Note:<888>12/31/98 Thursday 11:30 P.M. EST: I went out for a walk on lower Greenwich Avenue at 9 P.M.. There were lots of cars mostly at the movies, I believe. Starbucks was closed. I noticed a few people on the train station platform going into New York. Rue du Croissant, Thataway, Figaro, and the French restaurant at the corner of Grigg street, and Dome were busy with New Year diners. I saw out at the Post Office Plaza and had a Old Greenwich fifteen cent factory made cigar. I noticed while walking the Christian Science Reading room has a broken window on it front window display with a piece of plywood inserted in it. I walked the lower part of Greenwich Avenue. I chatted with another local evening walker. I drove down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road, and the Greenwich Harbor Inn and Maneros had lots of cars. Thus there are lots of people out, they're just not walking around in the 20 degree weather. The weather report is for sleet on Saturday night with medium snow on Sunday. Thus people should try to get ready for snowy winter conditions. I am having a glass of ice tea and relaxing reading internet stories. Well Happy New Years to all and stay warm, brrrr. CIO
Note:<888>12/31/98 Thursday 8:50 P.M. EST: I was up at 8 P.M.. I had breakfast of Oat Meal, toast, vitmains, orange juice, and cappacinno. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . I will finish my cappacinno, and go out for a little fresh air after I shower and clean up. I will start a C: drive to D: drive backup. Happy New Years. CIO
Note:<888>12/31/98 Thursday 12:35 P.M. EST: I have been up all night since the last message. I spent most of the night tweaking the system. I add a few system irregularities that I fixed. I basically had to uninstall and reinstall some programs. Everything is working fine now. I went out at 9 A.M. this morning. I stopped by Putnam Trust Bank of New York. I stopped by the Post Office and obtained four money orders to pay my Optimum Online, Cablevision, MCI, and GEICO. I stopped by Zyns and bought two buy two get one free of Doral Lights for $6 apiece or $12 all together. I returned to the car and stopped by CVS and bought a four pack with coupon of 40 Watt light bulbs for .99 and Old Spice 3.5 ounce deoderant stick $2 plus tax .18 for a total of $3.17. I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop. They have an old coffee table there for $100. I stopped by Exxon and bought $11.50 of gasoline. I stopped by the Grand Union and bought Dawn Power Plus liquid dishwashing detergent $2.49, a gallon of Pepperidge Goldfish crackers $5.29, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter .99, a pound of Cutrefellos mosserella cheese $2.99, two pounds of Early Morning bacon for $1.50 each, Perdue Boneless Breast of Chicken for $2.99 a pound total $4.40, GU 5 pounds of sugar $2.09, two Tony's Supreme pizzas for $2.50 each $5. total, and three Tree Ripe fresh orange juice half gallons for $1.99 each plus .15 tax for a total of $32.37. The Grand Union was full of the Old Guard. I then went by the Arnold Factory Bread store and bought three loaves of Healthnut bread for a total of $3.49. I then returned home and put away the groceries. I had some Fresh Florida Fruit salad, Ramen noodles, and ice tea. I then filed this report. I am a little bit tired, so I will go to bed shortly. It is warm and comfortable inside my apartment, but it was a bit cold outside today, probably in the low 20s. Well have a Happy New Years. CIO
Note:<888>12/30/98 Wednesday 10:25 P.M. EST: A friend of mine came down at 7:30 P.M., and we went out to dinner at Thataways Restaurant at the bottom left on Greenwich Avenue. We both had the sirloin grill sandwiches, with French Fries, and I also had ice tea and coffee. I just returned. It is cold as it gets outside, it must be below ten degrees F. outside with a wind chill well below Zero. Well we are suppose to have 40 to 50 mph hour winds, to make it feel even worse. I guess you can call it an artic cold front. It is warm and comfortable inside my apartment, and I turned the heat up a bit, and also have the Delongi oil filler radiator going. Well back to the net. I am fiddling with the Communicator Plugins, so they work with the @home interface. Stay warm. CIO
