End of Scott's Notes week of 08/09/09: 

Note: <888> 08/09/09 Sunday 3:25 A.M..  I have the older version of this Brita Ultramax Water Dispensers: Larger Capacity Water Filters For The Family | Brita in my refrigerator which I fill up regularly.  It has been about two years since I replaced the filter, so I put in my new spare filter.

Note: <888> 08/09/09 Sunday 12:10 A.M..  I'm cooking the eye round the way that I cook it.  It will be ready in 20 minutes.  I will eat two half inch thick slices with my usual vegetable mixture which recently has included asparagus.  I notice downtown in the past week, they now have another Chase Bank where the WAMU bank used to be just south of the Greenwich Post Office on Greenwich Avenue.  It where the Korean vegetable stand use to be.   CIO 

Note: <888> 08/08/09 Saturday 11:10 P.M..  I watched television until 4 A.M. this morning, and I ate a few ounces of Cheez-its.  I went to bed until noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I watched some www.foxnews.com .  I went to back to bed until 5 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a friend.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich with 1/4th of a 6.2 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a regular walker.  At Zen stationary, I played a Quick Silver II scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I browsed CVS.  I chatted with a relative on my wireless phone.  The Best and Company store just north of the Senior and the Arts center has a "For Lease" sign above its store window.  I am not sure if it is for the store or the building.  It was a moderately active night this evening.  After my walk, I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf station, and I bought $17.01 of self service premium gasoline at $3.199 a gallon for 5.318 gallons 60.7 miles driving since the Tuesday on July 28, 2009, when I filled up on returning from Kennebunkport, Maine for 11.414 miles per gallon driving mostly locally in town at odometer reading of 64,132 miles.  I cleaned the outside windows, and I checked the tire pressure all around for 32 PSI.  I next went to the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 8 pack of Stop and Shop hot dog buns for $1.67, a half gallon of Florida Natural orange juice for $3, three 12 ounce cans of Emerald dry roasted almonds for $10 all, a 10 ounce bottle of Lea and Perrins regular Worcestershire sauce for $3.39, buy one get one free of Nathan's 16 ounce beef franks for $5.29 both, and fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.84 for $25.19 total.  I then returned home.  I picked up my mail.  I put away my groceries.  I was told by a relative that the grass seed that I planted in Kennebunkport, Maine is not coming up too well, so if we are lucky, it might take another week to come up.  Hopefully it was not all washed away by the heavy rainstorm the day after I planted the grass seed.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/08/09 Saturday 2:30 A.M..  I ate a 1/5th piece of apple pie with some watered down passion punch.

Note: <888> 08/08/09 Saturday 12:50 A.M..  I chatted with a relative.  Happy Birthday to a relative.

Tracking is UPS: Tracking Information on the order for two pairs of L.L.Bean: union suit or Two-Layer Union Suit, Men's in tall XX-Large in Red for $54 each with free shipping with promotion coupon of "3012422" and $6.48 tax for $114.48 total.

The printed version of the www.greenwichtime.com has a headline about a sailboat race coming to Greenwich that is not in the internet version.  However, it might be an old newspaper in the newspaper box downtown, since frequently they do not put new newspapers in the newspaper boxes downtown anymore.  Yesterday and today, I did see two men wearing Bermuda shorts, so possibly we have visitors from Bermuda here.

This time of year, you have to look at

http://mikelouisscott.com/weather.htm

http://geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm

so possibly though with the colder weather up north this summer, there will not be much of a hurricane season down south, but I have been told it is hotter than normal down there, so possibly the Atlantic waters are warm enough to generate hurricane weather.  Of course some people down south make so much money off tourists in the winter, they can afford to come up north in the summer to see how the other half of the country lives.

Five Cash-Rich Companies - Forbes.com .

Beware of Bears Elk Mountain Retreats for sale .

I received email, they are resending the Audi Service CD, so I will be able to do a correct installation soon.

This is probably a good deal without a tuner, but I can not afford it Sony SLV-D380P DVD/VCR Combo $64.95 free shipping new with factory warranty .

This five year old model refurbished is available for $33.99 with free shipping Sony DVP-NS575P DVD Player Progressive Scan Free Ship - eBay (item 170363069341 end time Aug-22-09 12:04:58 PDT) .

However, I do not really need a DVD player for the bedroom, and I have an older almost new Daewoo DVD/VCR in the living room.

There is this refurbished item too PHILIPS PROGRESSIVE SCAN DVD CD MP3 DVP3962/37 PLAYER - eBay (item 370193976183 end time Aug-25-09 10:50:31 PDT) for $42.50 with free shipping which is a more current item.

It says here it is available at Walmart 680 Connecticut Avenue new in Norwalk for $42 new in stock Walmart.com: Philips Progressive Scan DVD Player w/ 1080i Upconversion, DVP3962/37: DVD & Blu-ray Players .

This is also available new Walmart.com: Sony DVD Player w/ Progressive Scan, DVP-SR200P/B: DVD & Blu-ray Players $39.95.

Thus if I ever decide I really need a DVD player for the bedroom, I might go up to one of the two Walmarts in Norwalk, and get one for around $40.

Note: <888> 08/07/09 Friday 6:45 P.M..  I woke up at 9:30 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I chatted with a relative.  I surfed the internet.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I waited for the mail to arrive.  It arrived about 2:15 P.M..  I went out downtown, and I went by the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue.  I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Havemayer Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by the Greenwich Hardware store.  I stopped by CVS.  I next went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with a reference librarian.  I then went by the A&P Fresh, and I 36 ounce bag of Eight O'clock Hazelnut coffee beans for $14.99, a 24 ounce Apple crumb pie for $3.50, a Angus eye round of beef for $3.99 a pound for $12.93 and fresh asparagus for $2.50 a pound for $2.42 for $33.90 total.  I then returned home, and I picked up my mail.  I put away the groceries.  I chatted with a relative.  In the mail, I got a $19 Staples Visa rebate card, so the case of Hammermill paper, I bought in July 2009, only cost $19.  I will now make and eat the same dinner as last night.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/07/09 Friday 1:50 A.M..  I watched some television.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good night.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/07/09 Friday 12:20 A.M..  I chatted with a friend about the price of tea in China.  I think McDonalds on West Putnam Avenue closes at midnight, but I think the drive up window at Wendy's on West Putnam Avenue is opened until 2 A.M. for night owls.  Of course the Colonial Diner on East Putnam Avenue across from the Y.M.C.A. is opened 24 hours a day seven days a week, but I do not think you can get scrambled eggs, bacon, and English muffin and coffee there anymore for $2, it is probably more like $8.  I was told in downtown Greenwich, Connecticut a hard drink now costs $7 and a beer costs $5 for those of you whom can still afford to drink liquor, which not many people can afford to do anymore.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/06/09 Thursday 11:35 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  I went downtown, and the men's bathroom was busy for a long time at Starbucks.  I tried to use the bathroom next door at the Senior and the Arts center, but the Senior and the Arts center was closed at 8:30 P.M..  I drove up to CVS, and I had to wait for three people to use the bathroom there.  I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue, and I chatted with a regular.  I then returned home at 10 P.M., because Starbucks was closed, and there was not bathroom available, and I had a tired spell.  I could have used the bathroom at Thataways on lower Greenwich Avenue which is opened until 2 P.M., but since I was a bit tired, I returned home.  I ate a 9.25 ounce can of Planters' bits and pieces cashew nuts along with watered down passion punch.

