told him that at the University of Innsbruck, they study 18 hours a day seven days a week. I told him that they do not use cash registers in Innsbruck, but change purses, except in the small mall. I told him in the International Herald Tribune, there was an article from someone at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute that NASA could achieve the same goals by using micro robotics for a tenth the price of actually putting a human in space. I also mentioned that https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-empty-tomb-of-maximilian-i . I also told him that one can still smoke cigarettes in a coffee shop in Vienna, Austria. The cigarette smoke looked a bit like Andrew Mellon III, but a lot of Irish jockeys have that look. He seemed to be afraid to visit Austria, I guess because it is now a neutral country. I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com . I chatted with a new employee from Columbia the country who seemed to be working hard. I chatted with a relative. I went by CVS again. I bought three two ounce minced onions for .49 each for $1.47. I got a $12 bonus bucks coupon, so I bought buy two get one free of 6.2 ounce Crest Pro-Health whitening power toothpaste for $11.98 total with coupon for free. I sat out some more in various locations. I chatted with a couple walking a small dog from Stamford, Connecticut who walk here all of the time. I used the bathroom at Starbucks again. I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue again. The East End bar restaurant was quite busy. I noticed in the art gallery across the street, they have a seven foot long crocodile sculpture on the center floor. I told two young girls they should photograph it and send it to their friends down south. I then sat out a while longer. I also chatted with a frozen yogurt eater about the American Dairy Association. I also chatted with a Junior League volunteer. As usual Tuesday night was dead slow on Greenwich Avenue. I then went by the Stop and Shop. I chatted with a former neighbor from back country. I was told by a store employee that 42 ounce Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal has now gone up to $6.79. I suggested that they sell their own brand for less, but I do not know if they have it in the slower cooking method or just minute oats. I prefer Old Fashioned, since I think it tastes better. I bought three five ounce Texas Toast Parmesan Caesar croutons for $1 each, two 15 ounce Boston Market turkey dinners for $2.50 each, a 2.65 ounce Simply Organic black peppercorns for $6.39 for $14.91 total. I mentioned to a French speaking shopper that possibly Bill Gates of Microsoft might have gotten wealthy because his wife might be from the branch of the French family that are related to the Rockefeller family. Of course, there other family members, whom might be more private. I then returned home. I sat outside briefly. I put away my purchases. I will now go outside again. I also chatted with a www.coke.com employee who was buying whole cashew nuts at CVS. CIO
12/19/17 Tuesday 4:10 P.M. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor, and I drank my coffee. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I will now go outside again. I will pick up my mail. I will shower and clean up. I will go downtown to see the remains of the day on Green Witch Avenue. When Fred Von Mierers was taking over Billy Baldwin's Interior decorating business, when I used his apartment at 420 East 49th Street in Manhattan from October 1973 to February 1975, he called his apartment the "Mouse Palace". I call my apartment the "Mouse Palace East", since we are east of Manhattan. Fred took me to Barbara Rockefeller's townhouse on East 67th Street a number of times, where fellows from www.rockefeller.edu lived. It was a six story town house with a lot of marble, and roof top garden with a big willow tree, where people were allowed to smoke whatever they wanted on the roof. Dealing with www.un.org diplomatic corps, one never knew what people might do next, based on their experience, versus those of us whom lead more private lives out in the suburbs. John Reed who lived in Greenwich was David Rockefeller's ambassador to the United Nations, so his group of people might know more. Of course Henry Kissinger lived near by on East 54th Street across the street from Gretta Garbo who worked for British Intelligence during World War II, and ran the headquarters of British Intelligence on West 13th Street in Manhattan that was called "The Gretta Garbo home for wayward boys". Also East 54th street was where the British political group the Fabians were located, and they got Tony Blair elected. Thus there are probably International Politics going on in Manhattan, depending on whom one has contacts with. Fred spoke about nine foreign languages, so he was able to communicate with the diplomats. Of course in that period George Herbert Walker Bush was the United States government's ambassador to the United Nations, and back then he lived at the Waldorf Towers. Of course like everything else politics change all of the time. CIO
12/19/17 Tuesday 2:00 P.M. I ate a clementine before going to bed. I finally woke up at 1 P.M.. I went outside. The order with tracking number of "741704251949" at www.fedex.com on the order for in black http://www.josbank.com/knit-scarf-hat-set-clearance?utm_source=linkshare&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=generic&utm_campaign=default&ranMID=38377&ranEAID=isIkAyUyNbM&ranSiteID=isIkAyUyNbM-Ut5o1HBMR37.UozIdZknqg&mid=38377&siteID=isIkAyUyNbM-Ut5o1HBMR37.UozIdZknqg for $7.99 and .51 tax with free shipping for $8.50 total arrived. I chatted with my social worker. The Knights of Columbus are going to deliver me a Christmas meal on Christmas Day. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. Tracking is https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?tLabels=9405509699937198847318 on the order for https://www.ebay.com/itm/Philips-Docking-Speaker-sound-dock-works-with-iPOD-iPHONE-or-Android-Black-TV-PC/253173927840?hash=item3af2578fa0:g:XSYAAOSwPCVYA4WL for $25 with free shipping. CIO
12/19/17 Tuesday 4:45 A.M. I went outside again. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. A lot of older people I used to know do not need as much sleep, when they get older. All of the walking that I do all of the time tends to wear me out not to mention the internet activity and my other regular routines. Bon Soir. CIO
12/19/17 Tuesday 3:55 A.M. I went outside again. I reheated and ate the other half of the pizza with a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm .
http://www.gettyimages.com/event/duke-duchess-of-cambridge-christmas-card-775092670#in-this-handout-image-provided-by-kensington-palace-on-december-18th-picture-id894800494 Younger Windsor family Christmas Card. CIO
12/19/17 Tuesday 3:10 A.M. My older Iphone 3 GS is older 30 pin model, so I bought this https://www.ebay.com/itm/Philips-Docking-Speaker-sound-dock-works-with-iPOD-iPHONE-or-Android-Black-TV-PC/253173927840?hash=item3af2578fa0:g:XSYAAOSwPCVYA4WL for $25 with free shipping. The Philips Iphone Radio is newer micro USB connector. CIO
12/19/17 Tuesday 2:10 A.M. On the Iphone 3 GS, the phone has not been charged up recently. I finally figured out the blue USB power adapter that I bought at CVS this past summer was not working. I have a spare one, and it is now charging up. I will try to exchange the bad one at CVS on Greenwich Avenue. I put a free battery power program on the Iphone 3 GS. I went outside again. It is supposed to be 48 degrees today, so I guess all of the warmer weather people will be out and about. CIO
12/18/17 Monday 11:50 P.M. This https://www.ebay.com/itm/SALE-Philips-Docking-Speaker-for-iPod-iPhone-with-Clock-Display-Black/192253921533?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908110712%26meid%3D6f82d57a0ea1477596238dc709830c99%26pid%3D100677%26rk%3D9%26rkt%3D30%26mehot%3Dag%26sd%3D292367158988&_trksid=p2385738.c100677.m4598 for $15.99 with free shipping was cancelled, because they said something was wrong with my shipping address. They refunded the money. I do not really need a second one anyway.
Tracking is https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?tLabels=9405509699938054694381 on the order for $9 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Philips-Clock-Radio-Includes-A-Charging-Station-For-Android-iPhones-4-5/132435585660?hash=item1ed5c6aa7c:g:bnEAAOSwOA1Z9oSx and $8.70 shipping for $17.70 total. More here https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_sop=15&_nkw=Philips+AJT3300+Desktop+Clock+Radio&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1 .
I will now go outside again. CIO
12/18/17 Monday 11:05 P.M. I went outside. I helped a neighbor with my little folding cart bring up two awkward pieces of furniture. I showed the neighbor my Pied A Terre. I then went outside again. CIO
12/18/17 Monday 9:20 P.M. I took at 31.5 ounce DiJourno Supreme pizza, and I put grated parmesan and Romano cheese on it along with garlic powder and extra virgin olive oil. I am baking it on the wire rack in the Farberware convection oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes. I will eat half of it with a glass of diet Fresca, and I will refrigerate the other half in a Rubbermaid container. CIO
12/18/17 Monday 9:05 P.M. I chatted with a friend and a relative. I went outside again. CIO
12/18/17 Monday 7:20 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I went downtown to Greenwich Avenue. The Senior and the Arts Center will not be issuing new parking permits until December 26, 2017. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out at various locations. I toured www.cvs.com , and I chatted with a local golfer. I used the bathroom there. I chatted with the www.att.com store. I chatted with http://us.longchamp.com/store/united-states/longchamp-greenwich . I chatted with a relative and a friend. I sat out for a while after my walk. I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com . After my walk, I went by CVS at 644 West Putnam Avenue. I chatted with a French person wearing a Antarctica polar research station jacket. I chatted with somebody getting a passport pictures for the Bahamas. However, it can be dangerous in the Bahamas, if one gets too much sun. I bought a 24 ounce deluxe Gold Emblem whole cashew nuts for $7.99 and a five pack of Bic lighters for $7.59 and .16 tax for $15.74 total. I then returned home. I sat outside briefly. I picked up the mail. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/18/17 Monday 2:35 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go downtown to Greenwich Avenue. CIO
12/18/17 Monday 1:05 P.M. I ate a clementine before going to bed. I woke up at 10 A.M., and I chatted with a relative. I ate a clementine. I finally woke up at 12:30 P.M.. I went outside. I saw three black crows chasing a hawk. I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with Equal sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and preserves, a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk, and vitamins and supplements. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/18/17 Monday 3:15 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will go outside again. I will then go to bed. CIO
12/18/17 Monday 3:00 A.M. I went outside again. On the right side of the oak dining room table opposite the television, I setup my older $140 MacBook laptop https://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-MacBook-13-3-7-1-Laptop-A1342-4GB-250GB-Bluetooth-Webcam-10-/272451893520?hash=item3f6f65f910:g:glAAAOSwcLxYLHdG that I bought a year ago as an apartment Christmas gift. Although it is older, it works just fine. One has to turn on the second network switch for its LAN with the rear right switch on the power strips to the right of the primary work computer. It has wireless to, but I prefer the LAN. Also I put Skype for Mac on it, and it works just fine. I have it setup with a left side wireless mouse and mouse pad and a headset too. For some reason, its touch pad does not seem to work, although it moves the cursor. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/18/17 Monday 12:25 A.M. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
12/18/17 Monday 12:10 A.M. Tracking number is "731883751717" at www.fedex.com on the order in 52" X 30" in black http://www.josbank.com/traveler-collection-tailored-fit-flat-front-comfort-waist-twill-pants-big-tall-clearance for $21.99 and $1.40 tax for $23.39 total with free shipping.
I will now go outside again. CIO
12/17/17 Sunday 11:05 P.M. I ate a salad of five ounces of Romaine lettuce with 4 ounces of diced Cracker Barrel Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese and five cherry tomatoes and three sliced large mushrooms and six black pitted olives and three ounces of Chatham Village garlic and cheese croutons and eight ounces of cooked and peeled shrimp and grated parmesan and Romano cheese and Wish Bone balsamic and vinaigrette dressing and Wish Bone Spicy Caesar dressing and extra virgin olive oil with ground black pepper and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I will now go outside again. The other morning around sun rise, I noticed large animal foot prints in the snow around our dumpster. I will also throw out the shrimp peelings, since if left around the house, they quickly stink. CIO
12/17/17 Sunday 10:00 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I went downtown to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue. I bought a 24 ounce container of deluxe whole cashews for $7.99, and a box of ten 8.5 ounce www.perrier.com for $4.99 and .50 can deposit and .32 tax for $13.80. I sat outside briefly across the street. I then went further downtown. I chatted with a relative. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I toured the www.apple.com store. They seem to like wearing red. I chatted with two local www.starbucks.com customers. I used the bathroom at Starbucks. I then stopped by CVS again. I bought a 6 packet box of CVS daytime Severe cough and cold medicine for $5.29 total. On the way down Greenwich Avenue, I stopped by CVS again, and I bought a 12 ounce bag of Gold Emblem hazelnut coffee for $5.99. I sat outside across the street again. I chatted with a relative. After I finished my walk, I sat outside some more. I then went by the Stop and Shop on West Putnam Avenue. They refunded me my $2 on the Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal. I bought two Maxwell House 11 ounce breakfast blend coffee for $3 each, two tubes of buttermilk biscuits for .79 each, two 8 ounce bars of Cracker Barrel Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese for $2.50 each, and a discount 8 ounce package cooked peeled shrimp $3.50 for $16 total. I then returned home to Chez Mike's. I sat outside briefly. Somebody left a pair of small red and white pajama bottoms on my door handle. I put them on my neighbor's door handle. I put away my purchases. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/17/17 Sunday 3:40 P.M. I went outside, and I drank my coffee. I also ate a clementine. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go downtown to Greenwich Avenue to see if the trophy wives found any trophies. Greenwich, Connecticut, since I have lived here since 1962 has always been cut to the bone, although a few people make a bit of money in nearby Manhattan. Whenever I go to Manhattan, I just meet a few people from Long Island whom are curious as to why I even there. There are a lot more fair hair people on Long Island, like Greenwich used to have. In Wilton, Connecticut; there are also a lot of fair haired people, but they are a lot bigger and taller than the average Greenwich people. Of course at my age 67, I am now grey haired; so I fit in with the remaining senior citizen population. I am fairly good at conversation, when I can sit inside a warm place and smoke cigarettes; which does not seem to be available anymore. Sooner or later, I will have to try to quit smoking the cigar cigarettes, but two doctors I know told me, they do reduce stress. CIO
12/17/17 Sunday 2:10 P.M. I bought for $9 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Philips-Clock-Radio-Includes-A-Charging-Station-For-Android-iPhones-4-5/132435585660?hash=item1ed5c6aa7c:g:bnEAAOSwOA1Z9oSx and $8.70 shipping for $17.70 total. More here https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_sop=15&_nkw=Philips+AJT3300+Desktop+Clock+Radio&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1 . CIO
12/17/17 Sunday 1:45 P.M. I ordered https://www.ebay.com/itm/SALE-Philips-Docking-Speaker-for-iPod-iPhone-with-Clock-Display-Black/192253921533?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908110712%26meid%3D6f82d57a0ea1477596238dc709830c99%26pid%3D100677%26rk%3D9%26rkt%3D30%26mehot%3Dag%26sd%3D292367158988&_trksid=p2385738.c100677.m4598 for $15.99 with free shipping. CIO
12/17/17 Sunday 1:15 P.M. I woke up, and I ate a clementine. I finally woke up at 12:30 P.M.. I went outside. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 12/17/17
12/17/17 Sunday 3:05 A.M. I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then shut down the primary work computer, and I will go outside. I will then go to bed. Bon Soir. CIO
12/17/17 Sunday 2:35 A.M. I went outside again. I got to thinking about the story of the Duke of Windsor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Windsor abdicating the throne of England. Technically he was also Emperor of India, so possibly he was able to hang on to that job, since he liked hot weather. With a billion people in India, they probably could have insured his privacy. The British have a lot of places to hide out in their https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations , so they must have some group of experts to keep track of long lost travelers. I will now make up a tube of 10 buttermilk biscuits, and put Smart Balance Spread on them, and eat them with a glass of cold filtered water. CIO
12/17/17 Sunday 1:20 A.M. I ordered in 52" X 30" in black http://www.josbank.com/traveler-collection-tailored-fit-flat-front-comfort-waist-twill-pants-big-tall-clearance for $21.99 and $1.40 tax for $23.39 total with free shipping. CIO
12/17/17 Sunday 12:30 A.M. I went outside again. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm looking for bargains. However, at the Holiday time, there are not many bargains. Usually around February, the Chinese start discounting and dumping stuff on the U.S. market. CIO
!!!!!! 12/16/17 Saturday 11:50 P.M. My photos from years past https://www.facebook.com/mikelouisscott009/photos_all . CIO
12/16/17 Saturday 11:30 P.M. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. www.wh.gov has a new contact form https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ . CIO
12/16/17 Saturday 10:20 P.M. I went outside again. I always turn the heat up in my apartment around Christmas Time, however when I get the December electricity bill around the first of January, I end up turning the heat down again. We probably have a lot of the local college students on Christmas break back in town, so as usual when the younger generation are around, odd things happen. In the older days of the internet, my computers were always hacked during college vacations and the beginning of summer vacation. One does not have to be a computer genius to figure out whom might have been doing it. With www.ibm.com having 425,000 employees some of whom might know something about computers, it is more than likely their younger generation are up to mischief or trying to get attention. The Salvation Army bell ring was in front of Starbucks on Greenwich Avenue today, but nobody seemed to be giving him any money. In the olds days the Salvation Army bell ringer at Rockefeller Center looked familiar, but nobody seemed to recognize him. Also Russian Orthodox Christmas https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/russia/christmas-day comes later. CIO
12/16/17 Saturday 9:55 P.M. http://view.reply.reaganfoundation.org/?qs=994a501da3ea37b2f956dda8029f916267d39556b8b9823b156d94045ba2f3808e534a0d80c0945c3267f39e3b5308168ad613c825d9ae4a935b000d6ec17c6f631a85145472c72e
Tracking number is "741704251949" at www.fedex.com on the order for in black http://www.josbank.com/knit-scarf-hat-set-clearance?utm_source=linkshare&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=generic&utm_campaign=default&ranMID=38377&ranEAID=isIkAyUyNbM&ranSiteID=isIkAyUyNbM-Ut5o1HBMR37.UozIdZknqg&mid=38377&siteID=isIkAyUyNbM-Ut5o1HBMR37.UozIdZknqg for $7.99 and .51 tax with free shipping for $8.50 total.
http://business.time.com/2014/02/15/the-10-richest-presidents-in-american-history/ . I will now go outside to the Artic Wonderland Green Picnic Bench for Smokers. I guess smokers are third class citizens, but even when I quit for 2.5 years, things did not get any better. It just reduces stress, if you get my drift. I was once told, people are allowed to smoke in coffee shops in Vienna, Austria, but I do not speak their language. CIO
!!!!!! 12/16/17 Saturday 9:10 P.M. Tired of reading, let your computer do the talking https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/ .