Note:<888>12/30/98 Wednesday 4:35 P.M. EST: I have awaken, and it is time for breakfast. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . CIO
Note:<888>12/30/98 Wednesday 7:15 A.M. EST: I updated Scott's Broadcast for this week sound.htm . Well time for bed. CIO
Note:<888>12/30/98 Wednesday 6:20 A.M. EST: I have been working on the internet and system all night. It was pretty slow on the net until about 11 P.M.. I suppose with all the youth home from school and business people working at home, the net is slow. However my system is up to snuff as far as the setup. I downloaded Netscape Communicator 4.07 from their web site at 4 A.M. and got over 550 Kbytes a second, which is just as fast as I would expect to go at the max. It took less than a minute for a 30 meg file. I checked with Optimum Online support at 1-203-750-8790 a half hour before closing at midnight. Bill there gave me a tip to run from your Windows 98 Cdrom to install "E:\tools\mtsutil\ipac_off.inf" by right clicking on it and selecting "Install" with the computer online to the cable modem. He said it turned off a setting I don't need. I downloaded some of the plugins and addins to Communicator 4.07 also. I am frustrated that the IE 5.0 interface to @home does not work with my bookmarks immediately, but takes about five minutes to load. I did not figure out a way to work aorund that. I had MS IE 5.0 setup as my web browser default, so when one clicks the @home Icon it starts MS IE 5.0. I can start @home by starting Communicator without the wait. Basically it is a minor annoyance, but I like the @home interface for Microsoft Internet Explorer better since you can use it in a full window, however I don't intend to give up my Favorites. I had a Club sandwich about 3 A.M. and a bowl of Fresh Florida Fruit just now. Well it is time to be off to bed. Have a good day. CIO
Note:<888>12/29/98 Tuesday 8:20 P.M. EST: I worked on the computer yesterday morning until about 5 A.M. doing routine computer work. I chatted with on fellow down in Florida about General Motors. I had a CVS factory made cigar outside about 5 A.M.. I made a fresh Florida Fruit salad by sectioning three grapefruit, three oranges, four clementines, and mixing them together with a cup of orange juice, a cup of cranberry juice, two teaspoons of Angostora bitters and two jiggers of Mount Gay rum. I let the who mixture sit in the fridge for a day in a rubbermaid container, and it should be ready for tasting about now. I got up at 4 P.M. and had breakfast of Old Fashioned Oatmeal, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappacinno. I got a tired spell after breakfast, so I went back to sleep until 8 P.M.. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well I have to clean up, I don't know whether I will bother going downtown. CIO
Note:<888>12/29/98 Tuesday 1:40 A.M. EST: I have worked on the internet all evening. I went out briefly for a half hour around 9 P.M.. It is cold and lightly raining outside. I did my laundry this evening. I had another club sandwich for a light mid day snack about 10 P.M.. Not a lot happening on the net, with people relaxing over the Holidays. Well back to the net. By the way, the net speeds up a lot about midnight here. CIO
Note:<888>12/28/98 Monday 5:00 P.M. EST: I was up at 4 P.M.. My alarm did not go off, so I missed my 4 P.M. appointment, I called to day I would not be there. I had breakfast of GU raisin bran, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappacinno. I optimized the hard drive. I am using the Win98 version of speed disk, since the Norton Demo will expire in two weeks. I am listening to tech news stories. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well have a good evening. CIO
Note:<888>12/28/98 Monday 4:45 A.M. EST: I put up a sound file Beethoven's Ninth Finale http://www.mikescott.net/beeth09.htm to show how one can encode a Real Audio file from CD with MusicMatch: The Jukebox and rename the resulting .ra file .rm and place it in a Microsoft Media Player plugin and to have real time music from one's server. CIO