Note: <888> 08/06/09 Thursday 8:20 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I will now go out for a walk.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/06/09 Thursday 7:20 P.M..  I am making and will eat the same dinner as last night in 20 minutes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/06/09 Thursday 4:35 P.M..  Just in case they run out like last fall, I ordered two pairs of L.L.Bean: union suit or Two-Layer Union Suit, Men's in tall XX-Large in Red for $54 each with free shipping with promotion coupon of "3012422" and $6.48 tax for $114.48 total.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/06/09 Thursday 4:10 P.M..  I watched television until 4:30 A.M. mostly a travel program about Aspen, Colorado which looks expensive.  I then went to bed.  I woke up at noon.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I picked up the mail.  The rent statement from the Greenwich Housing Authority still has not arrived yet.

I called up California about an auto part for a neighbor, but it is not available.

My www.cl-p.com electricity bill for the month of July 2009, when I was gone for 10 days with everything turned off including the hot water except the refrigerator was $177.38.

That is for a period of 27 days with usage of 913 kWh or 33.81 kWh a day with an average temperature of 71.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

My electricity bill for July 2008, when I was gone two weeks with the hot water and refrigerator turned on was $135.93 for 30 days or 683 kWh or 22.77 kWh a day with an average temperature of 76.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

Thus July  2009 is running 4.6 degree Fahrenheit cooler that last year, which possibly means a colder winter coming up this winter.

Since I live in a building heated by electric heat in the winter which I do not use to save money, I would recommend buying the good heavy wool two layer union suit L.L.Bean: union suit which I have two pairs of, but since I usually wear two pairs to stay warm with one lighter cheaper one, I would buy two more to have to stay warmer this winter, if I could afford it.  I have to let the extra pair of two to hang dry after washing them every week, which is why I need two sets.  I do not put them in the dryer, although they are suppose to shrink proof.

I am listening to CD music with the wireless headphones.  I am currently listening to Beethoven's Ninth.   CIO

Note: <888> 08/06/09 Thursday 2:45 A.M..  Windows 7 Free to Select Beta Testers -- Redmond Channel Partner

Note: <888> 08/06/09 Thursday 12:35 A.M..  If one were really into good cooking and could afford it, you could order for PC machines McAfee Virusscan 2009 for .99 and QuickStart: Low-Carb Food Label Analyzer for .99, MasterCook Deluxe 8.0 for $7.95, Healthy Living and Just Healthy Recipes for $5, QuickStart: Low-Carb Personalized Diet Helper for $2.99 Let's Get Cooking for $1.99 for $19.91 and $3.99 shipping for $23.90

Note: <888> 08/05/09 Wednesday 11:10 P.M..  I went downtown, and I stopped by CVS.  I picked up two prescriptions.  I bought two 32 ounce Lysol 4 in 1 spray cleaners for $3 each and .36 tax for $6.36 total.  I then went further downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by Zen stationary, and I bought a Fast Cash scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I noticed there was some electrical repair work going on at the bottom of Greenwich Avenue at Railroad Avenue.  I stopped by the Senior and the Arts center, and I used the bathroom.  I chatted with a relative on my wireless telephone.  I stopped by CVS again, and I bought a Sharpie four different colors high lighter for .99 and .06 tax for a $1.05.  I chatted with somebody about Greenwich from Largemount, New York.  I finished my walk, and I sat out for a while, and then I returned home.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/05/09 Wednesday 6:55 P.M..  I went outside, and I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I made and ate my regular breaded boneless breast of chicken dinner with my usual vegetable mixture with Smart Balance and olive oil and a glass of watered down passion punch and a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I will now go out for a possible walk and other errands.  I also watched the www.abcnews.com evening news.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/05/09 Wednesday 5:20 P.M..  For Big Buck Government people on the run Federal Government Computers - Official Toughbook Federal Computers .  CIO

Note: <888> 08/05/09 Wednesday 5:15 P.M..  I watched a bit of a movie last night after the last note.  I ate about 20% of a 16 ounce jar of Planters' dry roasted peanuts.  I went to bed at 1:30 A.M..  I woke up at 8:30 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until noon.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I threw out some garbage.

The order for Rs120 / Rs-120 926 MHz Wireless RF Headphones, Charging Cradle, bstock w/ Warran DAKmart for $29.98 and $12.89 shipping for $42.87 total arrived.  The two metal hydride AAA batteries go underneath one of the ear piece covers.  I took off the old wireless Emerson headphones and put them underneath the sideboard in the bedroom.  I connected up the new headphones.  They work just fine.  The headphones have a on and off button, a tuning button, and a volume button.  They are rechargeable with the AAA metal hydride batteries from the base unit.  The Base unit comes with RCA plugs, and a small 1/8th jack adapter and the larger old headphone adapter.   They work just fine.  I have to let them fully charge up.  I am also charging up two spare pairs of AAA metal hydride batteries to have in reserve.  They will be fully charged at 2 A.M..  I read the back issues of the computer periodical magazines, and I then threw them out.  I have six different ones that I have to renew for free.  I chatted with a neighbor.  I picked up my mail earlier.  There might be thunderstorms this evening.  CIO     

Note: <888> 08/04/09 Tuesday 11:50 P.M..  Isolated thunder showers tomorrow afternoon and a high of 88 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/04/09 Tuesday 11:15 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  The Greenwich Housing Authority heavy item remover has already put the Panasonic television in the back of his truck.  I went by Radio Shack in Cos Cob.  I bought a RadioShack Gold Series Phono-to-Phono Audio Coupler - RadioShack.com for $4.69, two item number 15-3011 RadioShack goldseries 6 foot mono audio cables as clearance items for $2.77 each, and a 15-3012 12 foot mono audio cable as a clearance item for $1.47 and .70 tax for $12.40 total. I then tried to by some nuts at CVS at the Cos Cob CVS, but they do not take food stamps there yet like the store on Greenwich Avenue.  They will soon.  I then went to the CVS store on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought four 9.25 ounce cans of Planters' cashew nuts bits and pieces for buy one get one free for $5.49 two or $10.98 total.  I then sat out briefly downtown.  It was a little busier this evening.  I then went to the Stop and Shop, and I bought a six pack of Bulkie rolls with seeds for $3.19, sliced deli Stop and Shop honey cured ham for $4.99 a pound for $7.09, sliced Alpine Lace Swiss cheese for $5.99 a pound for $6.02, buy one get one free of small packages of Purdue Boneless breasts of chicken for $4.99 a pound for $10.93 the more expensive package and $10.38 the free one, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, a 3 pound bag of yellow onions for $2.49, a bag of baby red potatoes for $1.99 a pound for $2.65, broccoli crowns for .99 a pound for $1.32, and a bulb of garlic for $2.99 a pound for .46 for $37.90 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  I had brought up the mail earlier.

I then removed the 25 foot double audio cable from the Cable box and the Dazzle USB device by the FIC server.  I removed the audio and video cables that were connected to the Orion television audio and video out connectors from the rear of the Sony television in the bedroom.  I had another 20 foot double audio cable, and I used that to run from the Cable box rear through the false ceiling between the living room and the bedroom to the Sony television in the bedroom, and I used the 12 foot audio video cable to connect up the video from the Cable box rear to the bedroom Sony television.  Thus when the bedroom Sony television is turned to Video 1 which one does with the Input button on the Philips Universal remote control, one changes from the lower cable channels without the cable box to the cable box video on the bedroom Sony television.  I put the extra audio and video cables underneath the bed, and the coupler in the top left desk drawer in the living room.  I put the USB dazzle device on the sideboard in the bedroom.  I chatted with a relative.

I ate two hot dogs with two buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/04/09 Tuesday 7:00 P.M..  I woke up at 8:30 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative twice. 