Cut and Paste this into the form with Dutch Marcus voice at -2 speed, and the computer can be the priest, and it sounds like the Duke of Windsor.
Episcopal
Our Father who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever
Amen.
Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Prayer .
CIO
12/16/17 Saturday 8:55 P.M. I went outside. The ice skating rink parking lot is filled to maximum capacity, so there must be some special event going on there. I chatted with a relative. I went outside again. CIO
12/16/17 Saturday 7:40 P.M. No Comment http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/08/priceless-racism-duke-edinburgh-170810082226234.html CIO
12/16/17 Saturday 7:20 P.M. I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors. I ate a salad of five ounces of Romaine lettuce with 4 ounces of diced Cracker Barrel Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese and five cherry tomatoes and four sliced large mushrooms and six black pitted olives and two ounces of Chatham Village garlic and cheese croutons and a 3.75 ounce tin of sardines with oil and grated parmesan and Romano cheese and Wish Bone balsamic and vinaigrette dressing and Wish Bone Spicy Caesar dressing and extra virgin olive oil with ground black pepper and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca and a Clementine. I chatted with a relative. For a change, I watched the www.cbsnews.com evening news. It is a lot of complicated pharmaceutical commercials and mostly human interest stories. When I worked there in the spring of 1973 at their broadcast center doing the paper work for the commercials on an www.ibm.com selectric typewriter, I was fired because I had a hard time making it to work at 10 A.M. in the morning. What the news people never seemed to know is that more people on the planet are awake during our night times. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/16/17 Saturday 5:20 P.M. I went outside again. It is overcast outside, so I could not see the Space Shuttle fly by. Back in the old days of www.nasa.gov , every pound in space cost $2 million, so the astronauts were smaller people. CIO
12/16/17 Saturday 5:05 P.M. For Big Buck Billionaires who can not take the cold https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=3+XL+Canada+Goose+Parka&_sop=15 . My nice used www.llbean.com parka that I bought for $40 on Ebay came from Orlando, Florida, where they obviously do not need it. I think when it was new it cost about $350. Also I have Burgundy L.L. Bean parka that I do not wear to much, although it is very warm, since it has small pockets. I have a number of mild weather jackets, and other heavier winter coats. Two of my heavy winter coats that I bought as clearance items from King Size direct, are warm, but they have cheap zippers, so they do not zip up too easily. Let the buyer beware. CIO
12/16/17 Saturday 4:45 P.M. I picked up the mail. I got a notice from the Connecticut Department of Social Services that my EBT Food stamps are going down from $174 to $167 a month for a $7 decrease, so although my SSI is going up $15 a month, I am actually only getting a $8 COLA increase. This has gone on for 31 years, since I was put on SSI, so in reality, one never gets a real COLA increase over time.
Tracking number is "61299990247734251580" at www.fedex.com for https://www.ebay.com/p/12-X-60-Watt-Equivalent-Slimstyle-A19-LED-Light-Bulb-Soft-White-2700k/2164369371?iid=391415288268&_trkparms=5373%3A0%7C5374%3AFeatured%7C5079%3A6000002342 for $21.98 with free shipping. CIO
12/16/17 Saturday 3:55 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I drove a neighbor to Neighbor to Neighbor at Christ Church. They were busy. We then stopped by at the Shell Station at West Putnam Avenue. I then dropped the neighbor off at our building. I then went downtown Greenwich Avenue. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I figured out if one walks upper Greenwich Avenue first, it is easier when one is rested, and then it is down hill and more gradual on the way up Greenwich Avenue. I used the bathroom at www.cvs.com . I bought buy one get one free of CVS Health 250 soft gels cranberry 4200 mg. for $21.99 both. I chatted with the AT&T store about the Bell family nobody seems to have ever heard about. I think they are also Scottish. I chatted with a relative. I stopped by the swimming suit shop south of St. Mary's, and I briefed them on beaches http://scott-mike.com/mlsbeach.htm . I toured the www.apple.com store, and I chatted with a Senior Citizen about the Roosevelt family and the Bank of New York. I chatted with a local outside the Belgium coffee shop about some British people I have met. I exchange a quarter for two dimes and a nickel for a local shopper, so he would not get a ticket. I think this time of year, they should suspend parking fees to encourage more shopping. At Zyn Stationary I bought an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, and I lost. I chatted with somebody with a very cute Newfoundland puppy about the Winter Olympics. I used the bathroom at www.starbucks.com , and I chatted with somebody wearing a Patagonia jacket about Argentina. I then drove over to the Stop and Shop. I bought a 10 ounce bag of Dole salad greens for $1.99, four Green Giant 10 ounce microwave frozen Brussels Sprouts for $1 each, a five quart box of Stop and Shop powdered milk for $8.19 and for some reason they charged me $6.79 for a 42 ounce Quaker Old Fashioned oatmeal which should have been $2 less for $20.97 total. I chatted with a customer about my trip to Stockholm, Sweden in February 1983, when for some odd reason, I ended up at a military airport in Oslo, Norway. I chatted with a local Byram resident about the Old Guard on Long Island. I went by the Putnam Shell at 401 West Putnam Avenue, and I bought $13 of self service V-Power premium gasoline with ten cents a gallon off with my Stop and Shop card for $3.499 a gallon 3.714 gallons at odometer reading of 116589 miles for 47.9 miles driven since Thursday December 7, 2017 for 12.898 miles per gallon in local traffic. I then returned home. I sat outside briefly. I put away my purchases. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/16/17 Saturday 9:20 A.M. I drank my coffee outside, and I chatted with neighbors. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. I will then drive a neighbor to Neighbor to Neighbor at Christ Church. I will then go downtown to Greenwich Avenue to bask in the sun light. CIO
12/16/17 Saturday 8:05 A.M. I chatted with a local dog walker. For diabetes people https://www.dexcom.com/ . CIO
12/16/17 Saturday 7:15 A.M. I woke up while sleeping, and I ate two White Castle cheeseburgers and a clementine. I finally woke up at 6:15 A.M.. I cleaned two inch of snow off my Volvo wagon. I cleaned the snow off the front benches and the picnic tables on the side. I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with Equal sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and preserves, a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk, and vitamins and supplements. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/15/17 Friday 7:45 P.M. I watched series 5 episode 5 of "A Place to Call Home". I ate a bag of microwave popcorn. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will go outside. I will then go to bed. CIO
12/15/17 Friday 6:15 P.M. https://www.walmart.com/browse/3944?cat_id=3944_1060825_447913&facet=pickup_and_delivery%3A2-Day+Shipping#searchProductResult
https://www.taftschool.org/giving/annual-fund/video
https://www.klm.com/travel/us_en/plan_and_book/special_offers/top_destinations.htm?WT.mc_id=L_US_email_ExactTarget_Newsletter_TopDestinations_Null_SmartFun&WT.tsrc=Email&WT.i_vid=59129346 . I will now go outside again. CIO
12/15/17 Friday 5:50 P.M. I ate five Fig Newtons. I uninstalled the Sigg audio drivers, and I reinstalled them from Adminstrator in order to get the speaker icon to work in the tray of Windows 10. They are not supposed to work with Windows 10, but they do if installed as an Administrator. I installed some more Windows Updates on rebooting. I went outside again. CIO
12/15/17 Friday 4:30 P.M. I woke up at 3:30 P.M., and I chatted with a relative. I shut down the Acer laptop for now, because in the daytime, the Microsoft Windows Apps Update server is too slow. I just remembered to start wearing my Hanes Blue sweat pants https://www.hanes.com/shop/hanes/extended-sizes/mens-big-and-tall/sweats/hanes-mens-sweatpants-p650 , so I do not wear out my https://www.lee.com/?cm_mmc=google-_-brand-_-jeans%20%2d%20colored%20%2d%20blue-_-lee%20blue%20jeans&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=brand%20%2d%20new%20%2d%20gn%20%2d%20phrase&utm_content=jeans%20%2d%20colored%20%2d%20blue&utm_term=lee%20blue%20jeans&ploc=9003435&gclid=Cj0KCQiAgs7RBRDoARIsANOo-HjuUMqkwMhaTJwe3_XSfodDXWCH4Ovk7fWZ5KD0So7lxdQ4cA2MuuYaAmQlEALw_wcB which are very expensive anymore. I went outside, and I threw out the cigar cigarette shipping box. I picked up the mail. One to two inches of snow expected http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.04904598378624&lon=-73.62304748575207&site=all&smap=1#.WjQ90TdryUl . I turned up the living room thermostat to 78 degrees Fahrenheit from 74, since the living room was 67.5 degrees, so it now should be 70 to 72. CIO
12/15/17 Friday 2:20 P.M. I ate a 10.5 ounce Banquet Swedish meatballs with a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca and a clementine. I ate seven Carr's whote wheat crackers with 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch by 3/16th inch slices of Cracker Barrel Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on them. I will now take a nap. CIO
12/15/17 Friday 1:40 P.M. The reason the Acer laptop is slow to start up, it is trying to update all of its apps that have not been updated in about a year which will take some time. I will just leave it running. I went outside briefly. Earlier I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
12/15/17 Friday 12:55 P.M. I went outside a few times. I put the second Ipad 2 underneath the other Ipad 2 on the bedroom desk. I put the Acer laptop on top of the Dell laptop to the left of the primary work computer. On the Acer laptop, I installed the lastest version of Norton Internet Security and other Windows updates. I put a headset on it. At the moment Skype is not working, so I can not configure it. I chatted with a relative. Something might be wrong with the Acer Laptop in that is takes a long time to log onto Windows 10. I have not used it, since I configured it a couple of years ago. I do have a backup for it. CIO
12/15/17 Friday 9:15 A.M. I ordered in black http://www.josbank.com/knit-scarf-hat-set-clearance?utm_source=linkshare&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=generic&utm_campaign=default&ranMID=38377&ranEAID=isIkAyUyNbM&ranSiteID=isIkAyUyNbM-Ut5o1HBMR37.UozIdZknqg&mid=38377&siteID=isIkAyUyNbM-Ut5o1HBMR37.UozIdZknqg for $7.99 and .51 tax with free shipping for $8.50 total. CIO
https://www.amazon.com/Jules-Verne-Collection-ebook/dp/B0777TKN3L for free
It is 19 degrees Fahrenheit outside right now http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.04904598378624&lon=-73.62304748575207&site=all&smap=1#.WjPXnTdryUl . I will now go outside again. CIO
12/15/17 Friday 8:20 A.M. http://view.reply.reaganfoundation.org/?qs=df3588611157257e9d36e27e631c95105797e91faf1c13796754bdd7223816498d0b7d94fb60e452d77716d33196bb742e94c1f955da1eb8a07d87ada1108c3e996ebcec100e5e14
I will now go outside again. Red sky this morning, sailor take warning. Red Sky at night, sailor's delight. CIO
12/15/17 Friday 7:35 A.M. I also ate a clementine. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. CIO
12/15/17 Friday 6:20 A.M. I woke up at 5:45 A.M.. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
12/14/17 Thursday 6:45 P.M. I ate four ounces of garlic and cheese croutons. I will now rest for a while. CIO
12/14/17 Thursday 6:30 P.M. I ate a salad of five ounces of Romaine lettuce with 4 ounces of diced Dutch Gouda cheese and nine cherry tomatoes and four sliced large mushrooms and two ounces of Chatham Village garlic and cheese croutons and a 3.75 ounce tin of sardines with oil and grated parmesan and Romano cheese and Wish Bone balsamic and vinaigrette dressing and Wish Bone Spicy Caesar dressing and extra virgin olive oil with ground black pepper and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. CIO
12/14/17 Thursday 5:55 P.M. I found the metal ashtray. It was sitting on the ground by the east side door. I put it back on the picnic table. CIO
12/14/17 Thursday 5:30 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I went by the Valley Road Post Office, and I mailed the Christmas cards with letters. I then went downtown to Greenwich Avenue, and I sat out for a brief spell. I then went by the Acme Grocery store. I bought a crate of clementines from Spain for $4.99 and a 42 ounce container of Smart Balance Spread for $7.99 for $12.98 total. I sat outside briefly. Someone took or threw away the metal ashtray form the picnic table. We are now stuck with a tin can. I picked up the mail. The order with tracking of https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?tLabels=61299990247734251580 on the order for https://www.ebay.com/itm/100-COUNT-AA-Alkaline-Batteries-ION-3-LR6-AM3-1-5V-FREE-PRIORITY-SHIPPING/322844132854?epid=14007802903&hash=item4b2b0285f6:g:akUAAOSwTQtZ7kS5 for $22.85 with free shipping arrived. I chatted with a relative. The lights on the front door Christmas wreath do not work even with the batteries. Probably one of the lights is burned out keeping the light string from working. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/14/17 Thursday 3:15 P.M. I went outside a couple of times. I have 33 Christmas cards with Christmas letters ready to mail which I used thirty seven .49 forever stamps on. I will go out shortly, and I will mail them. I will post the Christmas letter on my web site later. CIO
12/14/17 Thursday 12:15 P.M. I chatted with a relative. I went outside again. It is now a sunny day, and it is now 28 degrees Fahrenheit. One of the few local British residents here years ago was David Heron, and he worked for Swiss Air, and seemed know something about my family. He told me I am supposed to keep doing what I do. I am not supposed to know what goes on. I am supposed to stay focused. I am supposed to get a haircut, when I can afford it. Those are the only British instructions I have had in 34 years back in Greenwich, Connecticut. The British are the largest stockholders in America, so I try to network with them, but I suppose what few remain in this country live elsewhere. CIO
12/14/17 Thursday 10:55 A.M. I went outside again. I chatted with a relative. I drank my coffee outside. I chatted with a friend. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I will now go outside again. I will then shower and clean up. Nobody gives me credit for being one of the first people to start blogging on the internet over 20 years ago. I guess I have not kept up with the times, but I am sure the younger generation is doing something more creative. CIO
12/14/17 Thursday 9:30 A.M. I woke up, and I ate six Fig Newtons. I finally woke up at 8:45 A.M.. I went outside, and I cleaned two inches of snow off my Volvo wagon. I also clean the snow off the front benches and the east side picnic benches. I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with Equal sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and preserves, a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk, and vitamins and supplements. CIO
12/14/17 Thursday 12:50 A.M. It is starting to snow outside lightly. Possible 1.5 inch accumulation by 9 A.M. , and it is 23 degrees Fahrenheit outside http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.04904598378624&lon=-73.62304748575207&site=all&smap=1#.WjIQdTdryUl . I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. Bon Soir. CIO
12/14/17 Thursday 12:30 A.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . I will now go outside again. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 11:35 P.M. http://volcano.si.edu/reports_weekly.cfm
http://envsci.rutgers.edu/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO8IfrqIO70&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBTAcACmcgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QSl_t65wnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLo0E66O8A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qj2rwIVW-A
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I will now go outside again to the cold environment. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 10:35 P.M. I ate two White Castle cheeseburgers with the other half of the reheated Knorr butter and herb rice and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I have noticed a few people wearing https://www.canadagoose.com/ clothing around here. I will now go outside again to face the Artic Tundra of Greater South Western Connecticut, and it is not even winter yet. I had an idea over 20 years ago, if New England became part of Canada, Byram and maybe Greenwich could make a lot of money off Duty Free Liquor at the New York border. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 9:55 P.M. I threw out the garbage. I drove a neighbor over to www.cvs.com at 644 West Putnam Avenue. I then returned the neighbor back to our building. I then went downtown to CVS on Greenwich Avenue. I bought another https://www.accu-chek.com/meters/guide-meter on sale for $7.99 down from $32.99 and a 3 ounce Old Spice Pure Sport deodorant for $3.99 less $2 off the Old Spice with a CVS coupon machine coupon and .13 tax for $10.11 total. I then bought four 6.5 ounce Fig Newtons for .99 each for $3.96 total. I used the bathroom at CVS. I chatted with a relative. I then drove further downtown. I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I sat out at various locations. I stopped by Zyn Stationary, and I bought an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, and I lost. I toured the www.apple.com store. I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I bought an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, and I lost. I chatted with a www.starbucks.com regular. I used the bathroom at Starbucks. I then drove back over to CVS on Greenwich Avenue. I bought forty .49 forever stamps for $19.60. I then went by the Acme Grocery store. I bought two Acme 8 ounce grated parmesan cheese for $2.99 each, four 16 ounce Stouffer's frozen dinners for $2.49 each, two turkey and two Salisbury steak, organic bananas for .79 a pound for $1.22, a six pack of White Castle cheese burgers for $3.99 less a dollar off coupon from an old White Castle box and .35 can return for $19.80 total. I then returned home. I sat outside. I put away my groceries. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 4:25 P.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I will now go outside again. I will then pick up the mail. I will then shower and clean up. I will then drive a neighbor to www.cvs.com at 644 West Putnam Avenue. I will then go downtown to the very frigid Greenwich Avenue for whatever it is worth. It is currently 27 degrees Fahrenheit http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.04904598378624&lon=-73.62304748575207&site=all&smap=1#.WjGZyzdryUl . CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 3:15 P.M. I woke up, and I ate a 3.5 ounce bag of almond and chocolate peanut trail mix. I went back to bed until 2:30 P.M.. I went outside. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 9:00 A.M. I chatted with neighbors outside. A dead five diameter tree about 25 feet tall broke and started to fall over, and only another similar tree is keeping it from falling on the far east picnic table where people do sit. I put my two heavy winter hats on the floor of the right living room closet. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. 12 hours on 12 hours off a day seven days a week works out to an 84 hour week. Bon Nuit. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 8:25 A.M. I chatted with neighbors outside. I took the Cuisine Art out of the lower left kitchen cabinet, and I have it one the white wire rack, in case I ever need to use it. The blades for it are on the lower shelf of upper center kitchen cabinet. I used to use it for making ground eye round beef and hummus, but I do not eat those anymore. The www.ge.com oven door opens all of the way, but I never use it, since I have the Farberware convection on top of the Westinghouse refrigerator which cooks better and uses less energy. The only thing now in the lower left kitchen cabinet is the broiling pans which I never use. In the lower right cabinet, I have baking pans and a 8 inch by 12 inch broiling pan, if I need to broil something small. Besides today being the Aga Khan's birthday happens to be Guy Erdman's birthday. Guy Erdman from Princeton, New Jersey was my roommate at www.lfc.edu my freshman year. He later moved in with Jack Dane who was about 6 foot 7 inches tall. I can not remember whom moved in with me, when Guy moved out. I also attended Taft with him, so he knew other people from Princeton, New Jersey. His family makes all of the aluminum shielding for coaxial cable, so you could say they are in the communications business. Anyone born on December 13 during the Viet Nam war, their draft number in the lottery was number 1. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 7:45 A.M. I went outside, and I smoked a cigar cigarette in a neighbor's car. I leant the neighbor one of my Premier cigarette rolling machines. I went outside again. There are some two shelf wire racks out by the recycle bin. I brought one of them up, and I put it at the far left of the kitchen, and I stacked some my spare food items on it, so the kitchen looks a lot neater. One has to remember, I have been interior decorating in my apartment for 29 years, so I am a little too close to it, to be objective. Still, I like it the way it is. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 6:40 A.M.