Note:<888>12/28/98 Monday 2:00 A.M. EST: I had a club sandwich about midnight along with a cup of Cappacinno. I logged onto the MP3.com - The MP3 resource on the Internet site and downloaded MusicMatch: The Jukebox , and then downloaed 36 songs about 110 megabytes from MP3 in about an hour. Now I have some local music on my hard drive for my listening enjoyment. Well the house is not exactly rocking, but I am warm and comfortable on this December Eve. Back to the Net. CIO
Note:<888>12/27/98 Sunday 11:00 P.M. EST: I went to bed about 6 A.M. this morning after checking out some net speeds. At the early hours of the moring between 3 and 5 A.M., I was gettng 450 Kbytes a second uploading and downloading on the modem, so it is really fast when lots of people are not on the net. During the day, I am about five to to ten times faster on the net with the cablemodem. I also chatted with a tech person further out in Connecticut. He convinced me to set my onboard VGA and monitor to 85 HZ, which works much better and is less difficult on the eyes. The floppies still work, so it might have been a problem with a file, that I fixed when I reinstalled software like IE 5.0 beta. I went to bed about 6 A.M.. I was up about 5:30 P.M. after a good days sleep. I had breakfast of GU raisin bran, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappacinno. I chatted with a family member. I watered the plants and cleaned the apartment until about 8:30 P.M.. I cleaned up and went out for a walk on lower Greenwich Avenue which I walked twice. I smoked a White Owl panatella at the post office plaza. It was not too busy out with just a few people going to movies. It is in the low 30s F.. I stopped by Cumberland Farms and bought a spare pack of Doral Ultra lights for $2.34.. I am listening to www.imagineradio.com which has diverse music. I have to make myself another club sandwich, I am a little hungry. Well have a good morning. CIO
Note:<888>12/27/98 Sunday 3:40 A.M. EST: www.cablemodeminfo.com CIO
Note:<888>12/27/98 Sunday 3:10 A.M. EST: After doing all this I went out about midnight and drove downtown to the Chase money machine, since the Putnam Trust ATM is out of cash. I drove down Greenwich Avenue. I went back to Byram and stopped by Cumberland Farms for a gallon of milk for $2.89 and a pack of Doral Ultra Lights 100 for $2.19. I returned home and made a new batch of icetea.htm this time using a can of Ginger Ale in lieu of a cup of wine. I made another Turkey, Ham, Bacon, Cheese club sandwich for my meal. I had a cup of Cappacinno. I have not cleaned up today, so I will wait until after I do house cleaning when I wake up today to clean up. Well back to the net. CIO
Note:<888>12/27/98 Sunday 2:50 A.M. EST: I was up at 6 P.M. today. I had breakfast of GU raisin brans, toast, fresh florida fruit mix, vitamins, orange juice, and cappacinno. I started working on the computer after breakfast. I looked at some cable sites about tweaking the Windows 98 setup for use with a cable modem. I found this site PH Net - Cable Modems . I set my "MTU" to 1500, Default MSS to "1460", and "DefaultRcv Window" to 64240. I will show where they are refered to in the text of the page I am pasting here.
* = Changes Scott used in exerpt of page below.
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Recommended Registry Settings for Windows
95/98
Open the Registry ( START-RUN-Regedit ) and modify all the
following parameters. If the keys don't exist, you'll have to
create them. Don't forget to Backup your Registry, before
editing. The best value for each variable is in RED.
HKey_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\NetTrans\000n
(Where "000n" is your TCP/IP protocol. It
contains "TCP/IP" assigned to the
"DriverDesc" Value)
*I used MaxMTU="1500"
MaxMTU="1500" (string
var, can be 552, 576 or 1500)
MaxMSS="1460" (string var, power of 2, 40 less than MTU)
* I did not find MaxMSS in the above registry key above , but I found "Default MSS" in the registry key below which I set to "1460"
* For "DefaultRcv Window" below I used "64240". I tried the other higher settings, but this setting on my system gave the most unifrom download speeds, although some of the other produced higher download speeds results, they would drop back and were more irregular. I would advise backing up your registry before tampering with the setings, and the recommendations for Windows 98 in the page link above, I did not use on my system just the three you see mentioned with the "*".