It is interesting in the recent recession Chase Morgan www.chase.com and Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs seem to doing better than other financial firms.  It is also interesting a lot of the Obama employees are Goldman Sachs personnel.  What is even more interesting is that Goldman Sachs Board of Directors James A. Johnson is also on The Trilateral Commission Trilateral Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia which was started by David Rockefeller and included Paul Volcker as a founding member.  Thus it would seem that with Jay Rockefeller being a senior heir of the Rockefeller family and a democrat, he switched the Rockefeller republican politics to the democrat party.  Also Goldman Sachs did the Initial Public Offering or IPO for Microsoft.

Note: <888> 08/04/09 Tuesday 12:05 A.M..  I made a three egg omelet with processed slices of cheese and grated and parmesan and Romano cheese and six strips of fried bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance and watered down passion punch.  I watched some television.  The audio seems to be working fine on the bedroom Panasonic television for now.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Sunny tomorrow with a high of 86 degrees Fahrenheit.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 8:55 P.M..  Before I took a nap,  I ate two hot dogs with two buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I just cleaned the Ionic Pro air purifier.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 8:30 P.M..  I watered the plants.  I went outside, and I threw out the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.  I noticed today, there is a lot more jet traffic at nearby Westchester County airport than we have had recently.  I took a nap on the sofa.  The order from www.ordersmokesdirect.com for 7 cartons of King Mountain Ultra Lights 100s arrived.  I napped until 7 P.M..  I threw out the weekly garbage and the periodical literature.  I picked up my mail.  I chatted with a relative.  The relative received the memoir.  I turned off the Panasonic television in the bedroom, so hopefully the sound on it will continue to run now after having left it run for a while.  One neighbor reported that somebody tried to Jimmy his front door lock with a screw driver, so we have to stay more vigilant here.  CIO   

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 3:30 P.M..  I woke up at 6:30 A.M. this morning, when a friend that was visiting Manhattan called up.  I went back to bed until 10 A.M..  I faxed a newspaper article to a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  The audio on the large Panasonic television in the bedroom has been cutting off and on occasionally for the last two days.  I reset its setup memory, and I set its audio to Auto from Speech, and after a short period the sound started working again.  I am leaving it run for a while, so it might set it permanently in memory and not cause any problems anymore.  The tuner on it still does not work, but it plays just fine through the JVC videotape machine connected to it with RCA cables.  I put four new AA alkaline batteries in the bedroom front door bell, so it now works just fine.  I had put four new ones in on Saturday, but they were from a set of batteries that I bought at CVS a year and half ago, so they were worn out.  I am just enjoying a cool apartment on a hot day outside.

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 3:40 A.M..  I changed the calendars in the apartment to August 2009 yesterday.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 3:05 A.M..  Speaking of broadcasting, there use to be a monument at the North Street and Clapboard Ridge road intersection commemorating the first trans Atlantic broadcast which I think was in the early 1920s, and one of the names on it was Cronkite whom I do not know if it were a relative of Walter Cronkite or not.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 2:30 A.M..  I put two new AA alkaline batteries in the primary Vista computer wireless mouse.

Note: <888> 08/03/09 Monday 2:05 A.M..  I made and ate the same dinner as last night.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/02/09 Sunday 9:45 P.M..  I woke up at 11:30 A.M. this morning.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I went back to bed until 5 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I ate three hot dogs with two buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I chatted with some neighbors, and I did two loads of laundry.  I put away the laundry.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for an evening stroll.  CIO     

End of Scott's Notes week of 08/01/09: 

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 11:35 P.M..  I ate 60% of a 10.7 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.  I watched a program about a plot to kill Hitler.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good night.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 10:00 P.M..  Well, it costs money to go downtown and exercise walk and observe the general pulse of the town around Greenwich, Connecticut.  Of course there are some people whom live downtown, whom might think about keeping an eye on their own neighborhood.  I am perfectly comfortable at home, although I could use the exercise.  Of course the downtown area of any town is programmed on earning money, but they seem to think the other residents of the town do not have any right to earn money, which is not fair to be people whom do not live downtown.  Of course some people live in the remote back country areas of Greenwich, and they manage to make money off New York City or other parts of the world where they do business.  Greenwich Avenue is mostly a women's shopping street except for about a half dozen stores that have items that men might find useful, beside the restaurants and beer pubs.  Thus the local politics on Greenwich Avenue tend to more for women's activities.  There are quite a few people in the overall town and neighboring communities that help keep the community going, while some of the more prosperous back country Greenwich citizens travel around the world doing their own business.  Thus some of the locals have their own viewpoint of downtown versus the weekend tax payers, whom have a more unique point of view.  At my age of 59, I seem to end up downtown, when an older generation is around, and I tend to plan my timing for when it might be less busy during the daytime particularly on sunny week day mornings in pleasant weather.  Of course, we are in the New York City area, so there is always somebody traveling through this area or checking it out besides the regular group of locals that frequently are trying to generate business.  In reality it is only a small fraction of a percentage of the population that can afford the more expensive homes in back country Greenwich, and frequently the working families try to manage their home affairs on weekends, since they do not have time on week days.  My home apartment is running just fine with all of the time that I have been spending home recently, since the Democratic Party Obama recession began.  I quite frankly think part of the recession was caused by the democrats in Chicago, Illinois speculating on oil futures in the commodities markets driving up the price of oil and gasoline last year.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 9:40 P.M..  INVOGE : Dual Geo MS Across the Atlantic

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 9:20 P.M..   I made and ate the same dinner as two and three nights ago.  I watched a Superman movie while making and eating dinner.  I threw out the garbage, and I said hello to some neighbors.  I chatted with a relative.  The relative is watching the TMC movie of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath".  I have been told down in Texas it is so dry down there, it is like the dust bowl in the 1930s, when the land dried out.  I hope the economy is not that bad down there.  They are warmer down there, so they do not have to spend so much money to stay warm in the winter.  My AT&T wireless go phone has $55.05 left on it until September 2, 2009, when I have to spend another $26.50 to charge it up with $25 more time at 25 cents a minute.  CIO

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 6:35 P.M..  The JVC videotape machine in the bedroom although older has hardly ever been used, and it is stereo and has a separate channel tuner.  I disconnected the three RCA video cables from the Orion television that lead to the Panasonic television, and I connected them to the JVC  videotape machine, and now one leaves the Panasonic television on Video 1 and turn it on and off with power button on the Philips remote control set to television, and one can turn on and off the JVC videotape machine with the JVC remote control, and one can watch all of the non cable box channels, and in other words have the option to channel surf on the Panasonic big screen television.  One can still see the Cable Box channels on the Orion television.  On also has the option of having both televisions going too with different channels.  The only draw back is the Orion television is not as sharp for the Cable box channels, but one also saves money by not having both televisions going.  Also the JVC videotape machine will also work on the Panasonic television.  One gets about 70 channels with the direct cable connetion without the cable box.  Since the JVC videotape machine is an older machine using a 3 digit code, one can not program it into the Philips universal remote control that take 4 digit codes, but that does not matter, since the JVC videotape machine has its own remote control.  CIO 