For Holiday dining, I happened to notice while I was sitting downtown at the top of Greenwich Avenue in one of my usual observation places, that there was a big truck that services this area called https://www.freshdirect.com/ that delivers food into this area, if one does not want to face the hoards of food shoppers in the grocery store at this time of year.
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better have it http://www.fedex.com/ if you can afford it Heal Farm - On Line Meat and Country Food and https://healfarm.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=98_32 , the big stuffed bird seems to be available https://healfarm.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=98_32&product_id=621 for anyone with a lot of friends, but I am not sure United States Customs would allow it. In the economically ravished Greenwich, Connecticut area, they have put the Holiday lights on Greenwich Avenue, so maybe they can afford it this year. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 6:15 A.M. I ate nine Carr's whote wheat crackers with 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch by 3/16th inch slices of Cracker Barrel Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese on them.
http://www.4noggins.com/pure-vermont-maple-syrup.aspx . CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 5:55 A.M. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42333452 . CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 5:35 A.M. I went outside, a daytime person is now awake. The net result of me visiting White Plains, New York in the old days is that a number of White Plains, New York real estate firms started buying up Greenwich real estate, and the www.chase.com bank is all over the place in Greenwich. I went to the http://www.taftschool.org/ in Watertown, Connecticut with Woody Chase whose family were in the State Department in Lebanon, and I was told that Helen Chase, Helen Clay Frick's niece inherited all of her money and property. Thus the Chase family might have a bit of money too. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 5:15 A.M. When I used to go over to White Plains, New York; I met a few people. I met Tony Renato Pigato from Brazil that lived in Valhalla, New York by the Valhalla dam who was a Rotary Exchange student that never went to school, but worked at the Galleria in White Plains, New York. I met Judge Sullivan's son. I chatted with a rich guy from Westport, Connecticut that could afford to play the expensive 50 cent computer games whose father he said was the head of personnel for www.ibm.com , and he looked like Steve Jobs. Somebody gave Richard Van Marter, the Seattle, Washington Chamber of Commerce video tape. I used to chat with a medical doctor from www.yale.edu New Haven medical center. I met a local waiter from Stamford, Connecticut that moved to San Francisco. I gave him my two vintage brown leather suitcases to move. I recall he worked at Tapestries Restaurant here in Greenwich, where he once took me to dinner. I used to chat with a Greenwich School teacher who owned the Scott family plantation in Virginia. I was told there were a lot of French Canadian New York Rangers at the pub. I met Scott Nelson from Minnesota that spoke German and had lived in Germany and the SoHo area of London. He lived in Irvington, New York with his roommate Max above the bakery there which was warm. His family owned a gourmet meat company in Minnesota, and he had similar experience as myself having lived in Chicago, Key West, and Nantucket. When I met him, he was working at the Chart House restaurant in Dobbs Ferry, and he said they frequently did catering at the Rockefeller estate in North Tarrytown. He once visited my apartment, and said it looked very "Rockefeller". I gave him my pedistal lamp with Victorian lamp shade and a complete set of Washington Irving books that I had bought at the Episcopal Church tag sale in Tarrytown, New York. There were a lot of blond women in Irvington, New York that looked like Hilary Clinton, and I thought they might be www.army.mil wives with West Point nearby. He did not drive a car. The last time I saw him, he was with a seven foot tall man from Nicaragua that worked for ConEd. He told me he was going to Dental School at www.columbia.edu . He showed up on the internet with Bill Clinton at a Cancer Fund Raiser in South Hampton. I might have first met him at the pub behind the Natural Museum of History in Manhattan, when I first came off www.nantucket.net in December 1983, and I recall walking him back to a Swiss Hotel just West of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. He was six foot three inches tall, but he moved out of Manhattan, since he was mugged and cut in the back of his neck for his grandfather's diamond ring. Thus he lived in Irvington, New York. Once when I was buying new Michelin tires for my Hyundai at www.sears.com in White Plains, New York, I saw a man that looked like Nelson Rockefeller sitting on the steps of the old brick building by the old Sears. However, a lot of Europeans have the same look. I met a furniture sales person from Buffalo, New York that lived near the pub. I showed George Cary the pub, so he could investigate, since he was a legal New York State investigator. I met a Dutch person that lived by the Old Greenwich elementary school that worked at Citibank. I ran into Rick Tod whom I knew from Key West that lived in Tarrytown, New York. He used to hang out in Key West with Bob Russel, Izi from Saudi Arabia, and Steve Buell of Fennimore Cheese http://www.carrvalleycheese.com/ . I guess it is cold enough outside to start shipping cheese. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 4:20 A.M. I ate half of a Knorr Butter and Herb Rice mixture and refrigerated the other half in a Rubbermaid container. I ate it with two White Castle cheeseburgers and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I will now go outside to survey the local tundra. At least for now we do not have Siberian tigers here, unless somebody let something out of the Bronx zoo. It is 20 degrees Fahrenheit outside at the moment http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.04904598378624&lon=-73.62304748575207&site=all&smap=1#.WjDv9jdryUl , and I will NOT be going for an early morning walk with the young well financed movers and shakers. One should learn not to bother older retired people, or when you are old, I will have some of my younger relatives bother you. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 3:35 A.M. For an even more expensive stay in the rural Democratic stronghold of New Canaan, Connecticut https://www.rogershermaninn.com/ , but there seems to also be a few established Republican Party residents in this area also, if you did not know from hanging out in Irish bars. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 3:30 A.M. If one wants to visit this area and be in a rural environment close to Westchester County airport, the http://www.doralarrowwood.com/ is near the www.pepsi.com corporate headquarters and SUNY Purchase campus and a stone's throw away from Greenwich, Connecticut. Also if one wants to be close to all of the big money in nearby North Tarrytown, New York; the https://www.extendedstayamerica.com/hotels/ny/white-plains/elmsford is near a www.samsclub.com and across the Hudson River from www.usma.edu , but there is a lot more traffic over that way. There used to a 24 hour diner off I-287 at the Tappan Zee bridge in Tarrytown, New York exit near a 24 hour Shell station. At night it is not too busy over there. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 3:05 A.M. $49.99 with free shipping $30 off https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01J94SWWU?tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=60732bdedfdb11e7934d12b6eb2019a40INT .
$29.99 with free shipping $20 off https://www.amazon.com/All-New-Amazon-Fire-7-Tablet/dp/B01GEW27DA?tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=d5380c46dfdb11e797201a5de5c8a3b20INT . I will now go outside again. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 2:50 A.M. I have about four bottles of wine in the apartment, a six pack of Guinness beer warm, four bottles of old St. Pauli's Girl dark beer cold, a 1.75 liter unopened bottle of Ruskova http://www.ruskova.com/ Russian vodka which only cost me $20 at Var Max a few years ago, a fourth of a 1.75 liter bottle of Smirnoff Vodka, a third of a .75 liter bottle of Jack Daniels whisky, a unopened bottle of Moet and Chardon Champaign, and some Peppermint Snaps. I quit drinking alcohol completely back in 1992, when I started spending my spare money on computers and the internet which I started in August 1989. I went outside again. Some of my friends and relatives still drink alcohol, but they never visit me anymore, because they live too far away. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 2:10 A.M. About 20 years ago, they used to sell a 1.75 liter bottle of http://www.mountgayrum.com/ at the Madison liquor store 1-203-531-8737 at 1 North Water Street across from the Buy Rum Smoke Shop and across the street from the Buy Rum Laundromat for $18.95, but I think prices have gone up. The original colonial people liked drinking pewter steins full of hot rum. It says here https://www.varmax.com/spirits/Mount-Gay-Rum-Eclipse-w8267908xd it is now $37.99, so there has been over a hundred percent inflation over the last twenty years, but my disability income has not gone up at all in 34 years. Whenever I get the small COLA increase in my SSI income, they just lower my EBT food stamps by the same amount. Thus the United States government does not know anything about Economics. It says here at $1,499.99 https://www.varmax.com/wines/Chateau-Lafite-Rothschild-Pauillac-2010-w8168328bf , thus the Rothschilds are making all of the money https://www.prisonplanet.com/rothschilds-rockefellers-trillionaires-of-the-world.html . CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 1:50 A.M. I have lived at 71 Vinci Drive in Byram, Connecticut for about 29 years. It was originally built for elderly and disabled people during the Reagan administration, and it was named after Congressman Stewart McKinney whose funeral I attended in Southport, Connecticut with the whole United States congress. We have come a long way in communications since I used to drive across the border into Port Chester, New York to the nearby Cumberland Farms dairy store outdoor pay telephones to make 35 cent telephone calls to my friend in Sands Point, Long Island at W. Averill Harriman's sister's son's estate which they no longer own nearby the www.ibm.com country club which is no longer there. My friend there after living in Melville, Long Island for a long time moved his family to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockessin,_Delaware to be near Henry www.dupont.com an other horse people. His wife is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmarnock where they used to make https://www.johnniewalker.com/ , so thus I do have a real Scottish friend in America, although I do not know much about horses. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 1:30 A.M. When the Bushs were in the www.wh.gov , I used to frequently go over to White Plains, New York at night, because the United States Secret Service has an office nearby over there, where the only other one that covers Greenwich, Connecticut is way up in New Haven, Connecticut which is pretty far away.
Tracking is https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?tLabels=9405509699939526128335 on the order for https://www.ebay.com/itm/100-COUNT-AA-Alkaline-Batteries-ION-3-LR6-AM3-1-5V-FREE-PRIORITY-SHIPPING/322844132854?epid=14007802903&hash=item4b2b0285f6:g:akUAAOSwTQtZ7kS5 for $22.85 with free shipping.
https://www.groupon.com/getaways I will now go outside again into the Siberian Tundra. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 12:45 A.M. I ordered https://www.ebay.com/p/12-X-60-Watt-Equivalent-Slimstyle-A19-LED-Light-Bulb-Soft-White-2700k/2164369371?iid=391415288268&_trkparms=5373%3A0%7C5374%3AFeatured%7C5079%3A6000002342 for $21.98 with free shipping. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 12:25 A.M.
One can always escape.
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https://www.johnsislandclub.org/
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CIO
12/13/17 Wednesday 12:20 A.M. Happy Birthday https://www.facebook.com/AgaKhanIV/ . My Brazilian friend Tony Renato Pigato from Sao Paulo, Brazil had an introduction to the Aga Khan 30 years ago, when he was High Commission of Refugees at the www.un.org . A local taxi cab driver told me the Aga Khan's family have had a house off Round Hill Road near French Road since World War I, when they started the United Nations. In the movie "Centurion", when the Roman Centurion tries to escape his Scottish captors with an African Slave, the Centurion cripples the slave, so the wolves chasing them eat the African slave instead of the Centurion. In the Scottish movie "Monarch of the Glen", they claim wolves are extinct in Scotland, but I figure there might still be a few around in the wild highlands. Also mountains lions tend to like the north country too. CIO
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I will now go outside again, to see if my brother the wolf is around. CIO
12/12/17 Tuesday 11:30 P.M. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
12/12/17 Tuesday 11:05 P.M. I went outside, and I drank my coffee, and I chatted with neighbors. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. On my Grandmother Scott's Gard family which came from Lincolnshire, England, they founded York, Maine in 1640, and ended up in Robinson, Illinois. On my Scott side of the family they came here in 1724 from Scotland, and settled in Western Pennsylvania, got 200 acres in North Carolina for fighting in the American revolution, and then became the wealthy William Scott family in Kentucky that my Grandfather Clarence Scott in Champaign, Illinois was descended from. On my mother's Boven family, they settled in Holland, Michigan in 1842. Her Dutch family were from the both the Belgium border area of the Netherlands and the German border of the Netherlands. Thus we are not just off the boat. I will now shower and clean up. CIO
12/12/17 Tuesday 10:05 P.M. It has gotten colder out http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.04904598378624&lon=-73.62304748575207&site=all&smap=1#.WjCYCzdryUl . CIO
12/12/17 Tuesday 9:45 P.M. Before I went to bed, I chatted with a friend who is a hunter and a conservationist. I told him about the four inch diameter paw print by the entrance to the east baseball field cage. I told him it had four toes in front and a split rear toe. He told me it was a wolf or a coywolf, probably trying to get that young deer buck I saw a week ago. I woke up, and I ate a 6.25 ounce can of pistachio delights and two ounces of croutons. At 3 P.M. UPS delivered a Christmas gift from a relative. I finally woke up at 9 P.M.. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with Equal sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and preserves, a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk, and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
12/12/17 Tuesday 9:50 A.M. Maybe I am having senior moments. I usually keep an extra stock of AA alkaline batteries. Maybe someone that uses an old Sony Walkman needs them or a senior citizen with a pace maker. From what I can tell the most recent ones that disappeared might be dead anyway, so it would not be very useful in a pacemaker. I chatted with an older relative who is trying to figure out how to use a new cell phone. I went outside, and there are six Greenwich Housing Authority maintenance people doing a thorough cleaning. Maybe they are cleaning the place up for the Aga Khan's birthday if he is still around. Also while I was sitting out in the east baseball field cage at its entrance there are four inch diameter paw prints which is either a pretty big dog or some other animal. I told the maintenance people about it. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. Nobody ever pays any attention to night time people except for telemarketers whom wake them up in the daytime, when they are trying to sleep. CIO
12/12/17 Tuesday 9:00 A.M. I went downtown to www.cvs.com on Greenwich Avenue. I bought three 12 packs of diet Fresca for $10 and $1.80 can deposit and two 6.25 ounce pistachio delights for $3.99 each for $19.78 total. I then returned to Chez Vinci. I did not take an exercise walk because it is a rainy morning. I brought up my diet Fresca with my little folding cart. I then put the folding cart back in the rear of the Volvo wagon. I sat out briefly. I then dated the new Fresca with my magic marker. I have 13 twelve packs of diet Fresca, so I am stocked up for the winter. I will now go outside again. CIO
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The U.S.A. dollar is so weak versus the Chinese Juan, there is nothing cheap worth buying on the internet anymore. I will now go downtown to do a few errands. CIO
12/12/17 Tuesday 6:25 A.M. I chatted with neighbors outside.