HKey_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP
DefaultRcvWindow="64240" (DWORD decimal var,
or string var, 4xMSS, 8xMSS or more...Can also be 4xMTU+24. Best
settings to try are 64240 , 46720, 32120, 17520, 11680 and 8760 ,
in that order)
Note: If you're using Windows 98, you can try a larger value,
however you'll have to experiment to find out whether you get any
improvement with those ( you might want to try 372300, 186880 and
93440 ). If you're using Windows 95, stick to the previous
recomendations, the maximum RWin should be a multiple of MSS, not
exceeding 64K.
DefaultTTL="128" (string
var, 32, 64 or 128)
PMTUDiscovery="0" (DWORD
decimal var, zero for optimal performance)
PMTUBlackHoleDetect="0" (DWORD
decimal var, zero for optimal performance)
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Note:<888>12/26/98 Saturday 7:30 A.M. EST: Another night of web surfing. I tried to change most of my email addresses on my subscription email sites. I am a bit bushed, and I think it is time to rest. At night the Cable Modem is incredably fast, more than I ever expected. I downloaded Microsoft Office - Microsoft Publisher 30 Day demo, to try out very quickly. CIO
Note:<888>12/25/98 Friday 11:00 P.M. EST: I went out for a walk after cleaning up. I dropped off a videotape at the book drop at the Greenwich Library. I walked the lower section of Greenwich Avenue. It is about fifteen degrees F. outside. I noticed at the train station garage computer dumping area they have three computer metal slide drawers which normally cost $50 apiece, and several older wide carridge printers. I noticed a group coming out of the movie theatre. The Sun Down Saloon and the Globe Restaurant along with the Chinese restaurant were open. There were a few strollers out and about. I smoked a CVS cigar at the Post Office plaza. I drove down by the water on Steamboat Road and surveyed the sky and the stars. I returned home about 10 P.M.. Since I am overweight, having lost three pounds from 209 to 206, I decided not to cook a large Christmas dinner. Instead I defrosted some white turkey meat left over from Thanksgiving, I toasted two slices of bread, and put Dijon mustard on one piece and low fat mayonaise on the other piece, I microwaved three strips of bacon, I put a slice of ham on the dijon piece, I put slices white turkey meat on top of that with a few drops of Tabassco sauce, I put slices of mosserella cheese on top of that and then three strips of crispy microwave bacon on top of that and the other piece of bread with the mayonaise. I did not have lettuce or tomatoe to add to the Club sandwich, and which as usual I cut it into triangular quarters. It was an excellent Christmas meal with a Diet Pepsi. I am now having a cup of cappacinno. Well back to the faster net. Merry Christmas. CIO
Note:<888>12/25/98 Friday 8:10 P.M. EST: I just finished listening to BBC News | Christmas and New Year | Queen: Ties that bind the generationsQueen Elizabeth's Christmas Broadcast. I will link it from the homepage. CIO
Note:<888>12/25/98 Friday 7:40 P.M. EST: Since the last message I worked until 9 A.M. this past morning making a backup from the C: drive to the D: drive which took one hour fifteen minutes. I also ran Norton Speedisk which took over five hours and left it running when I went to bed at 9 A.M.. I slept until 3 P.M. getting up some time to shut down the computer when the Speed Disk program was complete. I chatted with family relative during the period I was asleep and after I woke up. I started a tape backup of the C: drive which took 4 hours and 15 minutes. Thus I have the system all tweaked and routine maintenance performed including the two backups. I found out, that one can turn on the Cable Modem with the computer turned on, and it works fine initiating, and one does not need to turn it on with computer off. I have my cable modem power connected to the Ground Fault protected control panel, so I just flip a switch to turn it on, along with the other components. Well I got some nice gifts for Christmas including my Computer accessories which I am using. Well Merry Christmas. I will probably have a Christmas dinner around 10 P.M. CIO
Note:<888>12/25/98 Friday 2:50 A.M. EST: On the Florida site, I am uploading at 300 kilobytes a second. CIO