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 5:45 P.M..  The big screen Panasonic television in the bedroom is connected up to the Orion television with RCA video cables to play off the Orion tuner.  However, briefly the Panasonic tuner worked this afternoon, but it quit working.  However, while it was working, I took off the long Philips coaxial cable that ran from the bedroom Gigabyte computer, and I connected it to the four splitter behind the living room couch, and I connected the other end to the JVC videotape machine with the JVC videotape machine connected to the Panasonic television coaxial input.  The Panasonic tuner worked briefly in that setup bypassing the cable box.  However, after a while the Panasonic tuner quit receiving the signal.  I can still get perfect video and sound on the Panasonic televison with the RCA video cables coming out of the Orion television with it turned on, and the Panasonic television set at Video 1.  I will leave it setup with the other alternative input bypassing the cable box in case, the Panasonic tuner starts working again like it did before.  That is probably why the year 2000 $1250 Panasonic television was only $15 in the Greenwich Hospital Thrift Shop.  The Orion television is feeding a stereo signal into the Panasonic television along with the video signal.  My two smaller televisions can not be used for that purpose, since they are not stereo.  Still it is good enough in the present setup.  In the bedroom with the gold coaxial two splitter off the cable box with a free terminal, I connected that with a coaxial cable to the bedroom Gigabyte computer, so its TV card now has a cable box connection.  However, all the cable box connections in the apartment can be switched to direct cable feed with the Radio Shack A/B switch beneath the Sony television in the bedroom, in case one needs to channel surf the available no cable box channels.  The JVC videotape machine does not work on the Panasonic television either, and I do not want to put it on the Orion television, since I want a stronger signal from the cable box.  However, the Panasonic television still has its own videotape and DVD players.  I am not use to hot weather, so there was no purpose in me going out today to see any hot weather people lingering around today.  CIO  

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 2:30 P.M..  I woke up at 10 A.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I fax my July 2009 Microsoft Money 2007 income versus spending report to an interested relative.  The fax machine in the family house in Maine is the Samsung SCS-4521FG all purpose machine that I bought from www.newegg.com down from $279 with a $100 instant rebate for $179 with a $50 mail in rebate for $129 with free shipping about two years ago.  It came with a thousand sheet starter toner cartridge which is still in it, since it is not used too much.  It is now showing low toner, so I emailed another relative to have sent this item SCX-4521 FG toner cartridges, and it is $28.49 for the generic toner cartridge and $5.99 UPS shipping to Maine.  Another relative up there would know how to install it.  One has to turn off the telephone answering machine for the fax to pick up in Maine.  In June 2009, when I was there, it would pick up with the answering machine turned on, so somehow the Samsung all purpose fax and printer and copier machine settings got changed.  I forgot to check it out when I was up there, and get it back to picking up with the telephone answering machine turned on.

I chatted with a relative again.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.

I ordered Rs120 / Rs-120 926 MHz Wireless RF Headphones, Charging Cradle, bstock w/ Warran DAKmart for $29.98 and $12.89 shipping for $42.87 total.  Now I will be able to move around the apartment a bit, when I listen to music.  I have a quite good stereo and music setup, and I have wired headphones, but I move around the apartment in my normal routine quite a bit, so now I can listen to the music and move around.  Also the Rs120 headphones recharge when one puts them back in their cradle.  I am quite comfortable in my well maintained apartment, and it is better than sitting out in the heat downtown on a hot summer day.  There is no point is wasting energy to go downtown to be hot, when I am already using energy at home to be cool.

Note: <888> 08/01/09 Saturday 1:05 A.M..  2009 AGU Fall Meeting

Note: <888> 07/31/09 Friday 11:45 P.M..  I ate two hot dogs with buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I made up a fresh batch of passion punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/31/09 Friday 10:45 P.M..  I went outside, and it has quit raining.  The building custodian is paying a late call.  I picked up my mail, and I said hello to a neighbor.  I put the D-Link powered USB 1.0 hub and Lan connector on the Toshiba laptop, and both the Intel web cam III and the USB night light work just fine on it.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/09 Friday 10:05 P.M.. I put the spare USB 2.0 hub on the Northgate Syntax computer rear USB port, which I think is USB 2.0.  I put the spare USB 1.0 hub on the bedroom Gigabyte computer, but it also has front USB 2.0 ports.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/09 Friday 10:05 P.M..  I put one of the spare USB 2.0 hubs on the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer, and it boots up just fine without having to change USB cables or install device drivers.  Of course to use the external DVD drive, one has to turn it on with the switch on its rear.  The Dell Latitude CS laptop computers do not have built in floppy or CD drives, but I have external plug in ones for them should I need them.  http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm shows the state of my personal computer setup at home.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/31/09 Friday 9:35 P.M..  I put one of the folding tables behind the mahogany tea table to the left of the small computer desk with the Dell Latitude CS laptop on it with the mahogany table facing the dining table.  Thus there is room on the folding table for my various papers and other items I use to leave on the Toshiba laptop on the dining table.  I installed the new Cyber Acoustics speaker system on the Gigabyte bedroom computer removing the old pair of Jensen speakers.  It works just fine, and it has an auxiliary plug cable for an Ipod too.  It turned on and off with the control panel power strip switch.  I put the large bass woofer behind the LCD monitor, and the left speaker in the window and the right speaker on the HP LaserJet printer.  I took off the Intel web cam from the bedroom Gigabyte computer, and I put it on the Toshiba laptop on the dining room table, and I now leave the Toshiba laptop opened ready to use with the Intel web cam held on it with rubber bands.  I also put Microsoft Messenger on it, and the Intel web cam works just fine with it.  I had to remove the USB light and USB hub to get the Intel web cam to work.  I put one of the Logitech QuickCams on the second Dell Latitude CS laptop by the French reproduction chair in the living room.  I installed its drivers and software.  When using it, one should turn off the light behind the chair to get better picture quality.  It works just fine.  I put the second Logitech Quickcam on the bedroom Gigabyte computer, and I installed its software and drivers.  Its software and drivers also work on the Windows 7 partition on the bedroom Gigabyte computer.  I have the Logitech QuickCam deluxe installed on the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop on the small computer desk plugged into the USB hub.  For some reason, when I boot the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer, it does not always recognize the hub, and one has to switch it to the other docking station USB port, but then it recognized the mouse, but one has to reinstall the Logitech QuickCam deluxe drivers again, which is sort of a nusance.  I might try chaging USB hubs, when I have the time.  If another hub works, I might have to get another hub.  The current USB hub on the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer is USB 1.0.  I have two spare USB 2.0 hubs, but they keep the Dell Latitude CS laptop computer from booting properly.  We had a fire alarm go off in the building, and the building custodian reset it.  He also repaired the door closer on the stairway door outside my apartment.  I chatted with two neighbors.  I chatted with a relative in Maine.  The high tide in Kennebunkport, Maine today was flooding over the road along the harbor with all of rain.  I would imagine with a full moon and high tide in October, they could have even worse problems, if they keep getting so much rain.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/09 Friday 12:15 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I watched the Space Shuttle land www.nasa.gov .  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.

The order with tracking of Fedex Tracking for Seagate: FreeAgent™ Outlet Store that I ordered two Seagate 3.5 inch Internal Kit PATA 320GB hard drives for $49.99 each and free shipping on over $50 with promo code "outletfreeship" and $6 tax for $105.98 arrived.  I put them on the shelf behind the Sony television.

Seagate: FreeAgent™ Outlet Store has another sale on, but there is a problem with their web page in Internet Explorer 8 in both Vista and XP.  Only the top three items come up, but the bottom six items do not.  In Ubuntu with the Firefox web browser, the other six items come up.  They still have the same hard drives on sale that I ordered.  I called them up at 1-800-732-4283 to explain the problem.

I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will wash the breakfast dishes and make the bed.  I will then shower and clean up, and I will go out.