Point of interest https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/5085/are-there-any-jurisdictions-in-the-world-where-dueling-is-still-legal
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/legal-duel-challenge-canada
https://victorianparis.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/the-last-duel-in-paris/
http://fencing-future.com/cntnt/eng/fehtovanie9/eng_history/nemnogo_o_.html CIO
12/12/17 Tuesday 5:35 A.M. I ate a salad of five ounces of Romaine lettuce with 3 ounces of diced Dutch Gouda cheese and seven cherry tomatoes and three sliced large mushrooms and two ounces of Chatham Village garlic and cheese croutons and a 3.75 ounce tin of sardines with oil and grated parmesan and Romano cheese and Wish Bone balsamic and vinaigrette dressing and Wish Bone Spicy Caesar dressing and extra virgin olive oil with ground black pepper and a 12 ounce glass of diet www.coke.com . I will now go outside again. CIO
12/12/17 Tuesday 4:45 A.M. I put away the clean laundry. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/12/17 Tuesday 4:05 A.M. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE&feature=share
https://geraldrfordfoundation.org/donate/
12/12/17 Tuesday 3:30 A.M. I have 40 minutes to go on two dry cycles. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/12/17 Tuesday 3:00 A.M. One of Fred Von Mierers clients when he took over Billy Baldwin's business in the early 1970s was that he had to decorate http://stbarts.org/ at Christmas time on the north side of the Waldorf Astoria. I even saw the Duke of Windsor entering the Waldorf Towers in January 1973 seven months after he supposedly had died when I was smoking a cigarettes on St. Bart's terrace observing the Waldorf Towers. I was staying there with Hurley Harris Haywood. He could afford it, because his family owned Harris Trust Bank in Chicago. Also a lot of young people went to St. Bart's because they had an indoor swimming pool. When I was around the Casa Marina in Key West, I learned that Henry Flagler built an Episcopal Church next to each of his hotels in Florida, and back then in Key West, it was St. Margaret's next to the Casa Marina. There were 40 skinny old woman that went there, and I was told a retired Archbishop of Canterbury ran the place. Recently, I was told it is not there anymore. St. Margaret is the patron Saint of Scotland, and her bones were stolen by the Spanish and lost at sea in the Caribbean, and I was told that Scotland would always be at war until St. Margaret's bones are returned to Scotland. CIO
12/12/17 Tuesday 2:30 A.M. I showered, and I cleaned up. I have 30 minutes to go on two wash cycles. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/12/17 Tuesday 1:35 A.M. The maintenance person at Christ Church was into witchcraft and casting spells and wore a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talisman around his neck, and the ghost that appeared here wore the same talisman. It looked like the actor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson_filmography , so possibly it was old Viking ghost from pre European discovery of America. I put clean linens on the bed. I will now go outside again. One of my neighbors claims there is somebody living out in the woods by Vinci Drive, maybe it is a ghost. Back when John Bolton and I lived at the Casa Marina Hotel in Key West in the winter of 1978, there was also a ghost walking around that hotel at night. Being on a night schedule most of my life, I have probably seen other creatures of the night. CIO
12/12/17 Tuesday 12:55 A.M. The maintenance person at Christ Church that I met years ago liked sleeping in the grave yard at Christ Church on hot nights. He once came over here for a beer, and he fell asleep on the sofa, but I chatted with him for two hours, and I think the person I was chatting with was the ghost from Christ Church that came over with him here. Possibly the ghost needs AA alkaline batteries. Possibly my battery tester does not work, but it worked on my wireless mouse AA batteries. Possibly I lost track of my battery count which is easy. However, I did not take the batteries out the wreath on my front door, so somebody locally or the ghost is desperate for AA Alkaline batteries. I have been most generous on my limited income in this community. I gave the person from Christ Church over time $800 to feed the cat there one winter, while I was living on Ramen noodles. I have given Christ Church thousands of dollars of used clothing. I have given the Greenwich garbage men thousands of dollars of used computer equipment and other items over the years. There is an old saying, "You Can Not Get Blood from a Stone." I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature. I watered the plants. The maintenance man from Christ Church and my old roommate from Manhattan are both now living in Fort Meyers, Florida; where the military ran the Iraq war out of trailers there. That is all that I know. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 10:35 A.M. I ordered https://www.ebay.com/itm/100-COUNT-AA-Alkaline-Batteries-ION-3-LR6-AM3-1-5V-FREE-PRIORITY-SHIPPING/322844132854?epid=14007802903&hash=item4b2b0285f6:g:akUAAOSwTQtZ7kS5 for $22.85 with free shipping. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 10:20 A.M. I went outside again. I am supposed to have 49 new AA alkaline batteries left, but they are not there. The few that I have left do not work. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 9:40 A.M. I woke up while sleeping, and I ate 8 Fig Newtons. I finally woke up at 9 P.M.. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 9:20 A.M. I chatted with neighbors outside. I watched the news reports on Fox News about the bombing in Manhattan at the Port Authority. The premature detonation of the bomb only insured the bomber, and it was probably ISSIS. I will now go to bed. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 8:20 A.M. I always said, when it is most quiet something happens http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/11/port-authority-explosion-reports-prompt-police-response-in-new-york-city.html . I ate a salad of five ounces of Romaine lettuce with 3 ounces of diced Dutch Gouda cheese and seven cherry tomatoes and five sliced small mushrooms and two ounces of Chatham Village garlic and cheese croutons and a 3.75 ounce tin of sardines with oil and grated parmesan and Romano cheese and Wish Bone balsamic and vinaigrette dressing and Wish Bone Spicy Caesar dressing and extra virgin olive oil with ground black pepper and a 12 ounce glass of diet Sprite Zero. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 7:45 A.M. I chatted with some early morning risers outside. One them recently saw a Carolina or Texas Red Wolf in this area. Another one saw a puma. If one were an expert tracker, one could see their foot prints in the fresh snow. In the old days there was a top secret communications post somewhere in the world, and it turned out to be run by a monkey and a parrot. The monkey could type and the parrot could talk and fly around and observe what was going on. Out on Long Island, the pug dog at the house was the top in breed at the Long Island dog show, so maybe the pug owned and ran the house. Cheetah of Tarzan fame had quite a bit of money. I once read in the New York Times that the little old lady that owned the town house north of the Pierre Hotel left her $60 million to her stray cats, and if one of the cat care givers had one of the cats they lived comfortably. Who knows maybe the Bill Gates fortune is controlled by the cats from that trust. You know they just chose thing to invest in. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 6:55 A.M. Technically from a Federal Legal point of view, since I was a Polaroid employee when they made the cameras and film for the www.cia.gov Black Bird and since I built the garage apartment in Mr. Grumman's neighborhood in Plandome Manor, Long Island where Northrop Grumman is the third largest defense contractor, and since when I was down in Key West, Florida, the Army Corps of Engineers with those Red Castle signs were rebuilding the Florida Keys highway, I might be considered a United States Government Department of Defense Contractor, but when I was in Greenville, South Carolina, I turned down the opportunity to build an www.af.mil base in Saudi Arabia, but it was my idea when the cement in the tankers in the harbors there was going bad in the hot sun to build cement plants there, since they had most of the natural ingredients to make cement. Also out in Oyster Bay, Long Island somebody that Fred Von Mierers knew that I did three days work for had a son that owned Williams Brothers in Houston, Texas that was the largest highway contractor in the Unites States of America, and I really do not like driving that much in all of the traffic anymore. Also Fred had me meet Albert Lillienthal who built all of the dams for the Tennessee Valley Authority and dams elsewhere in the world. Also at www.lfc.edu a young fellow a year behind me from Darien, Connecticut was Rob McGraw whose family owned McGraw Hill that publishes engineering magazines. Also I met Alex Wagner a few times in Manhattan, and he had attended www.hamilton.edu , and I thought he was Robert Wagner's son who had attended Taft, but I think his family actually owned an engineering company in New Jersey. Fred also introduced me to Richard Craine whose family have a large plumbing supply business. A lot of people have common names, and here they seem to think I am the heir to Scott Paper, for whatever else it is worth. In America, they call it "Bum Wad". Of course, if one needs heavier equipment, there is always www.navistar.com . I once threw a Gatsby party in Lake Forest, Illinois for one of their family members. American Hospital Supply also used to have their corporate headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois, if you need medical supplies. So there. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 6:20 A.M. When I knew the Warburg family here on John Street, when I was at Greenwich Country Day, they did not spend the winter here, but went down to a small house in Deerfield Beach, and my father once owned the quarter acre lot next to them, that he bought for fifty thousand dollars. The old timers tend to down size, when they retire. When I camped out at Conyers Farm, we had plenty of media coverage, since John Cameron Swaze's son Wes was one of the class of 1975 at the Greenwich High School swimming out there. Louis Rosenstiel's former wife married Walter Annenberg, and she became Ronald Reagan's Chief of Protocol. The Annebergs left their large estate in the Palm Springs area to be a Western White House, but nobody seems to know it. Fred Von Mierers once had me in their triplex apartment on East End Avenue, and every room looked like a museum room. He was Nixon's ambassador to the Court of Saint James, and in horses I think he owned the Daily Racing Form. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 6:05 A.M. Back in the period from April 1974 to June 1974, when I spent time camping out at Conyers Farm, I met Louis Rosenstiel and his daughter, and they had me visit their small house on North Street. Louis would walk the property with three Russian Wolf Hounds and also sold Wolfschmit Vodka, so he must have had wolf problems. His care take Seigert who was a local celebrity named "Slippery" told me there were bears on the property. The last time I saw Seigert after Peter Brant kicked him off the property, he was at the A&P on Route 7 north of Danbury, and he told me he was taking care of property up there. Even Bill Clinton became famous from the wilds of America is known for carrying a 15 inch Bowie knife on his leg. One my relatives once sent me a picture of a 15 foot tall American Indian totem of a Grizzly bear up in Lake Louise, Canada, so I guess they get quite big up there. When I camped at Conyers Farm and later at Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket that summer and www.yale.edu that fall, I might have gotten Lyme Disease or Rocky Mountain Spotted fever which started my medical problems. I was supposed to have Blue Cross Blue Shield medical insurance back then, but they never covered me. My father when he was at Continental Can used to work across the street in Manhattan from Blue Cross Blue Shield, and I even used to frequent a pub across the street from them and play pool. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 5:40 A.M. https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000005594926/what-history-can-teach-us-about-mass-killings.html?emc=edit_th_20171211&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=46729
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https://www.groupon.com/deals/omaha-steaks-national-192-north-jersey
Twice, when I was sitting outside at https://www.johnsislandclub.org/ , I saw something that looked like a puma and another time something that looked like a jaguar. Even locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut, the security people never network with me, but the police dog which has my scent is always barking at me trying to give me a hint as some of the other smaller wild animals frequently do. I have a feeling a lot of older people when they are sitting outside are frequently bothered by wild animals. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 5:10 A.M. I went outside again. Somebody left a small black jacket on the bench out front.
!!!!!!, If you did not know http://www.scott-mike.com/Canadian%20BEAR%20Sign_files/image001.jpg Canadian Bear Warning Sign. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 4:40 A.M. The way I had my apartment setup before last February 2017, 12 tiny people like Queen Victoria could have all worked on the computers at the same time. However, there are not supposed to be any tiny people around here anymore. If one looks at http://scott-mike.com/computer.htm , in a multiple people emergency with my apartment wireless, besides the primary Dell laptop computer and the two desktop computers setup, I still have two Ipads, three cheap tablets, an old Dell laptop, a fairly new Acer laptop, and two older www.apple.com laptops stored away in the apartment, since they do not take up much room. However, this is not www.starbucks.com where people sit all day surfing the internet and drinking coffee. When I first moved into this apartment at 71 Vinci Drive in Byram, Connecticut 29 years ago, I went to Gloria Vanderbilt's Adopt a Dog tag sale on Lake Avenue, and I bought Burt Parks' old blue wool rug that had been cleaned by Schaffer rug cleaning for $40 half price on the second day. Wool carpets like Vivian West had in her house with her dogs do last. Also Acrilan or Acrylic, or Synthetic carpets are suppose to let off fumes. I have an Acrilan carpet in my bedroom and a oriental rug in my hallway. I also have four 3 foot by 4 foot throw rugs laid out to make it look more colorful. I threw out my $100 Hoover rug cleaner and rug shampoo, because of the clutter problem. I never used it. One has to realize having lived here in this apartment for 29 years, I am the expert. People that come in for 10 or 15 minutes are just trouble makers, and they never let me explain anything. I am not planning to hold a cocktail party where a dozen people can socialize. However, in an emergency a few people could be fairly comfortable and sit and eat and drink coffee and watch television and surf the internet which people seem to like to do. However, I got rid of the color and wireless laser printers, which had never been used, so people can not print out except from the two desktop computers that are setup. I guess rich people with Iphones no longer print out, they just flash their screen for airline travel. I have said many times before that for lawyers and legal documents, laser and copy paper has acid in it, and it will only last less than a hundred years. Legal grade rag paper without acid is more expensive. Ink Jet ink might last longer than laser toner. Also the old impact printers with ink ribbon cartridges might last longer. I still have an old Smith Corona typewriter a relative in Florida gave me, but it probably needs a ribbon. Frequently the criminal element in the world do not like leaving a paper trail. One person recently told me his lawyer told him to never put anything into writing. I am a 100% honest, so I do not mind putting anything in writing, but a lot of ill willed people take what I say and do out of context. At this hour of the morning, when I go outside and smoke, I can blow smoke at any wild animals around. On the Appalachian trails there were a lot of bear warning signs. That is probably why in the real wild America, people do not have guns to shoot their neighbors, but to deal with wild life if you get my drift. For example, if you think a wild animal shows up around here, you are an idiot if you think I am going to waste my time trying to call 911 in Port Chester to be put on hold to the Greenwich police department. I will have to figure out how my karma deals with it. I think the Scottish are like skunks when threatened the can break wind on demand. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 3:45 A.M. When I chatted with George Cary's father Charles Cary in East Aurora, New York in the fall of 1972, when they were entertaining the Queen Mum of England, I told him about Tobago. He was excited to here about it, and he wanted to go down there right away. George's mother also knew Billy Baldwin. When I was at Vivian West's house at Plandome, Long Island; she also told me she like visiting Tobago and knew Billy Baldwin. When I built the garage apartment, I tried to make it extra warm in the winter in case they came north. It had a 20 foot long cast iron radiator that came off the main house German furnace. I built out the garage door opening on the north side, and I put a foot of Owens Corning Fiberglass in it along with a foot in the attic. The floor had Styrofoam underneath it and the rest of the walls were 3.5 inch Owens Corning Fiberglass. I also put storm windows on the old garage windows and an electric radiator in the small potting shed bedroom. There was a lot of other work to make it livable. However, the project was done on a tight budget, and they had me put composite wood on the flooring instead of plywood. Composite wood back then if it gets wet can crumble. I could go through a thousand other things that I did, but it seemed to be warm and comfortable. The best garage apartment that I saw on Long Island was George Cary's apartment at his Uncle Charlie's house in Sands Point, Long Island, but they could afford to be more upscale with their railroad connections. However, Vivian West's apartment was one stop before the end of the Port Washington line, so there were some interesting people there too. I think Vivian's house had asbestos in the main house attic, but one is suppose to not disturb it, and it is fine. I always wander if they ever rebuilt the old Manhasset Railroad trestle which looked like something out of the nineteenth century. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 2:55 A.M. When I lived at Julie Bolton's apartment on West 74th Street on the south side of the Newport Jazz Festival and Sydney Bidney Barrels from November 1980 to February 1982, Julie was not there too much, since she lived with her boy friend Mike Stein who was the doorman at the Carnegie Tower on the East Side. I walked her two dogs a Doberman Pincher and a White Shepard. The town house was owned by an old Dutch family named Van Duzen, which there are now three hundred thousand of in America according to the New York Times. Scott Van Duzen was a large young fellow about 6 foot 3 inches tall. Van Duzen is also General Westmoreland's wife's family name. When Julie had me move out in February 1982, when it was minus 26 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, so her son could move in, I think I left the Wal-Mart sleeping bag there, since it was dirty with the white Shepard sleeping on it all of the time on the day bed in the living room. After I built the garage apartment at her mother's house in Plandome Manor from April 1982 to February 1983, I was paid $8,500 and no social security. Julie was paid $50,000 by a developer to move out of West 74th Street, so she moved into the garage apartment, but then returned to Manhattan, because she did not get along with her mother. I think her daughter with her large Chinese family might have moved into the garage apartment. Last year the other granddaughter sold the house for $1.5 million and moved to Summit, New Jersey where Charles Lindbergh once lived. Mr. Grumman of Grumman aircraft lived nearby in same neighborhood as Vivian West in Plandome Manor, so that is probably why Vivian was able to travel so much. She visited every five star hotel in the world. Vivian's mother's family were part of the Kaiser of Germany's consulate to Manhattan from before World War I. That was in the time when the people of the North Shore of Long Island had a lot of money. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 2:10 A.M. Back in April 1978, when I left Key West, Florida with John Bolton, we hiked the Appalachian trail for four days from Ashville, North Carolina where www.biltmore.com is located to a little small rural town in the hills of North Carolina, when we got off the trail because of snow. We stopped at a general store there, and we bought a new red Queen Size Acrilan blanket for five dollars to stay warmer. The last time I saw it Pete Bolton was using it on his bed on Bar Beach Road in Port Washington, Long Island. I also sold John's brother Bill my North Face Mountain back pack for $40 which I had paid about a $100 for in Atlanta. The Bolton family were the wealthiest family in England in the 19th Century having invented the Steam Engine. My pair of medium blue twin bed wool blankets, I gave to Richard Van Marter, since I do not own twin beds. When I was sleeping in my Volvo in the Santa Barbara mountains in 1980, I bought a Wal-Mart sleeping bag for $20 https://www.walmart.com/search/?cat_id=4125_546956_4128_133173&grid=true&query=Sleeping+Bags#searchProductResult . When I declutered my apartment this past winter, I threw out my two www.army.mil extreme cold weather sleeping bags good to minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit which I had bought from Abilene, Kansas on Ebay for $40 each where Dwight Eisenhower was from. My personal viewpoint is that when the Greenwich Housing Authority and my social worker had me declutter my apartment, they were robbing me. A lot of the items that I threw out, I had starved myself on my food budget to afford, I kept them for emergency purposes. Still, the apartment looks more spacious, and it is setup nicely, but I do not know anyone in the area, and I never entertain. In the old apartment setup, it was setup with lots of computers and laser printers and other items, so that in a Red Cross emergency with lots of casualties, if the nearby nuclear power plants malfunctioned with hundreds of thousands of local deaths, one could make up Red Cross casualty lists. I am no longer setup that way. I will now shower and clean up, after I go outside again. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 1:55 A.M. On my AT&T Iphone 4 Go Phone, a minutes to England costs 59 cents, however it is only two cents a minutes for me to call Jolly Old England with Optimum Voice. However, although the British also speak English, there is nobody in England willing to admit they know me and chat with me. Normally one would chat with the British embassy in one's own country, but all their telephone line does is send one through expensive prompts back to England. I guess although the British are the largest stockholders in America, the British still treat us like a colony that they have forgotten about. When I chat with the Canadian Emergency line, they are totally rude. The Canadians used to be very polite. Thus I guess my webs sites is all that they need to know as far as anything going on this side of the pond. There are used Hudson's Bay Blankets on the internet, but they are very expensive https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_sop=15&_nkw=Hudsons+Bay+Blanket&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1 . When I was at prep school at http://www.taftschool.org/ , we just had thin grey wool blankets. Some of the rich students did have new https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/22955?&qs=3091861_google&Matchtype=b&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpcHq6KiB2AIVxVYNCh250wcpEAAYAiAAEgJ25fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CKiaxvKogdgCFY2ayAodccEJ0w and http://www.thebay.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/en/thebay/multistripe-point-blanket-0012-1019553--24 which are very expensive. I guess the British make a lot of money off wool. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/11/17 Monday 12:45 A.M. I went outside, and I drank my coffee. I washed the breakfast dishes. I watched a program on Fox News about Andrew Jackson. I think they still allow dueling in France, if you want to fight it out with someone. I think I once visited the Hermitage, when I lived down south. I went outside, and I threw out the garbage. I chatted with a neighbor. I made my bed. I will now go outside again. I have learned from experience not to do anything from any so called government people, unless they give me written orders on a verified document. We no longer do business here based on a hand shake. The last company I had a job with was Daniel Construction in 1976 in Greenville, South Carolina now owned by www.fluor.com out of Irvine, Texas where www.exxon.com is also headquartered. My immediate supervisor was Jim Jackson who had been in the United State Marine Corps. He sold me my old 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne four door sedan for $250 that I first explored Florida in. It had come from Texas. Jim actually used to go to the job sites to expedite. Back in the office, he enjoyed cleaning his shot gun in the cubicle behind mine, as I chatted with people around the world. I guess that would be called working under the gun. General Westmoreland was also from Greenville, South Carolina, so they might have had other friends down there. Around here in Greenwich, Connecticut, since my Grandfather Clarence Scott worked on the Illinois Central Railroad for 60 years as a fireman and steam locomotive engineers, and I have met members of the Osborne and Harriman family whom used to own it, I used to pretend to be a railroad detective for whatever it is worth. However, the Illinois Central railroad was bought out by the Canadian National Railroad whose largest stock holder is Bill Gates. However, the Brotherhood of Railroad Workers is the most powerful and best run union in the country, so maybe if you keep messing with me, we might shut down the railroads and see what happens in the country, if you get my drift. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 10:05 P.M. In response to the Fox News story on corn and ethanol, they are way out of line. The average corn farmer in the red states where there are a lot of republicans is losing a hundred dollars a acre in farming corn. Fox News is way out date. Tell 20th Century Fox, we are living in the 21st Century. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 9:40 P.M. I chatted with a relative before going to bed. I woke up, and I ate 8 Fig Newtons and 3 ounces of Dutch Gouda cheese. I woke up again, and I leant a neighbor a package of cigar cigarettes. I finally woke up at 9 P.M.. I went outside, and I put the dry windshield cover in the back of the Volvo wagon. I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with Equal sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and preserves, a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk, and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 12/10/17
12/10/17 Sunday 10:05 A.M. I chatted with a relative. I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then go outside again. I will then go to bed. Au Revoir. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 9:55 A.M. No snow on http://www.themaurypeople.com/live-webcam on Nantucket. Nantucket is always a bit warmer, because it is closer to the Gulf Stream. Even Benjamin Franklin who studied the Gulf Stream had a mother from the Folger family on Nantucket, so they must have known. However, usually around the first of the year, the harbor freezes, and it gets colder. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 9:30 A.M. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 9:15 A.M. Almost half price https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sceptre-50-Class-FHD-1080P-LED-TV-X505BV-F/27678567?action=product_interest&action_type=title&beacon_version=1.0.2&bucket_id=irsbucketdefault&client_guid=5fae729b-3955-43fd-33f9-061a5a4415ea&config_id=106&customer_id_enc&findingMethod=p13n&guid=5fae729b-3955-43fd-33f9-061a5a4415ea&item_id=27678567&parent_anchor_item_id=631796609&parent_item_id=631796609&placement_id=irs-106-t1&reporter=recommendations&source=new_site&strategy=PWVUB&visitor_id=YSMbDIboHkJ86MKbguL7YM 50 inch TV for big buck boys. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 8:35 A.M. I ate two White Castle cheeseburgers with the other half of the reheated Knorr teriyaki rice mix and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I also ate 13 Danish butter cookies. I will now go outside again. I watched the https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremonies/ on http://www.euronews.com/ channel 103 on our local Cablevision chanel. The Europeans look a bit thin except for the King of Norway http://www.royalcourt.no/seksjon.html?tid=28435 . CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 6:45 A.M. I cleaned off the rest of the snow from the Volvo wagon. I took the windshield cover off. My neighbor told me to bring it inside, so I do not get mold in the back of the Volvo wagon which I did. There has been no call for Starbucks Security today. I do not need anything downtown from www.cvs.com , so I will keep the home fires burning. It is 68 degrees Fahrenheit in my apartment, but going outside so much in the winter, I do not notice the cooler temperature. It does not cost that much money to keep it a few degrees warmer, which when it gets colder outside this winter, I might do. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 5:50 A.M. I used to have a white Philips Iphone and USB stand and charger, but I can not find it. Possibly in my haste to declutter the apartment, I threw it out. I looked everywhere else for it. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 5:20 A.M. When I was down in Key West starving in the winter of 1977, there was young guy my age that looked like George Cary. He wore a big star on his belt, and he told me he was "The Deputy of Love". The person had a lot of people around him, so it might have been Tony Blair or Richard Branson, both of whom looked a bit like George Cary back then. At the time George was working at the Tampa Downs race track. The richest person in Key West in the winter of 1978, when I met John Bolton whose father looked like Ernest Hemingway was probably Izi, since he was from Saudi Arabia. He spent a lot of his free time on a prayer rug facing Mecca at Louie's windsurfing patio just south of the http://www.casamarinaresort.com/ . In Key West back then before they put in the sewers and the new sewage plant, they pumped the raw sewage into the ocean, so Key West had the highest incidence of meningitis in the United States. They also sprayed the street at night with chemicals to keep the six inch palmetto bugs away, which tourist do not like to see. Recently people down there have been getting Dingy fever. Also there are coral snakes down there which are the most poisonous reptiles in the U.S.A., and the state of Florida quit making Coral Snake venom for lack of money. One might be able to get malaria down there too. Some people whom live down south or whom have visited down south might have better tropical immunities than new comers from up north. Some of the big fish down there are pretty dangerous too. Of course north of Key West, there are a lot of alligators in the Everglades, so some of them might venture down into the Keys also. Some of those local so called dirt bags have a lot of tropical experience. They just do not feel like dressing up in the hot sweaty weather. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 4:50 A.M. On the trip to Washington D.C., when I first met Dr. Gillespie in Georgetown, he had me move from the Dutch Inn to the Georgetown Inn, because he said the Dutch Inn was a Flop House. I told him much could be said about the Showboat Hotel in Greenwich which is now the https://delamar.com/ . At the Georgetown Inn, they tried to get me to smoke Dunhill Jasmine cigarettes, but I told them that Marlboro Ultra Light 100s were good enough for me. There is a Philip Morris factory on the north side of Richmond, Virginia with a Holiday Inn nearby, if one happens to be driving down south. I was also told that the bakery next to the Georgetown Inn bakes two million croissants a day, so there must be a lot of Francophiles down there. At the George H.W. Bush inaugural festivities, I happen to walk into the Wisconsin reception at the Georgetown Inn with lots of free food, and I chatted with the governor of Wisconsin Tommy Thomson and the football player Bart Starr. We never did find the Connecticut reception, but we attended the Connecticut Ball which had people from other states. The only three blond men in the room were Gerry Ford's sons, so there much have been other people there from Michigan. I chatted with General MacArthur's widow who was surrounded by eight Marine Honor Guards in Dress Pinks. One my dates was Admiral Halsey's daughter in law and another was a columnist for a Philadelphia newspaper. I must have looked like the town drunk, because I drank two Vodka and Tonics from the cash bar, when none of the other ten thousand people seemed to be drinking. The ballroom was so big, that when President Bush and Barbara Bush showed up, they looked like tiny figurines way away on the stage. When Washington D.C. puts on the feed bag, they do it up a big way. Eight of us had a $850 dinner bill that night at a French restaurant that my rich friends paid for. Of course, I read about six months ago, that Queen Elizabeth II was going to hold a state dinner for President Eisenhower, and at the last minute, he cancelled because of local politics, which had the British all upset. They go through a lot of work for a state visit, if you get my drift. I will now go outside again. I had a friend at www.lfc.edu from the Boston area with the last name Sachs, but I am not sure if he had a connection with Goldman Sachs or not. Also another classmate's father was the four star www.af.mil general in charge of NATO. When my family was on vacation in Tobago, we ran into her brother who was camping out at the Pigeon Point Beach that had a lot of black flies, but was warm in the winter. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 4:15 A.M. https://www.facebook.com/usnavyband/videos/10154703614423396/?hc_ref=ARTHDJ3oXeF1hdGOm5rUfrlmIiSIaNuJVvha3fH_RrWjz7RJdzSGWaaCS3Rxff7_IjY
A warm place in Washington D.C. in the daytime next to the Capitol https://www.usbg.gov/ , if one happens to be down there in the winter. Washington D.C. was classified as a tropical zone by the British Foreign Office until after World War II and the advent of air conditioning. Thus England must be a lot colder. Also one should never wear a new pair of shoes to Washington D.C. with all of the walking one has to do in those big buildings around the Mall and walking around the Mall. A relative when she visited France used to call sore feet "Chateau Foot". Also the Rothschilds make Cheateau Le Feet Rothschild wine. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 4:00 A.M. I went outside again. A couple of months after that Ronald Reagan first inaugural trip to Washington D.C., I flew down on an Eastern jet from New York City for the day, and on the way back that day, I sat next to head Ed Meese the Attorney General. He told me I should quit frequenting the Meat Packing district in Manhattan, or I would end up on a meat hook. That seemed sort of strange to me, since it was mostly maintenance people down there. I went back to Washington D.C. again in February 1983, after I finished the garage apartment in Plandome Manor, Long Island. I stayed at the Dutch Hotel now the https://www.thegrahamgeorgetown.com and http://www.georgetowninn.com/ . I met Dr. Gillespie who was Lyndon Johnson's heart surgeon at the 1789 restaurant at Georgetown University. He toured me around the Georgetown Medical Center, and showed me the first cat scan machine in America made by https://www.usa.philips.com/ a Dutch company. I took the Amtrak down there and back on that trip. I went down again for George H.W. Bush's inaugural in 1989 with a neighbor of Helen Clay Frick from Bedford, New York who had been in the www.army.mil and we stayed with a relative of Governor Harriman of New York, but although we attended the inaugural balls, we were staying at the Dutch Inn again, and we had lunch there and did not attend the inaugural itself, but we watched it on television. I met up with Dr. Gillespie again, and he had me at his Georgetown Home. He told me he designed hospitals all over the world, which I tended to believe. He also tried to convince me that Washington D.C. is the most powerful city in the world, but with all of those old buildings it certainly does not look like it. I recall returning again about a year later when I drove down with the same person, and I returned on Amtrak, when we stayed at the Dutch Inn again, and we toured around including the www.wh.gov when President George H.W. Bush was in Argentina http://mikelouisscott.com/mlsdc.jpg . I think that was the last time I was there. I guess the people up north pay so money in taxes, they occasionally want to see us in person down there for better or worse. I also drove through Washington D.C. a number of times going back and forth to Florida in the 1970s and 1980s. I used to stopped at Dulles airport for a pit stop. I will now go outside again. People whom are obsessed with the Presidency are suppose to have "White House Fever", but down there, they call it "Potomac Fever". I also recall once flying out of National Airport on Air Florida to Westchester Country airport on a 727 Jet full of military officers in uniform, which got me to thinking there might be a lot of military around here. I do not recall how I got down there or what the purpose of the trip was. Back in July 1976, I also drove out of Greenville, South Carolina, where I was working for a Daniel construction now a part of www.fluor.com , and I unhitched my U-Haul trailer, and I drove around Washington D.C, and then I returned to Greenwich, Connecticut for the Tall Ships Bicentennial Fourth of July event before returning to www.nantucket.net which is a bit less crowded. In America at large ski resorts, they have large lodges where one can warm up and have a cigarette inside and drink inside, but I learned in Europe at ski resorts, they only have small coffee shops, and one has to sit outside in the cold to have a drink and a cigarette. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 2:55 A.M. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42295162
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171110-how-the-ussr-tested-the-biggest-nuclear-bomb-in-history CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 2:45 A.M. Probably most prestigious event I ever attended at a United States citizen was at Ronald Reagan's first inaugural, I attended the Medal of Honor reception with President Reagan at the Hilton Hotel near the www.wh.gov , and I drank a Drambuie on the rocks. Of course I was not alone down there. I flew down that morning on a $40 Braniff Airlines flight from Kennedy airport, and the only other passenger on the jet was the Saudi Arabian oil minister. I left the following day after staying at the Dutch Hotel now the https://www.thegrahamgeorgetown.com on the www.time.com magazine 727 jet to Westchester County airport, and I took the local train back to New Canaan, Connecticut. While on the local train I chatted with a little blond boy from New Canaan who was from Brazil. Back in those days, the Chief of Police in New Canaan was Roy Scott, and he had a son named Michael Scott who was always in the local New Canaan newspaper for setting off fire crackers in town. How times have changed when the kids grow up. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 2:20 A.M. I went through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . I will now go outside, and leave more foot prints in the snow. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 1:55 A.M. This makes interesting reading https://www.ibm.com/ibm/us/en/ . CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 1:25 A.M. I went to the Army Navy game right after President Kennedy was assassinated http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2017/12/09/army-rallies-past-navy-in-snowy-thriller.html . I used to get around more. I will now go outside again to see if there are any polar bears around. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 1:20 A.M. After I left www.cbsnews.com , in June 1973, I used to know a long gone pub in Greenwich Village where a lot of CBS employees would gather. It was next to a 24 hour television repair shop with lots of spare parts. Once I went there around 1974 during a blizzard, and I saw Margaret Thatcher and Map Tse Tung both there. They were not paying official visits to Manhattan, but like a lot of travelers going elsewhere, they were stranded during a heavy snow storm. It happens all the time in the winter in the greater New York City area with 40 million people living within a hundred miles of it, since New York City is a transportation and communications hub for the world. Out here in the boon docks of Connecticut we get a few stragglers whom have managed to make it through New York City. When one is in Manhattan, and one tells people they are from Greenwich, Connecticut, they think we are living way out in the wilderness. At night after 11 P.M., it is only about a twenty to twenty five minute drive into Manhattan. However, since there is no point though, since nobody communicated with me from there, and all they really want is more money, when they already have plenty of money. That is my two cents for the day. CIO
12/10/17 Sunday 12:05 A.M. I went outside briefly. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. There is an office for rent above www.starbucks.com downtown on Greenwich Avenue. When I lived on the rental farm in Lake Forest, Illinois, when I attended www.lfc.edu , I lived near Libertyville, Illinois where Adlai Stevenson was from. Adlai Stevenson's roommate at www.harvard.edu was the https://www.facebook.com/AgaKhanIV/ whose birthday is December 13, if you want to send him birthday greetings. His family used to own their own state in India, so they used to be quite wealthy. His grandfather was supposed to be the world's richest person. He is also a Swiss citizen. Thus he seems to manage to make ends meet. CIO