Note:<888>12/25/98 Friday 2:30 A.M. EST: I uploaded a slightly larger version of scottie1.zip linked from download.htm, the large Microsoft Internet Explorer Favorites File Group with 62,078 working file links which added to the U.S. DOD file group means Scott's has 72,293 Favorites available for download. I basically added about another 500 links from the tech news letters I read in the last month, and there are a few new links in the "Shopping and Malls" category for your shopping pleasure. It takes about 300 Megabytes for both file groups in FAT 32, so it is a hard disk hog. I also found out that Optimum AT Home Microsoft Internet Explorer Web Interface tries to import all the favorites every time you open it, which takes five to ten minutes, so I recommend using the Netscape interface to open At Home's content. They should give an option on opening the Favorites. This happens everytime, you open their MS Internet Explorer interface. With the Cable modem at this hour of the day, I uploaded the almost 18 meg file to California in about fifteen minutes at 150 kilobytes a second. Pretty good speed across country, but of course in the daytime it would be much slower. Let's hope somebody enjoys it somewhere in the world. I also left my MTU settings as they were before, I don't know if they effect Cable Modem speed on the LAN. I will have to look into that. I suppose, they might be right. Also I reintalled MS Internet Explorer 5.0 beta 2 from the download on my local hard drive, to have the original beta files installed. I hope this does not affect any of the other MS upgrades. I also changed the count and email in the "scott005.zip" download. Well I think I might do a speed surfing and maybe try chatting a bit before going to bed. CIO
Note:<888>12/25/98 Friday 12:40 A.M. EST: Merry Christmas to All. I am warm and comfortable staying inside. My new cable modem service from http://www.optimumonline.com is working great, lots of increased speed particulary at night. Of course in the day time, one slows down a bit because of net congestion and slower sites. I had a bowl of Progresso New England Clam Chowder about 7 P.M. and some Ritz crackers. I slept from then until 10:30 P.M. when family members called up. It is great having a free telephone line for the first time in eight years of online activity, so I can recieve incoming phone calls while online on the internet. How times have changed. I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas Eve services. I updated my email settings and checked out the Cable configuration. Everything seems to be running fine. I will test out a few sites, before going back to bed and resting and relaxing. I sent out change of email messages to a few people. I also updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . I have about an inch of snow on my car, and feel like relaxing in the warmth and comfort of my apartment before getting some sleep. Merry Christmas. CIO
Note:<888>12/24/98 Thursday 2:30 P.M. EST: I went to bed at 3 P.M. this morning and awoke at 8:30 P.M.. I had my usual breakfast. I cleaned up and awaited the arrival of Optimum Online. Three Optimum Online Technicians arrived at 10:30 A.M. and after installing the cable split from the wall after testing the circuit. They installed an Intel Ethernet 100 MB card in the computer and connected it to the Cable Modem, which I set on top of the computer. I connected the cable modem power supply to the Control Panel ground fault interrupter for electrical surge protection. The computer technician installed the software and setup the system. They were pretty dang fast and had it all installed by noon. Thanks again guys. I downloaded some of the web browser updates from Cablevision and addons. Downloading is super fast. When the system boots, it logs onto the At Home Network. The At Home Icon boots Netscape Communicator. However, Microsoft Internet Explorer also starts with At Home interface if desired. I can not get it to start fast though, since it take about five minutes to load my large bookmark file, into its interface, thus I open it to my local copy of Scott's Site. I checked the settings the technician setup on my system on the network, and will have to jot them down, so I remember for future reference. The service is extremely quick depending onto what sites one logs onto, and the time of day. I am most pleased with the professional of the installation by the crew. I do recommend plugging in your cable modem power supply to your ground fault interrupter power supply. I will have to do a bit of net surfing. We had an inch of snow this morning. My new email is "mikelouisscott@home.com". Well Merry Christmas Everyone. CIO