I could always order these Rs120 / Rs-120 926 MHz Wireless RF Headphones, Charging Cradle, bstock w/ Warran DAKmart  refurbished for $29.98 and $12.89 shipping, but I would probably not have the time to use them, but they would be handy for wireless music listening.  CIO      

Note: <888> 07/31/09 Friday 10:05 A.M..  I was awake at 7:30 A.M..  I put four new AA alkaline batteries in the blue bells of Scotland door bell in the bedroom.  I paid my www.cablevision.com Digital Cable Television, Optimum Boost Online, and Optimum Voice long distance, my www.cl-p.com electricity, and my www.verizon.com bills.  I ordered from www.ordersmokesdirect.com seven cartons of King Mountain Ultra Lights 100s in a box for $25.49 a carton and $19.46 shipping for $197.89 total.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/31/09 Friday 1:30 A.M..  I will now go to bed.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/31/09 Friday 1:25 A.M..  Best Cities For Singles 2009 - Forbes.com

Philips Consumer Lifestyle NA Online shop Welcome

Note: <888> 07/31/09 Friday 12:15 A.M..  I emailed the author and contact JOHN MILNES BAKER, A.I.A , about the manuscript.  I know http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm use to live a block from Random House which is around the corner from the British consulate in Manhattan.  Fred was in partnership with Taylor Sterling here in Greenwich, Connecticut, so possibly some people whom are not familiar with the area might need some guidance.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/30/09 Thursday 10:40 P.M..  I took a two hour nap.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate the same dinner as last night.  I threw out the garbage.  I left a UPS notice on my neighbors' door.  It is pretty hot outside, so I am sitting by the air conditioner.  I guess summer arrived while I was up in Maine.  High tomorrow of 82 degrees Fahrenheit with scattered thunderstorms.  I am so use to the colder weather around here during the colder months, I never get use to the hot weather in the summer, because by the time one gets use to it, it is gone.

With the coming ice age, if one is around here on a 12 month basis and lives without electric heat like I do, I would strong advise to invest in L.L.Bean: union suit.  Suppose to not shrink in dryer and mostly wool.

Women could order this clearance item JCPenney : Thermal Union Suit

Boys could order Clearance Morgan Thermals Boy's Long Handles Thermal Union Suit - AmazingSocks.com

Military could order Blue and White Thermal Jumper - Uncle Sams Army Navy Outfitters

Note: <888> 07/30/09 Thursday 5:00 P.M..  I woke up last night, and I ate about 70% of a 10.7 ounce can of CVS smoked almonds.  I finally woke up at 9 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with relatives and friends this morning.  I tried to install the Audi service manual on the Epox computer Windows XP partition.  The installation CD is a CD, but the Data CD is a DVD.  When I tried to copy the data DVD before installation, it would not read to copy.  When I tried to install it on the Epox computer, the Data DVD gave errors on the first part of the data installation.  On closer inspection the first 1/8th of an inch of the data DVD is not burned.  It did installed the rest of the information, so most of the information is on the Epox computer.  I emailed the vendor to send another data DVD.  This all took a bit of time.  However, on a hot day, I am more comfortable at home.  Fedex is suppose to delivered the package with the Seagate drives tomorrow.  They had marked the box for a later delivery date, so that explains the holdup on delivery.  It is suppose to rain tomorrow, so I probably will not be going out either, but after the long cold winter and the rainy spring and summer, I am use to being a weather prisoner inside.  One does tend to get a bit of cabin fever being inside all of the time.  I guess it is like living in England, where it is cold and damp all of the time.  I at the other 30% of the can of almonds.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/29/09 Wednesday 11:25 P.M..  I ate the last 1/4th of a piece of Shaws apple pie that I brought down from Kennebunkport, Maine along with some watered down passion punch.  Scattered thunderstorms tomorrow with a high of 85 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  There is a $5 off $30 purchase in store in the Staples circular, and I have the $19.80 Staples Rewards, so technically I could buy something from Staples in store for $30 and get $24.80 off, but there is nothing that I see in their circular that I need at the moment, plus it would cost gasoline to drive all of the way over there.  The Staples Rewards are good for a while and do not seem to expire, and the $5 discount offer on a $30 purchase would be the cost of gasoline to go over there.  Plus I do not know if one can combine both offers.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/29/09 Wednesday 10:10 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.

Note: <888> 07/29/09 Wednesday 8:15 P.M..  I went out, and I bought $10.35 of Priority Mail postage to mail the manuscript at the Valley Road Post Office.  I put it in the large mail box there to mail it.  I returned home, and I chatted with two neighbors about the history of the Scott family in America, which I do not think they were terribly interested in.  From all of my research in old libraries up and down the East Coast of the United States of America, they appeared to go back and forth to England regularly over 400 years, so they must have had something to do with British business.  They are suppose to be a Scotch Irish family which means they are Scottish that were send to Northern Ireland to defend the British, but for all I know they were rum runners or pirates.  I never studied European history, so all I know is bits and pieces that I saw on television over the years.  I do know my grandfather Clarence Scott's grandfather was from Illinois too, and his son my grandfather's father was named James Scott.  Some how my Illinois branch of the Scott family are suppose to be related to Winfield Scott from Virginia.  From what I can tell the founding families of Virginia gave their properties to the oldest sons, and the younger sons were part of the westward migration.  I once was told, we were kicked out of or fled England for being horse thieves.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/29/09 Wednesday 6:50 P.M..  I printed out two copies of the 162 page memoir.  I put them each in a Staples clamp binder.  I left one copy on the Dell laptop computer by the French reproduction chair in the living room.  I will now go out and mail the other copy to an interested relative.  It is suppose to cost $9.85 to mail priority mail.  I chatted with two relatives.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/29/09 Wednesday 1:50 P.M..  I woke up at 7 A.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a 50% to 50% mixture of passion punch and cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and milk.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I threw out the garbage.  I went downtown, and I went by the Chase Bank just west of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue.  I then went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 12 packs of Thomas' English muffins for $1.99 each 12 pack for $3.98 total.  I noticed the new building construction just south of Pickwick Plaza has the exterior scaffolding down, so one can now see what the building looks like.  It looks like they plan to have a large office or store in there.  After my walk, I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center.  It was not very busy downtown, because it looked like it might rain.  The Merry Go Round Mews thrift shop is closed during July and August, so their staff is not there.  I went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two 8 ounce tubs of Smart Balance spread for $2.99, a half gallon of Tropicana premium orange juice with calcium  for $3, a 12 ounce bottle of Stop and Shop generic honey for $2.49, two 48 ounce containers of Quaker old fashioned oatmeal for $4.99 each, three 64 ounce containers of Stop and Shop cranberry grape juice for $2.50 each, two 64 ounce containers of Stop and Shop cranberry raspberry juice for $2.50 each, a 64 ounce container of Stop and Shop cranberry blueberry juice for $2.50 each, a 16 ounce package of Stop and Shop hickory smoked bacon for $1.99, a two London Broil package for $1.79 a pound for $6.41 less a $1.50 off manager's special coupon for $4.91, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, fresh broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $2.03, Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.66, and a bulb of garlic for $2.99 a pound for .39 for $50.42 total.  I returned back to my apartment.  The Audi was not making any noise from the driver's lower front end while I was driving today, and the best I can figure out is that it was some of my luggage in the trunk that was making noise yesterday.  I use my small folding cart to bring up the groceries.  I put away the groceries.