12/09/17 Saturday 10:55 P.M. I woke up, and I ate 12 Danish butter cookies. I finally woke up at 10 P.M.. I went outside, and I cleaned five inches of snow off my Volvo wagon. I also cleaned off the three front benches, and the two rear picnic tables. I used to clean off the benches in front of the senior and the arts center and the veterans monument and the Restoration hardware store plaza downtown, but I guess some of the locals can now do that. I picked up the mail. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
12/09/17 Saturday 12:45 P.M. There is about two inches of snow now. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
12/09/17 Saturday 12:25 P.M. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428379964137778/ British Royalty on Facebook
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/27168
I will now go back out into our local Siberian wilderness. CIO
12/09/17 Saturday 11:55 A.M. As a matter of comment, a lot of the women in Greenwich, Connecticut looked like drowned rats in the morning, because they go swimming at the local Y.W.C.A., which like the local Y.M.C.A. has a very nice swimming pool. I do not swim at either, since the chlorine in the pool really bothers my eyes. CIO
12/09/17 Saturday 11:55 A.M. There are lots of four wheel drive vehicles at the indoor Dorothy Hamill ice skating rink http://www.greenwichct.org/government/departments/parks_and_recreation/ice_skating/ in the back yard. One of my brother in laws has a friend whose brother married Dorothy Hamill. The https://www.cosport.com/ are in South Korea this coming winter 2018. When I was at the Albertville, France Winters Olympics in 1992, there were a lot of people there from Greenwich, Connecticut wearing American Express aprons scalping tickets. Nobody was interested in going to the outdoor events, because it is too cold, but all of the indoor events were sold out. Back then with optic fibers there were fifty thousand communications people and also fifty thousand security people, yet in the center of it all, it seemed quite peaceful. I read about a year ago, that in South Korea they charge a visitor $800 a day to use a wireless Iphone, so communications there might be quite expensive. Also 2.5 billion people watch the Winter Olympics on television, so it is a major media event drawing a lot of expensive advertisers. CIO
12/09/17 Saturday 11:20 A.M. As if you did not know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Corporation . CIO
12/09/17 Saturday 11:20 A.M. I ate a salad of five ounces of Romaine lettuce with 4 ounces of diced Dutch Gouda cheese and four campari tomatoes cuts into quarters and five sliced medium mushrooms and two ounces of Chatham Village garlic and cheese croutons and a 3.75 ounce tin of sardines with oil and grated parmesan and Romano cheese and Wish Bone balsamic and vinaigrette dressing and Wish Bone Spicy Caesar dressing and extra virgin olive oil with ground black pepper and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I noticed while at Zyn Stationary that President Donald www.wh.gov Trump is on the cover of www.forbes.com magazine. Steve Forbes also lives in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedminster,_New_Jersey where President Trump has a house. Jackie O'Nassis also used to live nearby in Peapack, New Jersey. My friend George Gordon Cary's grandfather Jay Coogan also used to live in Gladstone, New Jersey, and his old English estate is now the headquarters of the https://www.uset.org/ . Malcolm Forbes lived in Far Hills, New Jersey. Far Hills, New Jersey used to have a snow mobile shop, when I once got a fan belt replaced on my Volvo in a blizzard coming from George's grandfather house to a party in Manhattan. I do not drive on snow anymore, because I worry about the other person. Doris Duke used to have a place in New Jersey. I was once told the Rockefeller's primary homes are in New Jersey. I was told they just maintained North Tarrytown, so that Nelson could run for governor. A lot of families have multiple world wide homes. About 29 years ago, I met a young jogger from Rye, New York whom claimed he had caddied for President Trump at the Westchester Country Club or maybe it was the Winged Food Country Club. However, most wealthy people have a lot of friends and numerous contacts, so that is not unusual. I also noticed that the edition of www.time.com magazine that one gets in the mail is different than what one sells at the local news stands. I chatted with a relative. I went outside again. There is about one inch of snow so far. CIO
12/09/17 Saturday 9:35 A.M. I went downtown to Greenwich Avenue. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I chatted with a www.starbucks.com regular. I used the bathroom at Starbucks. I stopped by the CFCF coffee shop across the street from CVS, and I gave them a briefing on the coffee business. They have their own coffee roaster there. After my walk, I sat out for a while. I then went by Zyn Stationary, and I bought an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, and I lost. I think I should quit playing scratch cards. I have been on a losing streak for about a year. I used the bathroom at Starbucks again. Recently, since I have lost fifty pounds since last February, I have had a problem with my boxer shorts and long underwear sliding down from my waist. I threw out all of my small underwear. I then drove to www.cvs.com . I used the bathroom at CVS. I bought three 12 packs of diet Fresca for $5.69, $4.31, and $5.69 and $1.80 can deposit, and a 17.5 ounce can of deluxe no salt mixed nuts for $8.99 for $26.48 total. I put my purchases in the rear of my Volvo wagon. I then adjusted my clothing at the CVS bathroom. I then bought a https://www.accu-chek.com/meters/guide-meter on sale for $7.99 down from $32.99. I chatted with a person with a relative from Chicago, Illinois about Mercedes. I then sat outside in the little park across the street. I then returned home. I chatted with a neighbor. I used my little folding cart to bring up my Fresca soda. I put the cart back in the rear of my Volvo wagon. I put the new black windshield cover on the windshield of my Volvo wagon. It has begun to snow. I sat outside briefly. I will now go outside again. I somehow lost the receipt for the $7.99 Accu-chek meter from CVS. Talking to people I do not know distracts me. CIO
12/09/17 Saturday 4:10 A.M. I went outside, and I drank my coffee. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I went outside again. While having breakfast, I watched the rebroadcast on Fox Business News of Donald www.wh.gov Trump's speech from Pensacola, Florida. My family lived in Pensacola, Florida from 1954 to 1956. My father Louis Dale Scott was the assistant plant manager for the Chemstrand Nylon Plant there. One coworker was once on television's "What's My Line", and his secret was that he had 5,000 www.navy.mil wives working for him at the Chemstrand Nylon plant. Back then Nylon was profitable, since it was used to make automobile tires. We once flew up on the Chemstrand private DC3 from Pensacola to Akron, Ohio to visit the Firestone family whom had a nice French Chateau type house. Alas that is all history. I will now shower and clean up. I will then go downtown to Greenwich Avenue for a walk. It is not suppose to snow until after 10 A.M. http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.04904598378624&lon=-73.62304748575207&site=all&smap=1#.Wium4TdryUl . CIO
12/09/17 Saturday 2:20 A.M. I woke up, and I ate 12 Danish butter cookies. I finally woke up at 12:30 A.M.. I went outside. I picked up the mail. I got my Connecticut Renter's Rebate check for $538.16. I went downtown, and I deposit it at the www.chase.com bank at Deerfield Place. Now, I can afford to continue to moon walk on Greenwich Avenue. I went downtown, and I sat out briefly. Nobody was around. I returned home, and I sat outside briefly. I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with Equal sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and preserves, a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk, and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
12/08/17 Friday 1:35 P.M. I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
12/08/17 Friday 12:20 P.M. I ate half of a Knorr teriyaki rice mixture with a two White Castle cheeseburgers and a 12 ounce glass of diet www.coke.com . On the Greenwich Library book on the interview with Nancy Carnegie Rockefeller that I bought for 50 cents when it was discarded, it says that the little red house in front the Mews retirement home http://www.themewsingreenwich.org/ used to be the Scott family boarding house run by another Scott family that used to run a railroad boarding house here in town in the old days. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/08/17 Friday 10:50 A.M. I went downtown to Greenwich Avenue. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I stopped by www.cvs.com , and I bought buy one get one free of one pound Danish butter cookies for $5.79 both. I then bought a Royal Crest clear shower curtain liner for $3.99 and .25 tax for $4.24 total. I used the bathroom at CVS. After I finished my walk, I sat out viewing another slow ebb and flow morning of the daytime people moving in harmony with the world. I then went to the Stop and Shop at West Putnam Avenue. The can and bottle return machines are now on the outside at the southeast corner of the building. I bought a 59 ounce Tropicana pineapple mango juice for $2.50, a four 5.4 ounce pack of Dannon low fat Greek blueberry yogurt for $3.50, two tubes of buttermilk biscuits for .75 each, a 64 ounce Ocean Spray cranraspberry juice for $2.50, a 8 ounce package of sliced mushrooms for $1.99, a pint of cherry tomatoes for $2.99, three 5 ounce Chatham Village large cut cheese and garlic croutons for $1.99 each, two 10 ounce Dole Salad greens for $1.99 each, bananas for .49 a pound for .36 and .70 can return for $32.78. I then returned home. I sat outside briefly. I put away my groceries. I will now install the new shower curtain liner. I will then go outside again, and I will throw out the old shower curtain liner. CIO
12/08/17 Friday 7:15 A.M. I threw out the garbage, when I went out. My richer neighbors seem to go to www.mcdonalds.com for breakfast, but that is way beyond my budget. I will now dress up warmly and go downtown to inspect the Holiday decorations again. I also should put in a few supplies with the snow coming tomorrow. Be kind to any unfortunate travelers whom have not made it down south yet. If one gets stuck traveling in the snow tomorrow, one could try resting at the lower level parking lot at www.cvs.com on West Putnam Avenue. They also have three charging stations, if one is driving an electric car. CVS at 644 West Putnam Avenue still needs night time help from 10 P.M. to 7 A.M.. CIO
12/08/17 Friday 6:40 A.M. I ate a salad of five ounces of Romaine lettuce with 3 ounces of diced Dutch Gouda cheese and four campari tomatoes cuts into quarters and four sliced medium mushrooms and two ounces of Chatham Village garlic and cheese croutons and a 3.75 ounce tin of sardines with oil and grated parmesan and Romano cheese and Wish Bone balsamic and vinaigrette dressing and Wish Bone Spicy Caesar dressing and extra virgin olive oil with ground black pepper and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I chatted with an older friend that has Nordic experience. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/08/17 Friday 5:45 A.M. I finished configuring the Iphone 4 for now. It is just my backup cell phone. Earlier, I put a cup of water with a few drops of Schultz liquid plant for on the white poinsettia plant. The last time, I visited the Big Apple was for a Microsoft Conference, where they gave away copies of Windows Vista was about 10 years ago. These are the pictures that I took of midtown Manhattan http://scott-mike.com/mls-030408/ . On the way out from the conference, the trains were not running, and there were a couple of thousand stranded people in Grand Central Station that looked like Prince Andrew in dark suits. I was wearing my red Woolrich jacket, and I walked up to someone that looked like Prince Charles and Gordon Brown, and the British flag was flying at the Waldorf Astoria, so maybe it was them. The first train out was up the Westchester line, and no one was on the second train the New Haven line, so I figured out all of the money was going up the Hudson River, where ever that leads. A big fat black African American New York City police woman threatened me on Vanderbilt Avenue for smoking a cigarette within 50 feet of the Grand Central entrance, when plenty of other Hispanic people were. I thus determined I was not welcome in Manhattan, so I never went back again. I was told by a local physicist that taught at www.columbia.edu for 50 years that people in this area, do not like my look, because I look German, although I am half Dutch, which I guess is the same look. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/08/17 Friday 4:50 A.M. http://view.klm-mail.com/?qs=af057b2d28867eaad6bd08c920c9206cde3fbbe17b278510e76760cc5f4a972f42e7b0eff87b64a44048923a7b8bddf81e62254e21dc2dcfd613f1223ba9a41d17e4f44e9eb50720
I will now go outside to get a breath of fresh air. Not much happening locally in this small corner of the greater south western Connecticut near New Amsterdam. We are still waiting for a few crumbs from New Amsterdam to come our way, if you get my drift. CIO
12/08/17 Friday 4:30 A.M. I went outside again. Three to five inches of snow coming here on Saturday http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.04904598378624&lon=-73.62304748575207&site=all&smap=1#.WipaqjdryUl . CIO
12/08/17 Friday 3:55 A.M. I uploaded some pictures of the recent changes in my apartment http://scott-mike.com/mls-apt-1217/ and http://mikelouisscott.com/mls-apt-1217/ . Well I have done the best that I can afford. CIO
12/08/17 Friday 3:15 A.M. I went outside twice. I backed up the updated and changed files from the primary work Dell computer C: drive to the Seagate 1 TB external hard drive in the Rosewell hard drive holder. I installed a few apps on the Iphone 4. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/08/17 Friday 1:20 A.M. I did a Windows Complete PC backup of the primary work Dell computer from the C: drive to the Toshiba 2TB external hard drive. I drank my coffee outside, and I chatted with neighbors. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I will now do an Aomei backup of the primary work Dell computer from the C: drive to the Toshiba 2 TB external hard drive. I will go outside again. I will then shower and clean up. CIO
12/07/17 Thursday 10:45 P.M. I went back outside again at 2:30 P.M.. I woke up, and I ate three ounces of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese and 9 ounces of lightly salted mixed nuts. I finally woke up at 10 P.M.. I went outside. I picked up the mail. As of January 1, 2018, my www.ssa.gov supplemental security income is going up from $735 to $750 a month. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/07/17 Thursday 12:30 P.M. I will now shut down the primary www.dell.com work computer, and I will eat a 5.4 ounce Dannon low fat Greek raspberry yogurt, and I will go to bed. Bon Soir. CIO
12/07/17 Thursday 12:05 P.M. I put one each of the two new stakes in each of the miniature potted palms, so each one now is tied up with two stakes. I added a bag of potting soil to each one, and I formed it like a cone around each plant. I then added a quart of water to each plant with 10 drops of Schultz Liquid plant food in each quart, and I also watered the other two plants with the same formula. The poinsettia does not need watering yet. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/07/17 Thursday 11:05 A.M. I went downtown to McArdles on Arch Street. They have a lot of festive holiday greenery. I bought two dry 4 quart Espoma organic potting mix for $6 each and a 4 foot 3/8th inch stake for $1.50 and .88 tax for $14.38 total. I then sat out downtown for a while. I walked over to Zyn Stationary, and I bought an Ace's High scratch card for a dollar, and I lost. I sat out for a while longer. I then went by the Greenwich Hardware store https://www.greenwichhardware.com/ , and I bought a three foot by 1/2 inch dowel for $2. I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop https://greenwichunitedway.org/organization/greenwich-hospital-auxiliary-thrift-shop/ , and I toured the place. I bought a Queen Anne chair green and brown plaid pattern Scotch Guard fabric in very good condition for $65. I then carried it out and put it in my Volvo wagon. When I got home, I used my little folding cart to wheel it up to my apartment. I moved the www.harvard.edu chair from the hallway entrance to in front of the northwest corner of the living room in front of the Sony CD player. I gave the five white throw pillows to a neighbor. I put the Queen Anne chair to the left of the left living room closet at the hallway entrance. It is very comfortable, and fits well, and a good location for watching television. I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/07/17 Thursday 7:35 A.M. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/world/middleeast/salvator-mundi-da-vinci-saudi-prince-bader.html?emc=edit_th_20171207&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=46729
I will now go downtown again to get some dirt. CIO
12/07/17 Thursday 7:15 A.M. https://www.mcardles.com/ might have some MiracleGro potting soil https://www.miraclegro.com/en-us/products/soils-amendments/miracle-gro-cactus-palm-citrus-potting-mix?cmp=kid/Gardens/Google_SEM/Brand/G_Gardens_Brand_Do_PottingMix/G_Gardens_Brand_Do_PottingMix_General&s_kwcid=AL!4676!3!193829906106!e!!g!!miracle%20gro%20potting%20mix&ef_id=WicASwAAAK8TNHNG:20171207120912:s for my minature plams. They open at 8 A.M.. The Dutch when they can afford it like flowers and house plants. CIO
12/07/17 Thursday 6:50 A.M. I ate a salad of five ounces of Romaine lettuce with 4 ounces of diced Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese and three campari tomatoes cuts into quarters and four sliced medium mushrooms and two ounces of Chatham Village garlic and cheese croutons and a 3.75 ounce tin of sardines with oil and grated parmesan and Romano cheese and Wish Bone balsamic and vinaigrette dressing and Wish Bone Spicy Caesar dressing and extra virgin olive oil with ground black pepper and a 12 ounce glass of diet www.coke.com . I will now go outside again. CIO
12/07/17 Thursday 6:15 A.M. A local rabbit was moving around, so that probably means there are no predators around. CIO
12/07/17 Thursday 5:50 A.M. I finished entering the telephone numbers on my Iphone 4. While doing that I did a Windows Complete PC backup of the primary Dell work computer from the C: drive to the D: drive. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/07/17 Thursday 4:40 A.M. I saw the red fox crossing east at the north end of the building coming from the Byram River. I did not need multiple vitamins, since I had another bottle of similar vitamins in my vitamin supply, but I did not recognize them since they were in a box not a bottle. I will now start entering the telephone numbers on my Iphone 4. CIO
12/07/17 Thursday 4:15 A.M. I threw out the garbage. While I was out, I installed the latest Windows Updates on the primary www.dell.com work computer. I went by www.cvs.com at 644 West Putnam Avenue. I bought buy one get one free of 120 capsule CVS Multivitamin/Multimineral capsules for $11.49 both. I then went downtown to Greenwich Avenue. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area. I sat out at various locations. There was not much going on. By 1 A.M., the Sundown saloon was closed. After my walk, I went by the Putnam Shell at 481 West Putnam Avenue. I bought a 6.25 ounce STP super concentrated high mileage fuel injector cleaner http://www.stp.com/products/fuel-additives/super-concentrated-fuel-injector-cleaner/ for $7.99 and .51 tax for $8.50 total. I put it in my gasoline tank for a cheap tune up. I bought $9 of self service V-Power premium gasoline for $3.599 a gallon for 2.502 gallons at odometer reading of 116541 miles for 35 miles driven since Tuesday November 28, 2017 for 13.989 miles per gallon in local traffic. I then returned home. I sat outside briefly. I started installing telephone numbers on my Iphone 4. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 11:45 P.M. I went outside, and I drank my coffee. I picked up the mail. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I will now go outside again. I will then shower and clean up and go downtown. CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 10:40 P.M. I chatted with a relative at 5 P.M.. I woke up at 10 P.M.. I went outside. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 1:40 P.M. I think I will take another nap. CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 1:35 P.M. There used to be a little www.apple.com store up in New Canaan, Connecticut 30 years ago, so maybe somebody up there made money off Apple. Of course the resources are more limited in New Canaan, but there is a lot of stuff around it. I once met the nephew of Queen Beatrice of the Netherlands and he lived in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and he was the pilot on www.klm.com 747 that lost all four engines over a volcano in Alaska, but he was able to restart the jet. In the olds days, one could go to an airport and network with the flight personnel to see what was happening elsewhere in the world, since the flight personnel were well traveled. When I was in Key West, Pan Am still existed, because that was where they originally started flying airboats from Key West to Havana. The Harriman family had a major investment in Pan Am. Alas the world has changed a bit since then. The last time I changed jets at Hartsdale airport in Atlanta over ten years ago, I saw a lot of airlines that I had never heard about. CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 12:50 P.M. I ate a 10.75 ounce Banquet Swedish meatballs with a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 12:30 P.M. I went outside twice. I chatted with a relative. The had a northeastern on the coast of Maine last night http://www.kennebunkportbeachwebcam.com/ . CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 11:20 A.M. http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/us/article/Suburban-NY-police-tell-residents-to-avoid-hybrid-12406414.php CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 10:45 A.M. I woke up at 10:30 A.M.. I ate 2.5 ounces of crispy onions and a 3 ounce chunk of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese. I went outside again. It seems to be cold and damp outside. CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 5:45 A.M. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/obituaries/king-michael-romania-dead.html?emc=edit_th_20171206&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=46729