Note:<888>12/24/98 Thursday 2:15 A.M. EST: Time to get a long nap, before getting up around 9 A.M. to wait for the Cable Modem installer to arrive this morning. Have a relaxing Christmas Eve. CIO
Note:<888>12/23/98 Wednesday 9:10 P.M. EST: I was up at noon and had breakfast of Kellogg's Corn Flakes, toast, orange juice, vitamins, and cappacinno. I felt a tired spell, so I went back to sleep until 4 P.M., so I am up on a night schedule. I had a snack of Ramen noodles and Fresh Florida Fruit salad at 6 P.M.. I went out at 6:30 P.M. and stopped by the Greenwich Library and read the local paper, and two computer newsweeklies. I went for a walk downtown on lower Greenwich Avenue and smoked an old Greenwich factory made fifteen cent cigar at the post office plaza. Not much is going on around town, and it is quite slow with the colder weather. The library was virtually empty. The library elevator has been broken for the last two days, so people have to enter through the back basement entrance. I heard that they will be closing at 3 P.M. on Christmas Eve. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm , so the Stockmarket is doing quite well. However, more than likely that will change next year, and the River Boat gamblers whom are profiteering during our economy's bullish period will probably be going back to other forms of less profitable gambling. Still the sense of prosperity is in the air, but prosperity is only a temporary illussion, more than likely "Good Health" is more important in the long run. For those of you whom don't pay much attention to the night people whom work the night hours of the day, remember, "Half the World Dies at Night". Well enough of the gloomy predictions, so let's hope everyone has a "Merrry Christmas", and a "Prosperous and Peaceful New Years". If one feels like attending Christmas Eve services in the area, Christ Church has an earlier service about 7 P.M., and if one times it right, one can leave that service about 9 P.M., and make it to St. John's Cathedral in the upper west side of Manhattan for their Christmas Eve service about 10 P.M., which is quite a delight to see such a large group of people. I am looking forward to having my cable modem service installed tomorrow between 10 A.M. and 1 P.M.. Back to the net. CIO
Note:<888>12/23/98 Wednesday 3:20 A.M. EST: I am bushed time to sign out for the day. Stay Warm. BrRrRrRr! CIO
Note:<888>12/23/98 Wednesday 1:45 A.M. EST: I signed up for another universal email address which I probably won't use at NET@DDRESS - Free E-Mail For Everybody! . CIO
Note:<888>12/23/98 Wednesday 1:45 A.M. EST: I took the long Microsoft Favorites file off the Florida site, and left it on the California Site linked from download.htm . I added Queen Elizabeth's Christmas 1997 Christmas Broadcast File at the Florida site linked from gb.htm . I also added the Previous Scott's Broadcasts linked from sound.htm at http://www.mikescott.net/soundpr.htm for those of you whom want to listen to some of my earlier broadcasts. I will use the additional space at the Florida Site for this purpose, until I have other content. The California pages will link to the Florida site. It will be a little bit more difficult to maintain both sites, since they won't be identical, but since my *.zip files occupy a lot of space and don't generate a lot of traffic, although they are my main effort, I will post less of them at both sites gradually. I also have 2 Gigabytes transfer at the Florida site now, so I have more baud with without overcharges for now. CIO