The order with tracking of Fedex Tracking for Seagate: FreeAgent™ Outlet Store that I ordered two Seagate 3.5 inch Internal Kit PATA 320GB hard drives for $49.99 each and free shipping on over $50 with promo code "outletfreeship" and $6 tax for $105.98 is scheduled for delivery tomorrow.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/28/09: 

Note: <888> 07/28/09 Tuesday 10:35 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  The building custodian has to install a new part to go with the sink repair he made last year, so some time in the near future he will have to do that.  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon. High tomorrow of 80 degrees Fahrenheit with later afternoon thunderstorms.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/28/09 Tuesday 9:55 P.M..  Deal Imminent For Microsoft and Yahoo! - Forbes.com  CIO

Note: <888> 07/28/09 Tuesday 8:55 P.M..  New Greenwich police building moving right along - Greenwich Time  CIO

Note: <888> 07/28/09 Tuesday 8:45 P.M..  I went outside, and I left the mail tray by the mail room.  I inspected the underneath driver's side front of the Audi, and from what I can see, there are all new parts that were put in right before I got the car about 5,000 miles ago.  Driving it around the parking lot, it does not make any noise.  I will have to check it out, when I have time to drive it more.  I was told by a neighbor that one of our neighbors whom had been ill had passed away.  I chatted with a relative twice.  I made a three egg omelet with sliced ham and processed slices of cheese and grated and parmesan and Romano cheese and five strips of fried bacon and a toasted English muffin with Smart Balance and watered down passion punch.  CIO    

Note: <888> 07/28/09 Tuesday 6:10 P.M..  After the note last night, I packed my belongings.  Earlier I had put the garbage and recycle container out by the street.  I chatted with a relative for a while.  I went to bed at 10 P.M..  I was awake at 6 P.M. this morning.  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and half and half.  I brought in the New York Times.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I stripped the bed, and I put the linens in the washing machine along with the towel.  I emptied the dehumidifiers.  I finished packing the car.  Last night I had made a ham, turkey, and cheese sandwich to take with me.  I cleaned out the garage ash tray.  I said my goodbyes to a relative.  I left the house at 7:45 A.M..    I drove out of Kennebunkport west on Route 9 and then west on U.S. 1 taking the right turn in Wells, Maine for the Maine Turnpike.  I took a pit stop at the Amtrak train station in Wells, Maine across from the Maine turnpike entrance.  I headed south on the Maine Turnpike.  I paid a $2 toll. I head south on the New Hampshire turnpike, and I paid a $2 toll.  I took a pit stop at the Massachusetts welcome center. I got on I-495 West.  I took another pit stop at the Lowell rest area. I got on I-290 West, and at the end of I-290 West, I got on the Massachusetts turnpike west.  I stopped at the Charlton rest area. I ate half of the sandwich.  I chatted with a relative in Maine to let them know, I was half way back home.  I got $15.30 of self service premium at the Gulf station there for $2.799 a gallon for 5.467 gallons at odometer reading of 63941 miles and 141.4 miles since the fill up two days before less 12.1 miles from Kennebunkport, Maine for 25.864 miles per gallons driving.  I then got off the Massachusetts turnpike at the I-84 west exit paying a 50 cent toll.  I took I-84 West.  About five miles into Connecticut, I saw a large dead timber wolf on the left side of the highway going west.  I stopped at the Connecticut welcome center.  I took I-91 South to I-15 West or the Wilbur Cross Parkway.  I stopped at the North Haven rest area.  I stopped at the New Canaan rest area.  I got off at North Street South in Greenwich, Connecticut.  At St. Michael's Church, I had to take a detour west on Clapboard Ridge Road to south on Brookside Drive and down Husted Lane south to North Maple South, and I turned right at North street, and I took my second left into William Street going by the road where the old Round Hill Dairy use to be.  I went by the Greenwich Hospital Rotary, and I head south down Lafayette Place to the Putnam Avenue, and I stopped in at the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue.  I arrived there at 2 P.M..  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf station, and I got $15 of self service premium at $3.099 a gallon for 4.841 gallons at odometer reading of 64071 miles for 130.3 miles since the previous fill up for 26.916 miles per gallon driving.  I cleaned the outside windows on the Audi.  I then went by the Valley Road Post Office, and I picked up my mail.  I then returned home.  I brought up my luggage with my folding cart.  I ate the other half of the sandwich with watered down passion punch.  I unpacked.  I turned on the various electronics.  Everything seems just fine.  I chatted with a friend briefly to let him know I was back.  I sorted out my mail.  I got a $10 survey check.  I also got the Audi Service Manual on CD that I paid $13.48 for.  It only works with Windows XP not Vista.  I watered the plants.  I installed the updates on the primary Vista computer and the FIC server.  The Audi when I was driving downtown in Greenwich, I notice a slight thumbing sound from the front left or driver's side, so I will have to look into it, once I have time.  There was no noise or problem, when on the highway.  I watered the plants.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/28/09 Tuesday 5:10 P.M..  I was back in Greenwich, Connecticut at 2 P.M. this afternoon.  More to come shortly.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/27/09 Monday 8:05 P.M.. I rested until 6 P.M.. We ate dip and crackers, and I had watered down orange juice, which we watched the evening news. I put out the garbage and the recycle container to be picked up tomorrow. I ate dinner of barbecued steak tid bits, corn on the cob, baked beans, steamed broccoli, a half of a blue berry muffin and watered down orange juice. I will now shut down the computer. I will pack, and I will go to bed around 10 P.M., and I will be up around 7 A.M. To leave around 9 A.M. In the morning. I should be back in Greenwich, Connecticut around 3 P.M.. CIO

Note: <888> 07/27/09 Monday 3:40 P.M.. We went out after the last note, and we went by the Kennebunkport post office. We then went by the Stop and Shop in Kennebunk. We then went by the Irvine gasoline station near the Stop and Shop just west of it. I filled up my relative's tank. We got the car washed too. With an 8 gallon purchase, you get $2 off the Express car wash for $5 total. We could not checked the tire pressure because the fuel delivery truck was in the way. We then returned back to my relatives' house. I cleaned the door sills off in the car and the dashboard. I watered the hanging plants in front and the three potted plants beneath them on the front porch. While at the Stop and Shop, we bought a 2 pack of 2X extra life 2,000 hour 40 watt appliance bulbs for $3.99 both. I tried replacing the freezer light bulb in the kitchen, but it was frozen in. I pulled out the refrigerator, and I unplugged its electricity. I removed the top freezer shelf, and I filled a small pot with hot water, and I held it up against the frozen freezer bulb and socket for a short period. The bulb then screwed out easily. I dried off the fixture and put the new bulb in and the fixture cover over it. I plugged in the electricity on the refrigerator, and the new bulb worked just fine. I pushed the KitchenAid refrigerator freeze back into position. I will now take a nap. CIO

Note: <888> 07/27/09 Monday 1:10 P.M.. The lawn person and the housekeeper left. He is going to cut the grass tomorrow. He cleaned the gutters. Sometime in the future another relative needs to climb up into the attic to check the upstairs dryer venting to make sure a rodent has not chewed into it. For lunch I ate two barbecued hot dogs with buns and ketchup and mustard and chopped onion, along with potato chips and reheated baked beans and a glass of watered down Nestea. CIO

Note: <888> 07/27/09 Monday 11:45 A.M.. The needlepoint slippers arrived for a relative. I am charging up the AT&T wireless GoPhone, since I let it charge down. I will not take it with me today, when we do errands, so it can be charged up, when I travel tomorrow. CIO

Note: <888> 07/27/09 Monday 10:55 A.M.. http://coshopcn.com/ CIO

Note: <888> 07/27/09 Monday 10:05 A.M.. All clear for now http://geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm . CIO

Note: <888> 07/27/09 Monday 10:00 A.M.. The yard man and the housekeeper are here. The yard man can not cut the grass, because it is too wet, so he is using an extension ladder he brought to clean out the gutters. CIO

Note: <888> 07/27/09 Monday 9:35 A.M.. I woke up at 8 A.M.. I brought in the New York Times. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and half and half. I filled up the small red bird feeder with bird seed. It seems to be more popular with the birds than the larger green bird feeder. I showered, and I cleaned up. I emptied the two dehumidifiers downstairs. CIO