I will now go outside again. I think I will then take another nap. CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 5:10 A.M. When I was younger around here in Greenwich and Nantucket, I used to wear a http://www.hawaii.edu/ T-shirt, and I have visited the big island in Hawaii and stayed at the https://maui.regency.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html on Maui. I even once took a hundred dollar cab ride to do an errand near Pearl Harbor, but I have not been on the base there. I might have driven by the University of Hawaii. Word of advise, one does need to wear a Brooks Brothers herringbone wool suit in Hawaii in August. All they show on television there is Hawaii Five O. CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 4:45 A.M. I ate a salad of five ounces of Romaine lettuce with 3 ounces of diced Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese and three campari tomatoes cuts into quarters and four sliced medium mushrooms and 1.5 ounces of Fresh Gourmet crispy onions and six Lindsay large black pitted olives and a 3.75 ounce tin of sardines with oil and grated parmesan and Romano cheese and Wish Bone balsamic and vinaigrette dressing and Wish Bone Spicy Caesar dressing and extra virgin olive oil with ground black pepper and a 12 ounce glass of diet Sprite Zero. I will now go outside again. The last time I checked recently, I was 217.4 pounds. That is weight not money. CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 3:45 A.M. There is a cold wind coming out of the Northwest. I also was around the http://www.uva.nl/en/home when I stayed next to the https://www.heineken.com/us/agegateway?returnurl=%2fus brewery, and https://www.uibk.ac.at/ when I stayed a small hotel on a AAA trip overseas, and I visited https://www.ice.edu/ , when I visited the Roosevelt home in Hyde Park, New York, and I once spent the night camping outside at Easter Time at the http://w2.vatican.va , and I have a relative that lives near https://new.trinity.edu/ , and I probably walked or drove by https://www.gwu.edu/ when I was in Washington D.C.. Somebody I once met was the head trustee of https://www.vassar.edu/ , but I never visited it. I once stored my belongings near http://www.norwich.edu/ while I summered out on Nantucket. When I left the island to Woods Hole in one day I visited Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, and stored the items in a relative's house near Philadelphia, and then I closed down https://mcsorleysoldalehouse.nyc/ in Greenwich Village, and then left the U-Haul truck in New London, and hitchhiked down to Cayo Hueso. The person I was traveling with was from Blue Eyed, Missouri and seemed to know a bit more about Nantucket than I did jogging and washing dishes and pots and painting. CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 3:05 A.M. I drove by the https://www.upenn.edu/ a number of times while visiting relatives in the Philadelphia area. I once stopped by http://www.psu.edu/ during Halloween night while driving across country. I stayed over night at the Woods Hole ferry dock on the way to www.nantucket.net while visiting the http://www.whoi.edu/ . They have good clam chowder there. While in the Keys where the http://www.fio.usf.edu/index.html is, I stayed one year at the http://www.casamarinaresort.com/ when it was being reconstructed. I think it used to be called the Key West Oceanographic Institute. I spent a winter near http://daytonabeach.erau.edu/ living in an inexpensive motel on Daytona Beach with friends. At https://www.ju.edu/ , I stayed with Hurley Haywood. I visited http://www.northeastern.edu/ while at Lake Forest College. I visited https://www.uchicago.edu/ while living at 31 East Elm Street in Chicago. While living in Boston, I also visited www.mit.edu that I worked next to while at Polaroid. I also drove by http://www.bu.edu/ , http://www.northeastern.edu/ , http://www.simmons.edu/ , https://www.tufts.edu/ , https://www.bc.edu/ . I visited https://www.unh.edu/ and stayed with Jim Eldert. I traveled up to the entrance of http://www.bowdoin.edu/ , but stayed at the Y.M.C.A. in Portland, Maine which has an indoor swimming pool. While in Kennebunkport over the years, I visited the http://www.une.edu/ while staying with family. I visited http://www.virginia.edu/ when we drove up north to move to Connecticut. I visited https://www.wlu.edu/ , when I was college hunting, and I recall staying with my father in an old Inn there. I visited https://www.hamilton.edu/ when I was college hunting with my father, and I recall driving through a blizzard from Boston to and back the same day. I visited http://www.wm.edu/ in the summer of 1965 with Jerry Harrison when we stayed again with Mrs. Barclay the secretary to the head of Colonial Williamsburg https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/ and returned again when I was older, and I stayed on the front porch of the Presbyterian minister there. I used to drive down to Atlanta and tour around http://www.gatech.edu/ and stay in cheap motels. I lived near both http://www.furman.edu/ and https://www.bju.edu , https://www.greenvilleinstitute.com/ and https://www.clemson.edu/ . I used to drive down from Boston and visit friends at www.brown.edu . I drove by http://www.risd.edu/ and possibly visited it on my way to Nantucket. I visited http://www.uwyo.edu/ while driving across country, but I did not stay there. While at the Albertville, France Winter Olympics, I spent a day walking around near the https://www.unige.ch/en/university/presentation/ where the World Wide Web got started. While in New York, I used to walk near http://cooper.edu/ . While on Long Island, I visited http://post.edu/ when I was living and working in Plandome Manor. https://www.purchase.edu/ is nearby me with its busy airport. I drove near https://www.scripps.edu/ while traveling the Coast Highway in California. I also visited http://www.ucla.edu/ , https://uci.edu/ , and https://www.pepperdine.edu/ . My mother's family is from Holland, Michigan where https://hope.edu/ is where I used to vacation. Another relative showed me https://www.oru.edu/ . While touring Montreal once or twice, I recall visiting or being around https://www.mcgill.ca/ where the www.cia.gov conducted the LSD experiments on brain washing. I visited Myles McGough at http://www.utica.edu/ . In driving around Connecticut and the New England area, I visited https://www.usma.edu , http://www.cga.edu/ , http://www.trincoll.edu/ , https://uconn.edu/ , https://www.williams.edu/ , https://www.amherst.edu/ , http://www.middlebury.edu/ , http://www.wesleyan.edu/ , and https://www.fairfield.edu/ . Of course in Florence Italy, I was attending classes at the University of Grenoble extension there. I think I once drove around the https://www.usna.edu/ while driving to Florida. I think I have driven by the www.fit.edu coming and going from Vero Beach, Florida. http://www.fau.edu/ was in Boca Raton, Florida when I camped out there. I also once drove by http://www.flagler.edu/ while touring the coast of Florida. I also was around http://www.broward.edu/ , http://www.rollins.edu/ , http://www.stetson.edu , when I was camping out in Florida. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 1:25 A.M. I went outside again. Scotland is famous for having "The Black Watch". The Netherlands is famous for having "The Night Watch". I am not sure what the English do at night, since the pubs there close at 11 P.M., but they have private clubs and private casinos. At www.stamford.edu , I might have slept in their parking lot on one of my five trips to California between 1978 and 1980. At the University of California at Santa Cruz https://www.ucsc.edu/ , I slept in their parking lot. At the University of California at Santa Barbara https://www.ucsb.edu/ , I slept in the parking lot and up in the mountains at camp ground with mountain lions and cattle near Solvang. Driving across country back then there were a number of Universities and Airports that I stopped by to rest at. I had family to visit at the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana http://illinois.edu/ . The last time at www.lfc.edu , I stayed at a relative's in Chicago. At www.nyu.edu , my last roommate in Manhattan was secretary to the Dean of Business School before she went to work as head of word processing Cyrus Vance after he was secretary of state. www.columbia.edu was also nearby the apartment. Also I toured www.rockefeller.edu a number of times, particularly to use their cafeteria for $2 lunches. You know an apple, a Dannon yogurt, and a container of milk. While driving across country 3.5 times, I ate out of grocery stores usually consisting of Colby cheese, yogurt, and orange juice. At www.duke.edu I was put up by three young security guards. At www.unc.edu , I left to visit Duke. At the University of Toronto https://www.utoronto.ca/ , before I returned to Greenwich, Connecticut in December 1983, I stayed at the Anglican Seminary Library for two weeks. The last night after I had to move out, I stayed outside all night at the Tatu dormitory warming up in the vestibule in zero degree weather. At the University of Grenoble https://www.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/en/home-page-136826.kjsp , I stayed with a friend from Greenwich, Connecticut. At the University of Oslo http://www.uio.no/english/ , I stayed at the Best Western Hotel behind the Palace. The University of Iowa https://uiowa.edu/ has a lot of bicycles, since it is pretty flat out there. I stayed with a friend at Colorado College https://www.coloradocollege.edu/ and we visited the https://www.usafa.org/ . https://www.wkkf.org/ gives the most money to American Universities of any foundation. You know corn flakes. At the University of Vermont https://www.uvm.edu/ , I think I stayed at commune or with friends, but I can not remember that far back. At https://www.utah.edu/ , I cleaned up while returning back through the Rockies in a blizzard on my first trip across country. At http://www.yorku.ca/index.html , I stayed up all night at the Scott Library https://www.library.yorku.ca/web/scott/ . At the http://www.english.paris-sorbonne.fr/ , I stayed on the Left Bank. At www.georgtown.edu , I stayed at the https://www.thegrahamgeorgetown.com and http://www.georgetowninn.com/ . I will now go outside again. CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 12:20 A.M. This time of year once the hurricane season is over, a lot of people start traveling down south to Florida and other warmer points. However, it also gets cold down in Florida. CIO
12/06/17 Wednesday 12:15 A.M. Stamford, Connecticut and Norwalk, Connecticut have homeless shelters. The town of Greenwich gives fifty thousand dollars a year to the Stamford homeless shelter. Westport, Connecticut also has a very nice small homeless shelter near their police station. Westchester County airport also has a homeless shelter, but one has to be referred by a Westchester County social services agency. When I was younger, and I explored www.yale.edu back in September 1975, I tried sleeping on a red leather couch in the basement of the Yale law school. The last time I traveled through www.harvard.edu at night I slept on a stone bench at the Corbusier Center for design. Back in winter of 1968, I visit the Lawrenceville Hockey tournament at www.princeton.edu , and I slept at the Cottage Club. Back in the summer of 1980, when I was driving to Montreal, I spent the night at a fraternity house at www.dartmouth.edu . It must have been a hundreds that summer up north. Once one gets older, it is hard to travel without money, since medically one is not as fit. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 11:45 P.M. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. I will use my new Water Pik for the first time. A Water Pik gets all of the food debris from underneath one's gums that can cause problems. It is still raining outside, so there is probably no dry environment downtown, so I will not be cruising Rodeo Drive East. One could stand underneath the portico of Restoration Hardware store to get out of the rain or underneath the covered entrance of the www.chase.com bank at the top of Greenwich Avenue at Pickwick Plaza. I think the latter also has free wireless. Normally visitors know somebody when they show up here, but we have always had curious visitors from the Big Apple, particularly in the summer or on weekends. In the daytime, the Greenwich Library is a popular stopping off point with its free internet. We do not have any all night grocery stores anymore, and the local diner is only opened all night on weekends. There are three mini mart gasoline stations on West Putnam Avenue in my neighbor as well as a all night www.cvs.com whose pharmacy closes at midnight. The Walgreen's in Old Greenwich, I think has a all night Pharmacy. The local J House in Cos Cob is popular with high tech people. I think the Greenwich taxi cabs quit running from 1 A.M. to 5 A.M.. The Greenwich Hospital is opened 24 hours, if one has a medical emergency. There are also about seven five star hotels in nearby White Plains, New York. The two rest areas on I-95 are opened 24 hours. I was told that homeless people and the traveling public are welcome to park over night in Wal-Mart store parking lots, and that probably would apply to Sam's Clubs too. So much for American Hospitality. In the old days back in the winter of 1972, when I was in southern Europe with a U-Rail pass, instead paying for a hotel room, I would take an overnight train to another city or town. The McKinney Transportation is opened all night in Stamford, Connecticut; and they used to have 24 hour security there. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 11:10 P.M. I woke up, and I ate a Nature's Valley trail mix bar. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 8:25 P.M. I chatted with a friend. I went outside. I will now take a nap. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 7:10 P.M. I chatted with a friend. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 6:35 P.M. I drank my coffee outside, and I chatted with neighbors. I picked up the mail earlier. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I chatted with a relative. I made up a fresh batch of punch. I went outside, and I threw out the garbage. It is starting to rain, so I probably will not be going downtown. Having been back in Greenwich, Connecticut since December 1983 or about 34 years, when I finished my summer working vacation out on www.nantucket.net , I have worked the grape vine around www.ibm.com . In covering the waterfront including Steamboat Road, where I once lived for 4.5 year, I learned a few things. First of all, there are other parts of the world that also have waterfront. In my old class at the http://www.taftschool.org/ , I had a friend from Katonah, New York who also lived in Key West, when I was there, and he was friends of the Jordanian Royal family. I was once told that one of those Mexican fisherman on the pier at Steamboat Road late at night in the warmer weather was actually the "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_II_of_Jordan" who likes fishing. With the www.un.org nearby in Manhattan, one never knows what diplomats and heads of state might occasionally show up in this area. From my viewpoint, they like this area, because it is more peaceful. I went outside again. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 3:20 P.M. I woke up at 8 A.M., and I ate four Fig Newtons, 3.5 ounces of croutons, and 2.5 ounces of Jarlsberg Norwegian cheese. I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors. I went back to sleep. I woke up at 2:30 P.M.. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with Equal sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and preserves, a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk, and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. The former maintenance worker that I once met at Christ Church, once told me that my apartment looks like one of the Vanderbilt Private Railroad cars in Shelburne, Vermont https://shelburnemuseum.org/collection/locomotive-220-grand-isle-private-rail-car/ . I was once told that my mother's mother's mother was from the Vanvilabelt family in the Netherlands, so maybe I am distantly related to the American family with slightly different name. Tulips are not in season. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 6:10 A.M. I have not seen my cousins down on the farm in Illinois in over 60 years, so they are probably pushing up tulips, but they might have younger relatives around who more high tech. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. Bon Soir. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 5:45 A.M. Cheap LED bulbs https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1JA3NR3717&cm_re=BestMassage_60_Watt_Equivalent_SlimStyle_A19_LED_Light_Bulb_Soft_White_2700K_-_12_Pack_-_LE-1260-_-1X2-002E-00001-_-Product . I will now go outside again. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 5:20 A.M. It says here https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=hHEmWpKNBMOl_QaqiInICw&q=How+many+square+miles+is+Illinois+&oq=How+many+square+miles+is+Illinois+&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1.1090.10266.0.18328.34.12.0.22.22.0.184.1170.9j3.12.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.34.1491...0j0i131k1.0.7pUjjY2i3Ks , the state of Illinois is 57,915 square miles, and England is https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=hHEmWpKNBMOl_QaqiInICw&q=How+many+square+miles+is+England&oq=How+many+square+miles+is+England&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l2.3273.13164.0.13516.32.11.0.21.21.0.146.1066.8j3.11.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.32.1393...0i131k1.0.BAyJ0n1WylA is 50,301 square miles, but Illinois is not as densely populated, and they can have major tornado problems. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 5:15 A.M. I was told by an old time railroad person that the best way to keep the wild animals away from the horses at night in the stable is to leave a radio running in the stable, but make sure it is not a fire hazzard. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 4:55 A.M. I ate a 10.75 ounce Banquet Swedish meatballs with a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I will now go outside again to bay at the moon. My cousins down on the farm in Illinois used to like playing with baby wolf cubs, if you get my drift. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 4:20 A.M. I went outside again. I moved the oak Lazy Susan from the living window ledge to the center of the oak dining table with the candle sticks on it along with white poinsettia plant and a few other items. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 3:40 A.M. I moved the little Grundig short wave radio from on top of the cable box to the speaker behind it, and I tuned it FM 105.9 classical music. I move the two blue vases from the living window ledge to the back side of the oak dining table. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 3:00 A.M. I move the Danbury Mint Buckingham Palace model from the bedroom desk to right side of the oak dining table. I have the little radio on top of the Cablevision box in the living room. I also put water in three ice cube trays on the inside freezer door. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 2:55 A.M. I put the three brass candle sticks on the oak dining table with white unused candles in them. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 2:55 A.M. I moved the two four foot potted palms from the bedroom desk to the far side of the oak dining table. Queen Victoria liked those potted palms so much, she had two large ones on either side of her casket, when she was lying in state. The seeds for them come from a small island off New Zealand, and they have gone all over the world. I also put one of the folding oak tables behind the Harvard chair and another one in front of the Ethan Allen recliner, to have available for people sitting at those locations for meals or laptops, if they need them. I need to get some more potting soil for the four foot palm trees. I originally bought them for about a dollar apiece when they were about seven inches tall from the A&P when I lived at 700 Steamboat Road in a small studio apartment, so they have done much better here. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 2:20 A.M. http://links.sicirculation.mkt6348.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MzIwNDUxNTMS1&r=NzQwNzA3MDI0MjcS1&j=MTE4MDUwODQxMgS2&mt=1&rt=0
I received email from my Social worker and the Greenwich Housing Authority that Section 8 should cover my rental increase.