Note:<888>12/22/98 Tuesday 11:15 P.M. EST: I had dinner of bacon, ham, and moserrella cheese omlette, toast, ice tea, and cappacinno. I went out at 8 P.M. and stopped by the Greenwich Library and read the local paper. It was not very busy. I noticed downtown that it was not busy either since it is cold out for a change. I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the lower section three times. It is was comfortable enough for me since I wore my long underware, turtle neck along with Canadian Goose sweater and down parka and Icelandic Knit cap and leather gloves to stay warm. It is a windy cold wind. It is suppose to get colder, lets hope it is not five degrees on Christmas day that might be a little too cold. I found a walking caine disgarded in front of Lecters at the post office boxes, and I placed it by the entrance to the senior center. Starbucks was busy with Holiday coffee drinkers. I suppose this time of year, most people are getting ready for the deep freeze. I put out my DeLongi oil filled electric radiators for a little extra heat. It is plenty warm in the apartment. I also activated the humidifier to remove the dryness and put in some of the humidity that electric heat takes out of the apartment. I suppose I will do a little net surfing this evening. Enjoy the morning hours, and I hope everyone is warm enough. CIO
Note:<888>12/22/98 Tuesday 6:45 P.M. EST: I went to bed at 5:30 A.M. this morning. I was up at 12:30 P.M. when a friend called. I had breakfast of Kellogg's Corn Flakes, toast, fresh Florida fruit, vitamins, orange juice, and cappacinno. I dressed and went out and stopped by the Stamford YMCA to deliver a letter and a package my friend had recieved. I also dropped off some housekeeping provisions for him. He plans to take the bus from the Port Authority in Manhattan on early Wednesday morning to visit his family in Northern Vermont. He is truely a cold weather person for these parts. I then stopped by the Old Greenwich Thrift shop. I stopped by the Old Greenwich CVS and bought twenty factory made mild cigars for $2.85. I drove out to Tod's Point, but it was a bit cold. I stopped by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop. I drove down to Zyns and bought a pack of buy two get one free of Doral Lights for $6. I smoked one of my factory fifteen cent cigars in front of the post office. I drove by the Arnold Bread Store outlet and bought two loaves of Healthnut bread for $2.58. I returned home and showed one of my neighbors my internet setup. I updated Scott's Index scopor01.htm . Well have a good evening. After dinner, I will probably stop by the library and read the computer press. It is pretty cold out, suppose to be going down into the 20s. CIO
Note:<888>12/22/98 Tuesday 5:20 A.M. EST: I tweaked a few setting on the computer. All seems to be running fine. I noticed in an older CompUSA circular from November that my CompUSA 19 inch monitor had been on sale there for $350 with an instant rebate instead of $399 which I paid. Maybe if they have it on sale in the next 30 day period, I will get back an extra $50 which I could use since they have price protection. Well it works fine for me. I listened to some "Oldies" on www.spinner.com . In my broadcast sound.htm in mentioning Liberty Travel's package to Tabago Trinidad & Tobago Destination main staying at the Mount Irvine Bay and Golf Club, the price I was quoted last December was $850 per person double occupancy with airfare. I guess there are a lot of new destinations in the world, so this is no longer off the beaten path. Well I hope to see some daylight today, so I will bid adieu and catch some shut eye. Enjoy the beginning of today, before it gets cold. CIO
Note:<888>12/22/98 Tuesday 1:40 A.M. EST: I updated my weekly broadcast file sound.htm .
Note:<888>12/22/98 Tuesday 12:00 P.M. EST: Well I went out at 8 P.M., and stopped by the Greenwich Library and read a copy of the Greenwich Times. Today they had lots of copies. I read Infoworld Computer Newsweekly. I went for a walk on the lower section on Greenwich Avenue. It was a cool damp evening. An artic cold spell is suppose to come in tomorrow afternoon. I smoked a CVS Factory made fifteen cent cigar in front of the senior center. There were not many people out on Monday night. I returned home and started my laundry, and I just finished putting it away. About 10:30 P.M., I had a bacon and mozerrella cheese omlette, a bowl of Campbell's low fat clam chowder, and a Schweppes Ginger Ale and then a cup of Cappacinno. I have put on weight and weigh 209 pounds I need to loose ten to twenty pounds. I weigh more now than I ever have. I suppose with all the sedantary activity in front of the computer, I don't get enough physical activity, although I don't really eat that much. I will now do a little internet activity. Enjoy the morning. CIO