Note: <888> 07/26/09 Sunday 10:10 P.M.. I slept until 5:30 P.M.. We watched some television and ate cheese and crackers and watered down orange juice. The electricity blinked on and off briefly. I had to reset the stove clocks and the cable box. For dinner, we ate baked haddock and corn on the cob with watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. We watched the movie “High Noon” on TMC. I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon. Have a good night. Some rain tomorrow. CIO

Note: <888> 07/26/09 Sunday 4:10 P.M.. I went out after the last note with a relative. We went by the Stop and Shop in Kennebunk. We then went by the Irvine gasoline station, an my relative bought me $20 of self service premium gasoline for 7.303 for $2.73.9 a gallon for 295.9 miles driving since I left Greenwich, Connecticut a week ago and 169.7 miles since I filled up on the Massachusetts turnpike driving up a week ago at odometer reading of 63799 miles for 23.237 miles per gallon driving. I paid 75 cents to check the air in my tires for 32 PSI all around. We then went by the CVS in Kennebunk. Thomas' English muffins are $1.99 a 12 pack there this week. We next drove along the Kennebunk beach, and stood out briefly at the south end to view the surfers. We then drove along the Kennebunkport waterfront about a mile east past Walker's Point, and then we returned to my relatives' house. I brought in the purchases. I started the dry cycle on the laundry. I will now take a nap. CIO

Note: <888> 07/26/09 Sunday 1:35 P.M.. I read part of the Sunday New York Times. I ate ham, turkey, and cheese sandwich with potato chips and a piece of apple pie and watered down orange juice. I started a load of laundry. The guest bed in the downstairs guest bedroom was stripped. I am now going out with a relative to get some gasoline and go for a drive. CIO

Note: <888> 07/26/09 Sunday 11:55 A.M.. I fertilized the Azalea on the north side of the driveway with Holly Tone fertilizer. I changed the five CDs on the CD player to other CDs, and I set the unit to play the CDs continuously when turned on. CIO

Note: <888> 07/26/09 Sunday 10:25 A.M.. Somebody was flying over the beach yesterday in old orange biplane, so I guess besides old cars up here, they have old planes. Our house guest called after she left this morning, and she was stopped by the Kennebunkport police for driving over 25 miles per hour in the Upper Village. When I drove up here last Sunday from Greenwich, Connecticut, there was a State trooper at every rest area with a radar gun. I clipped my fingernails and toe nails, so I do not look like Howard Hughes. I was told by a relative that www.eharmony.com has a summer house here now. My relative did not go to church this morning, because there was light rain and fog at the morning service at St. Ann's. I am waiting for better weather, before I might go out for a walk. My relative is going to fill up my gasoline tank later on this afternoon, so I will have a full tank in the Audi, when I drive down this Tuesday morning. The wireless internet from Time Warner was slow yesterday morning, so I guess a lot of people up here were using the service. My relative is reading the Sunday New York Times. CIO

Note: <888> 07/26/09 Sunday 9:15 A.M.. I woke up at 7:15 A.M.. I helped the house guest leave, and the house guest left about 8 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and half and half. I brought in the Sunday New York Times. I emptied the two dehumidifiers downstairs. I made my bed. I will now shower and clean up. CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/09 Saturday 10:00 P.M.. I watched television for a while. I will now go to bed. CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/09 Saturday 8:20 P.M.. I took a nap after the last note until 5 P.M.. I then drove along the Kennebunk beach, and I sat out at the south end of the beach enjoying the view. There were some young people playing boccie ball on the beach, and quite a few people were out there enjoying the day. I then drove along the Kennebunkport waterfront as far as the Cape Arundel Inn, and I returned back to my relatives' house. For dinner we ate barbecued rib eye steaks, steamed corn on the cob with butter, and sliced tomatoes from Holland with some sort of gourmet cheese, a slice of apple pie, and a glass of watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. There might be rain in the morning and showers in the late afternoon with a high of 77 degrees Fahrenheit. The house guest is leaving at 9 A.M. To travel further north. CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/09 Saturday 3:45 P.M.. One relative called to say, they would not be coming up this weekend. I am waiting for another relative to get back from the grocery store. I used the leaf blower, and I cleaned off the garage and driveway and deck. The renters in the front house have arrived for their stay. CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/09 Saturday 2:55 P.M.. http://www.armynavydeals.com/asp/

I ate lunch with a relative and the house guest. We ate on the deck, and I ate a ham and cheese sandwich with potato chips and a piece of apple pie and Nestea sugar free ice tea. I helped the house guest with some computer work. I will be going out in a little while, when a relative returns from grocery shopping. CIO

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Note: <888> 07/25/09 Saturday 11:40 A.M.. I chatted with a relative and the house guest. I went for a walk south from the Lower Village by the Colony Hotel, and I sat out for a while on one of the benches looking south over the Kennebunkport and Kennebunk shoreline on Parsons way. I chatted with a relative on the wireless phone. There is a cell phone tower about a mile north of Kennebunk beach that one can see on the horizon. I walked further south to St. Ann's Church, and I toured the grounds. I walked back to the bench on Parsons Way, and I sat out for a while enjoying the view. I left some wireless messages with friends. I will probably be driving back down to Greenwich, Connecticut on this coming Tuesday morning, when the weather is suppose to be sunny. I walked back down to the breakwater by the Colony Hotel Beach, and I noticed most of the parking spots are filled up. I returned back to my relatives' house, and we still do not know whether another relative will be showing up or not. It is a very nice day out with lots of people at the beach and about walking and enjoying one of the few nice days we have been getting recently. CIO

Note: <888> 07/25/09 Saturday 9:40 A.M.. I woke up at 7 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and half and half. I helped get breakfast for the house guest too. I showered, and I cleaned up.

Sign of the times in Greenwich, Connecticut http://greenwich-gossip.blogspot.com/ .

I will now go out for a walk.

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Note: <888> 07/24/09 Friday 9:50 P.M.. I read the Greenwich magazine and part of today's New York Times. I am a bit tired, and I will now go to bed soon. Another relative might be showing up tomorrow. CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/09 Friday 8:25 P.M.. I took a nap from 3:30 to 5:30 P.M.. We watched the evening news and ate cheese and crackers, and I also drank watered down orange juice. For dinner, we ate barbecued hot dogs and buns with ketchup and mustard and baked beans, and I drank some watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/09 Friday 3:05 P.M.. I went out after the last note. I went by the Kennebunkport post office. When I returned, the house guest had just arrived. I chatted with the house guest for a while. I brought in the house guest's luggage. The house guest is resting. We are waiting for a relative to arrive. I am running a 1/6^th mixture of white vinegar and 5/6^th mixture of water through the Braun coffee machine to clean it out. I will then run some water through it. CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/09 Friday 12:30 P.M.. I put away the laundry. The appliance man was here to fix the Kitchen Aid refrigerator ice machine. It works fine now. He put in a new part. The housekeeper has left. I will now eat a ham and cheese sandwich and go out for an errand. CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/09 Friday 10:35 A.M.. Microsoft Annual Earnings Down

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Note: <888> 07/24/09 Friday 10:05 A.M.. I started a load of laundry. Another relative is suppose to show up for the weekend tonight or tomorrow. It is suppose to rain in Kennebunkport, Maine until 3 P.M. This afternoon with a chance of showers the next three days. With all the rain and colder weather this summer and with higher prices of fuel, we might have to endure a colder winter, so order yours now L.L. Bean Union Union Suits . I heard on www.foxnews.com this morning the minimum wage in Canada is going to $10.15 an hour, but the Canadian dollar is about 9% weaker compared to the U.S. Dollar, so that would be like a $9.25 U.S. Minimum wage in Canada. Of course in Canada, if one were working in Walmart for $74 a day U.S. for an eight hour day, one might have a better lifestyle, since the prices are suppose to be cheaper in Canada. CIO