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I will now go outside again. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 1:55 A.M. I went outside again. I drank a 8.5 ounce glass of cold www.perrier.com . I still have some year 2000 Perrier. However, Perrier glass bottles tend freeze and break in the refrigerator, so I do not put the glass ones in the refrigerator anymore. They now come in cans and plastic bottles. The Duke of Windsor "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Windsor" made Perrier famous by taking it with him everywhere on his world travels to drink with Bells Scotch Whisky when one can not buy in the U.S.A.. In the old days, frequently there was bad water in other parts of the world. When I was in Europe for six months in 1972, one did not drink the local water, and bottled water was expensive at about $5 a bottle, so the local wine was only about a dollar or two dollars a liter, so everyone drank the local wine. Perrier does not get old, since it is over a billion years old. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 1:20 A.M. From October 1973 to February 1975, when I occasionally used Frederick Von Mierers apartment at 420 East 49th Street who was supposed to be taking over Billy Baldwin's "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Baldwin_(decorator)" Interior decorating business, I learned a bit about maintaining a small pied a terre. Particularly at Christmas time, one has to be ready for anyone showing up for the Christmas Tree lighting at Rockefeller Center https://www.rockefellercenter.com/whats-happening/2017/11/29/2017-rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-lighting/ or the http://www.internationaldebutanteball.com/ , but since I have not visited Manhattan in ten years, I do not know how people put on the feed bag for visitors anymore. CIO
12/05/17 Tuesday 12:40 A.M. I moved the Rowenta four slice toaster to on top of the microwave oven which is beneath the stove fan, so any toaster smoke or heat can go up the stove fan. I put the CuisineArt 12 cup coffee machine on top of the bread box at the left kitchen entrance, so it is available for heavy coffee drinkers. Thus Chez Mike's Coffee and Internet Bistro is now opened. Having been a multiple Presidential neighbor, I try to be prepared for emergencies or hospitality based on my income. I will now go outside again. Well, also Connecticut happens to be a submarine state, and compared to a submarine, my apartment would be considered spacious. CIO
12/04/17 Monday 11:55 P.M. I went outside a couple of times. I rehung the picture of the Paris town hall over the bedroom closet. I moved the All American Golf magazine with the autographs on top of the left hallway bookcase. I moved the www.harvard.edu chair to the left of the left living room closet. I put the two oak leaves in the oak dining table and rearranged it, so three people can dine at it and a fourth if the bric-a-brac is removed from the left side of it. Thus Chez Mike's is opened for business. Of course four people could also sit at the oak dining table and use laptops or tablets with the apartment wireless. However, since I do not know anybody in Greenwich, Connecticut or the area, I am just prepared for any out of town relatives or friends or guests. However, with the oak dining table spread out, there is less room to sleep on the living room floor, if people were planning to camp out. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/04/17 Monday 10:10 P.M. I ate the other half of the Knorr butter and herb rice with two White Castle cheeseburgers with a 12 ounce glass of diet Sprite Zero. I will now go outside again and throw out the garbage. CIO
12/04/17 Monday 9:25 P.M. I went out, and I went by the www.chase.com bank at Deerfield Place. I then went by the Wells Fargo Bank, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority. I then went downtown to Greenwich Avenue. I chatted with a friend. I chatted with a www.starbucks.com regular. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I toured the www.apple.com store. I bought a dollar Ace's High scratch card at Zyn Stationary, and I lost. I used the bathroom at Starbucks. I toured www.cvs.com . I chatted with a relative. After I finished my walk, I used the bathroom at Starbucks. I then went by the Stop and Shop on West Putnam Avenue, and I bought a six inch yellow poinsettia plant for $5, a 16 ounce box of campari tomatoes for $2.50, a 8 ounce box of whole mushrooms for $1.67, two Fresh Gourmet 3.5 ounce Crispy onions for $1.50 each, a 10 ounce bag of hearts of Romaine lettuce for $2, and.32 tax for $14.49 total. I then returned home. I sat outside briefly. I put the yellow poinsettia plant on a white dinner plate on the right front of the oak dining table. I added a cup of water to it. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/04/17 Monday 4:20 P.M. I used my complicated Hoover vacuum to vacuum the entire apartment. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/04/17 Monday 3:05 P.M. http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Opossum-breaks-into-liquor-store-and-gets-drunk-12400561.php . CIO
12/04/17 Monday 3:00 P.M. I threw out the old Water Pik. I chatted with neighbors outside. I am just about to eat half of a Knorr butter and herb rice mixture with two White Castle cheeseburgers and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. CIO
12/04/17 Monday 1:50 P.M. I woke up at 1 P.M.. The order with tracking of https://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/processInputRequest?HTMLVersion=5.0&TypeOfInquiryNumber=T&loc=en_US&InquiryNumber1=1ZV7855E0342560883&AgreeToTermsAndConditions=yes&track.x=37&track.y=6 on the order for $34.99 for https://www.bestbuy.com/site/waterpik-ultra-water-flosser-white/9984673.p?skuId=9984673&ref=212&loc=1&ksid=938e6370-5057-435e-8863-8807424d974c&ksprof_id=13&ksaffcode=pg221624&ksdevice=c&lsft=ref:212,loc:2 in black and $2.22 tax for $37.21 with free shipping arrived. I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors. I will now make my bed. I will then unpack the Water Pik. CIO
12/04/17 Monday 6:20 A.M. I will now take a nap. CIO
12/04/17 Monday 6:00 A.M. There is still the big huge full moon out there. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
12/04/17 Monday 5:40 A.M. I ate a salad of five ounces of Romaine lettuce with 4 ounces of diced Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese and three campari tomatoes cuts into quarters and five sliced medium mushrooms and two ounces of Chatham Village garlic and cheese croutons and a 3.75 ounce tin of sardines with oil and grated parmesan and Romano cheese and Wish Bone balsamic and vinaigrette dressing and extra virgin olive oil with ground black pepper and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/04/17 Monday 4:40 A.M. http://view.reply.reaganfoundation.org/?qs=3fc19cd78d2c1e5525624bffbf2e04d0b7355a9fecd8cd68225766af2ed25d501a079eead1b1d6034a685f084866fa5291a728bd4027fe9dedd5d377df94f09918e8d8634422c56a
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12/04/17 Monday 4:25 A.M. I went outside. I could hear a lot of early morning traffic on nearby I-95. CIO
12/04/17 Monday 3:40 A.M. I cleaned the bathroom sink and counter with Windex surface cleaner. I cleaned the toilet with Clorox blue toilet cleaner and Windex surface cleaner and Lysol spray disinfectant. I cleaned the bathtub with Comet cleaner and the shower walls with Windex surface cleaner. I cleaned the kitchen sink and counters with Windex surface cleaner. I emptied out the crumbs from the toaster. I organized the accumulated paper work in the apartment into a pile on the right side of the oak dining table. I straightened up a number of items on the oak dining table. I dusted the entire apartment with a damp wash cloth that I rinsed out frequently. I will not vacuum at this hour of the morning, but maybe after 7 A.M.. I straightened up the throw rugs in the apartment. I went outside several times, and I chatted with neighbors. I drank a 8.5 ounce cold www.perrier.com . I will now shower and clean up. CIO
12/03/17 Sunday 10:50 P.M. I went outside, and I drank my coffee, and I chatted with a neighbor. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I will now do a bit of house cleaning. CIO
12/03/17 Sunday 10:25 P.M. I ate four Fig Newtons. I woke up, and I chatted with a friend and a relative. I finally woke up at 8:30 P.M.. I went outside. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week of 12/03/17
12/03/17 Sunday 10:25 A.M. I chatted outside with neighbors. My www.eversource.com electricity bill for November 2017 was $160.09 for 835 kWh for 26.94 kWh per day for 31 days with an average temperature of 43.5 degree Fahrenheit. For November 2016, it was $130.35 for 738 kWh for 21.71 kWh per day for 34 days with an average temperature of 46.7 degrees Fahrenheit. I will now send out my weekly notes. I will then go outside. I will then go to bed, and let the other 3/13ths of the World's Population in the Western Hemisphere take care of things or whatever they do here in the daytime. CIO
12/03/17 Sunday 9:35 A.M. I learned something new watching episode 2 of Top Ten Architecture on Netflix the other night. It mentioned that two thousand years ago when Rome controlled Europe they built 45,000 miles of paved roads, so they knew how to keep busy. I went out downtown to Greenwich Avenue. I tested my Iphone 4, and it works fine, but it does not pick up the local free wireless downtown, but the AT&T wireless for calling works just fine. However, my sim card imported my email contacts, but not my telephone numbers, so some time in the future I have to manually enter them. There is a nice ice sculpture in front of the Senior and the Arts Center. Today is another Christmas stroll day. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I bought an Ace's High scratch card at Zyn Stationary for a dollar, and I lost. I used the bathroom at www.cvs.com . I bought a 12 single roll bundle of Scott toilet paper septic safe for $6.99 and .44 tax for $7.43 total. I then bought two six packs of frozen White Castle cheeseburgers for $8 all. After I sat out for a while at the top of Greenwich Avenue, I returned to CVS, and I bought for half price a Craig DVD player for $14.99 .95 tax for $15.94 total. I do not have a DVD player on my primary television in the living room, but I have better ones on all of the other televisions, so I will use the new one on one of the other TVs, and put one of the better DVD players on the primary television. It will be another apartment Christmas gift, which I will do at Christmas time. After I finished my walk, I sat out for a while. I then went to the Stop and Shop, and I bought buy one get two free of six packs of Thomas' English muffins for $4.39 all and a 8 pack of large Stop and Shop eggs expire January 5, 2018 for $1.49 for $5.88 total. I then returned home, and I sat outside briefly. I put away my purchases. One has to remember that only 3/13ths of the world's population live in the Western Hemisphere, so when we are supposed to be asleep at night 10/13ths of the World's population is awake and busy during their day time. Thus when I am on a night schedule in the Western Hemisphere, I have a lot of help elsewhere. I will now go outside again, and I will throw out the garbage including the 8 large eggs that expired October 29, 2017. CIO
12/03/17 Sunday 5:25 A.M. I will now go outside to make sure no Indians attack. Tonight coming up is supposed to be the https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/887170/supermoon-2017-date-when-is-super-moon-december-3-full-moon . I will now go downtown to watch www.starbucks.com open at 6 A.M.. It is the nature of Starbucks Security we keep odd hours. It stinks of garlic in here, but it keeps the vampires away. CIO
12/03/17 Sunday 5:00 A.M. Don't forget https://slooh.com/ . CIO
12/03/17 Sunday 4:55 A.M. I chatted with a neighbor outside. I am making up a batch of Knorr Creamy Garlic pasta shells with grated parmesan and Romano cheese, and two White Castle Cheeseburger which I will eat with a 12 ounce glass of diet Sprite. CIO
12/03/17 Sunday 4:20 A.M. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/business/american-airlines-smart-luggage-battery.html?emc=edit_th_20171202&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=46729 I will now go outside again. CIO
12/03/17 Sunday 3:10 A.M. https://gunnsdeals.net/victorinox-swiss-army-pocket-knife/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GunnsDeals+%28Gunns+Deals%29 . The last time I was in Switzerland was during the Albertville, France Winter Olympics in February 1992. I was only in Geneva, Switzerland for about a half of a day. There were a whole lot of U.S.A. banks around Lake Geneva, and also a https://www.lacoste.com/us/ store. We ate lunch at www.mcdonalds.com there which was about $20 for two regular cheeseburgers, one regular French Fries, and a small diet www.coke.com , so it is a lot more expensive in Switzerland. We went to a sports shop there where Henry Kissinger buys his guns, and I bought a small yellow Swiss Army knife for about $7. They have a big chess board in the park, where people move large chess pieces, and we went to a disco, but nobody was there, because it was too early. There is an eight lane highway from France to Switzerland, so a lot of people must travel there. Back then on the bus signs, they advertised a 6 ounce Delmonico steak at the John Bull Steak House for about $100, so I do not think the Swiss eat too many steaks. However, they also have Mountain Lions there, and they probably still use Alpine Horns for communications. The first time I was in Switzerland was back in February 1972, when I had a U-Rail pass, and I took the train from Florence, Italy to Pisa and changed for another train to Grenoble, France which went through Switzerland, and they checked my passport, but I did not get off the train until I changed trains in Chamonix, France in the early morning hours, and walked around, until I caught a commuter train to Granoble, where a Greenwich friend was attending school during the student riots. CIO
12/03/17 Sunday 2:45 A.M. My AT&T Go Phone Iphone 4 number is 1-203-252-0709. However, when I carry it with me as a backup phone, when I go downtown, I never leave it turned on, so the battery will not run down, so I never answer it. However, one can leave voice mail on it, but I never check that either. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
12/03/17 Sunday 2:25 A.M. I went outside again. I did some Mickey Magic. I took my AT&T sim card that I had cut down to micro Sim for the Nokia Windows 10 Phone, and I used the regular size sim card adapter, and I put it in my Apple Iphone 4, so my Apple Iphone 4 now has my telephone directory and the $492.16 on my AT&T Prepaid Go Phone account good until January 17, 2018, by which time I have to add some more money to it. Thus I have switched my backup phone from Microsoft Nokia which Microsoft got rid of to an older Apple Iphone 4 which works perfectly fine, but only has a 4 inch screen which is hard to read, but it works just fine. However, the AT&T Go Phone account is only good for 10 cents a minute telephone time and not good for AT&T wireless, but it will work wireless if wireless is nearby. I will now go outside again to moon watch. So I now have an Iphone at no cost. CIO
12/03/17 Sunday 1:05 A.M. This item https://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Galaxy-Grand-Prime-SM-G530T-8GB-Gray-T-Mobile-Smartphone/122021755014?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20150313114020%26meid%3D021494ac663e4da5a530af46c5c8993c%26pid%3D100338%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D30%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D142600434251&_trksid=p2141725.c100338.m3726 is supposed to work with the AT&T prepaid micro sim card. CIO
12/03/17 Sunday 12:40 A.M. I went outside a couple of more time, and one time I chatted with a neighbor. I told the neighbor a fast way to make a little money with the baby boom generation retiring would be to start a medical supply warehouse. I have told a lot of people that over the years. CIO
12/02/17 Saturday 11:20 P.M. http://www.history.com/topics/medici-family CIO
12/02/17 Saturday 11:15 P.M. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. I saw the red fox cross over again at the north end of the building. I got a letter from the Greenwich Housing Authority that the base rents on a one bedroom apartment are being raised from $455 a month to $755 a month. However, the actual rent is based one one's actual income, so some people pay more, and other people get Section 8 assistance and pay less, which is my case. Of course we also have to pay for the expensive electricity which includes heat and electricity and hot water. I cleaned up my magazine rack, and I threw out the old magazines. The town of Greenwich, Connecticut pays $2 billion in Federal taxes and $1 billion in Connecticut taxes, but we do not get much back except for traffic. I will now make my bed. I will then shower and clean up. I could go downtown at midnight during a full moon, but at that hour there is no place to go to the bathroom which for older people my age at 67 happens to happen more frequently. CIO
12/02/17 Saturday 10:15 P.M. There was a Coopers Hawk in the parking lot here this morning. Some neighbors photographed it. It apparently was quite large. I ate a salad of five ounces of Romaine lettuce with 3 ounces of diced Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese and four campari tomatoes cuts into quarters and three sliced medium mushrooms and two ounces of Chatham Village garlic and cheese croutons and a 3.75 ounce tin of sardines with oil and grated parmesan and Romano cheese and Wish Bone balsamic and vinaigrette dressing and extra virgin olive oil with ground black pepper and a 12 ounce glass of diet Fresca. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/02/17 Saturday 9:40 P.M. I went outside a few times. I chatted with two relatives. On the third episode of Netflix "Top Ten Architecture", about the Uffizi Gallery http://www.uffizi.org/ in Florence, Italy, it said the Medici family ran out of money in 1729, and some wealthy person back then bought all of their assets. However, after that one of the Medici women did a merry a King of France, so possibly that branch of the family are making ends meet. CIO
12/02/17 Saturday 8:10 P.M. I woke up at 7:15 P.M.. I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors. I picked up the mail. I will now go outside again. CIO
12/02/17 Saturday 2:20 P.M. See the Nantucket Christmas stroll http://www.themaurypeople.com/live-webcam . CIO
12/02/17 Saturday 2:15 P.M. I went outside, and I drank my coffee, and I chatted with neighbors. I washed the breakfast dishes. I will now go back to bed to rest for a while. CIO
12/02/17 Saturday 12:20 P.M. I woke up at 10:30 A.M.. I drove a neighbor over to Neighbor to Neighbor at Christ Church. We stopped by the Shell Station on West Putnam Avenue on the way back. I sat outside for a while. I will now eat breakfast of oatmeal with Equal sweetener and milk and sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance spread and preserves, a 12 ounce glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, a cup of coffee with Equal sweetener and milk, and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
12/02/17 Saturday 2:15 A.M. On Netflix, I watched episode 3 of "The Top Ten Architecture". I went outside. There is almost a full moon. I will now shut down the primary work computer, and I will go to bed. CIO
12/02/17 Saturday 1:00 A.M. I went outside again. I ate ten buttermilk biscuits with Smart Balance spread and a glass of cold filtered water. CIO
12/02/17 Saturday 12:20 A.M. http://view.reply.reaganfoundation.org/?qs=9dfea3142a7e7569b93ccfa5621bac9abca63977888e390efd3d7e16ae0eb7a7347ac16e2df3b67b5f7f614de5e510cc49987d280204906735bbe5ce54763f39d52f9c8f7cd40043
I will now go outside again. Venus is still out there. CIO
12/01/17 Friday 11:55 P.M. I went outside again. If one likes star gazing at night, one should visit http://www.lanzarote.com/ in the Canary Islands. It is way out there in the middle of no where. This is the list of vitamins and supplements that I have stored up http://scott-mike.com/msvit.htm . CIO
12/01/17 Friday 10:55 P.M. I went outside twice. I will now go through http://scott-mike.com/bf.htm . CIO
12/01/17 Friday 10:00 P.M. I ate a salad of five ounces of butter lettuce with 3 ounces of diced Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese and three campari tomatoes cuts into quarters and three sliced medium mushrooms and two ounces of Chatham Village garlic and cheese croutons and a 3.75 ounce tin of sardines with oil and grated parmesan and Romano cheese and Wish Bone balsamic and vinaigrette dressing and extra virgin olive oil with ground black pepper and a 12 ounce glass of diet Sprite Zero. I will now go outside again. https://www.forbes.com/sites/betsyschiffman/2015/11/10/full-list-most-expensive-zip-codes-in-2015/#b046eaf36939 , 06831 Greenwich, Connecticut is number 50. 06830 is number 88. CIO
12/01/17 Friday 9:25 P.M. I rested until 8:30 P.M.. I chatted with a relative. I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor. Earlier today, I threw out the three remaining Thanksgiving dinners from Temple Shalom in the Community Room refrigerator, since they were nine days old. CIO
12/01/17 Friday 5:15 P.M. I went to my 1:30 P.M. appointment. I then gave a neighbor a ride back to our apartment building. I then went downtown to Greenwich Avenue. I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts Center. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue. I sat out at various locations. I toured www.cvs.com . After my walk, I used the bathroom again at the Senior and the Arts Center. I chatted with a friend. I returned home. There was a four point buck deer out in our parking lot lawn eating the grass, and it acted like it was not afraid of me. I chatted with a friend. The friend told me it is the mating season for deer, so they act a bit strange. I picked up the mail. I got a letter from the Greenwich Department of Social Services stating that the Renters Rebates will not be mailed out until mid December 2017, and they will be ten percent less than promised. I went outside again. CIO
12/01/17 Friday 12:20 P.M. I will now head out early to my 1:30 P.M. appointment. CIO
12/01/17 Friday 11:25 A.M. I drank my coffee outside. I washed the breakfast dishes. I made my bed. I will now go outside again. I will then shower and clean up. CIO
12/01/17 Friday 10:05 A.M. I woke up at 9 A.M.. I went outside. I paid my http://optonline.net/ Digital Cable TV, Optimum Boost Plus, Optimum Voice, and my http://www.verizon.net/ bill and my www.eversource.com electricity account. My current Optimum bill was about $203, which is about $65 for high speed Cable Modem, $35 for Optimum Voice long distance and about $103 for premium Cable TV. However that includes $35 in discounts for all three packages which covers the two cable boxes which are about $12 and taxes other fees. I printed out two copies of my Microsoft Sunset Income versus Spending report for November 2017, and I have one copy read to mail to an interested relative with a forever stamp. I will mail it downstairs in the mail room. I will eat breakfast of Kashi cereal and milk, a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance Spread and jelly, a glass of 50% punch and 50% cold filtered water, and a 12 ounce cup of regular coffee with Equal sweetener and milk and vitamins and supplements. I will go outside again. CIO
12/01/17 Friday 2:00 A.M. I will now shut down the primary work computer. I will then go to bed. I have to be up at 10 A.M. for a 1:30 P.M. appointment today. CIO
12/01/17 Friday 1:30 A.M. I went outside again. https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2017/alzheimers-rates-rise-fd.html?cmp=EMC-DSO-NLC-RSS-BRN--CTRL-113017-P1-2594591&ET_CID=2594591&ET_RID=121632&mi_u=121632&mi_ecmp=20171130_DailyBulletin_Control_247401_320001&encparam=bOFQlFwmDrIAlENPzsAYSf2BB34EBFHhEasCar6lS/I=
I will now go outside again. CIO
12/01/17 Friday 12:25 A.M. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42191096
12/01/17 Friday 12:15 A.M. I ate a salad of five ounces of butter lettuce with 3 ounces of diced Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese and three campari tomatoes cuts into quarters and three sliced medium mushrooms and two ounces of Chatham Village garlic and cheese croutons and a 3.75 ounce tin of sardines with oil and grated parmesan and Romano cheese and Wish Bone blue cheese dressing and Wish Bone balsamic and vinaigrette dressing and extra virgin olive oil with ground black pepper and a 12 ounce glass of diet Sprite Zero. I will now go outside again. CIO
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