Note: <888> 07/24/09 Friday 9:35 A.M.. I woke up at 7 A.M.. I emptied the dehumidifiers, and I brought in the New York Times. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and half and half. I emptied the dishwasher. I showered, and I cleaned up. The housekeeper is here. It has been raining cats and dogs all night, and it is suppose to rain until 6 P.M. This evening. We are suppose to have a house guest arrive late this afternoon. I hope with all of the rain the new grass seed underneath the deck does not wash out. I figure Microsoft makes a lot of money because it rains in Seattle, Washington 250 days a year, so maybe with all of rain in New England recently, IBM and other high tech companies will start making more money. I guess with all of the rain this summer, the publishing industry is doing better. CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/09 Thursday 10:40 P.M.. I ate a piece of apple pie for desert. I read today's New York Times, and I chatted with a relative. It has started to rain, and it is suppose to continue to rain until 6 P.M. Tomorrow evening. I will now shut down the Dell Latitude CS laptop computer, and I will go to bed soon. Have a good evening. CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/09 Thursday 8:40 P.M.. I got up from my nap at 5 P.M.. We watched the www.cbsnews.com with Walter Cronkite's funeral. We ate dip and crackers, and I also had a glass of watered down orange juice. For dinner, I ate a microwaved frozen pasta dinner with sauce, corn on the cob and a tossed green salad and a glass of sugar free Nestea. CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/09 Thursday 3:25 P.M.. I went out after the last note. I stopped by the Kennebunkport post office. I then drove along the Kennebunk beach. Since it was an overcast day at high tide, not many people were there, so I sat out for a while and enjoyed watching a half dozen surfers at the south end of the beach. Normally in the summer, one needs a local parking permit to park at the beach. I then looked for a free parking space downtown, but I could not find one. It is busy downtown with early weekend people. I then drove along the Kennebunkport waterfront as far as the Cape Arundel Inn, and I returned back to my relatives' house. I checked out the grass seed, and it seems to be doing fine. I chatted with a relative on my wireless telephone. I will now take a nap. CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/09 Thursday 1:25 P.M.. I ate 65% of a 14 ounce Dijorno flat bread Tuscan chicken pizza along with the remaining baked haddock and watered down orange juice. CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/09 Thursday 12:35 P.M.. One of my relatives explained to me, they use to be allowed to take smooth rocks from the beach to decorate gardens, so more than likely the smooth beach rocks were brought up to the house at one time to decorate an older garden. I dumped the rocks that I removed in the bushes to the rear of the house to the left of the new steps.

Lowes GE .7 cubic foot microwave oven $29 CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/09 Thursday 11:40 A.M.. I took a walk after the last note. I walked south through the Lower Village, and I walked further south by the Colony Hotel and further south out to St. Ann's Church. There were quite a few people enjoying the view of the ocean from St. Ann's along with a lot of walkers. When I was raking the rocks out of the lower deck area last evening which is about 50 feet above the current ocean tide line, I found the same sea washed smooth round rocks that one finds down by the beach which would imply that at one time the tide line was 50 higher in Kennebunkport than it is today, in which case the newer lower level properties were once under water. I then walked back north by the Colony Hotel beach, and there were quite a few younger families enjoying the beach there along with a few fishermen. I then returned back to my relatives' house. I went ahead and filled up the older large green wire and Plexiglas bird feeder, and I hung it from the same tree limb as the new smaller red bird feeder. From the computer desk in the bunk room, I have a view of the Kennebunk harbor, and there does not seem to be much nautical traffic on it. It is suppose to rain about 10 P.M. This evening, so I will not water the new Scotts www.scotts.com grass seed this evening. One does not want it to get too wet. CIO

Note: <888> 07/23/09 Thursday 9:45 A.M.. I woke up at 7 A.M.. I emptied the two humidifiers downstairs. I brought in the New York Times. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a blue berry muffin, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and half and half. I spread Hollytone fertilizer around the plants in front of the kitchen window. I think the new grass seed should be watered in the evening. I will now shower and clean up and go out for a walk. CIO

Note: <888> 07/22/09 Wednesday 9:50 P.M.. We watched the evening news, and ate some cheese and crackers with watered down orange juice. For dinner, I had baked season haddock, corn on the cob and steamed broccoli crowns and watered down orange juice. We watched some television, and I read part of today's New York Times. I will now shut down the Dell Latitude CS laptop computer, and I will go to bed soon. Have a good night. CIO

Note: <888> 07/22/09 Wednesday 6:35 P.M.. After the last note, we went out, and we went over to T.J. Maxx in Biddeford, Maine. My relative among other things got a barbecue scouring brush for $8. I toured Best Buy next door. We then went to Lowes, and we got an inexpensive bird feeder that hopefully the chipmunks can not gain access to for $6. We got a 7 pound bag of Scott's shade grass seed for $27. We also got two small evergreens about a foot high for half price. We also got a 10 pound bag of bird seed for $4.59. We then went by Shaws and got some groceries. We then went by the Kennebunkport post office. We then returned to my relatives' house, and brought in our purchases. The landscapers had finished removing the overgrown bushes underneath the deck, and they also removed the tree limbs that had been cut from the north side of the garage. I ate a ham and cheese sandwich with ¼ of a 6.2 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of watered down orange juice. I raked the rocks and other large clumps out of the area the landscapers had cleared underneath the deck, and I dumped the rocks and other clumps down the side of the back hill. I raked it smooth. I planted the two small evergreens five feet in from each side and 2.5 feet away from the cement underneath the deck. I planted the Scotts shade grass seed on the prepared dirt using about 65% of it using a Scotts hand spreader, and the rest of it I used for areas that the landscaping equipment had disturbed and along the new concrete steps leading down to the lower level of the property. I watered the two bushes and grass seed. I took down the old bird feeder, and I put it in the back of the garage, and I filled the new bird feeder, and I hung it in the same location in the front of the house from the flowering plum tree. I hung the new barbecue scouring pad with handle from the gas barbecue. No time for a nap. I showered, and I cleaned up. CIO

Note: <888> 07/22/09 Wednesday 11:30 A.M.. The landscapers are here to remove the bushes below the deck. I am going out with a relative for a couple of hours.

Newcastle DraughtKegAdd this $22.99 mini keg to your list of goodies for this weekend's get-together.

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Note: <888> 07/22/09 Wednesday 10:35 A.M.. I walked downtown to Dock Square along the harbor. I checked the Colony pharmacy to see if they carry TV guide, but they do not. It was not too busy downtown, and people at the Nonantum hotel along the way were just having breakfast. There are a few properties for sale and for rent along the harbor. They have new public rest rooms on the north side of Dock Square as one drives into the three dollars an hour public parking area on the north side of Dock Square. Usually one can park on the street by the post office for an hour for free. There are numerous gift shops and other boutiques. http://www.cronkiterealty.com/cr/Home.html is on the south side of Dock Square. Also http://www.packmaynardrealestate.com/ has a lot of their signs out. I find it convenient to have a bathroom when out walking. The Dock Square coffee shop was not busy. I walked back to my relatives' house. It is not suppose to rain until this Friday. I put the laundry in the drier. CIO

Note: <888> 07/22/09 Wednesday 8:55 A.M.. I was awake at 6:45 A.M. This morning. I brought in the New York Times. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with butter, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and half and half. I brought in some flowers for a relative. I showered, and I cleaned up. I started a load of laundry. I will now go out for a morning walk. CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/09 Tuesday 9:25 P.M.. I watched some more television. I am a bit tired, so I will now go to bed. Have a good night. CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/09 Tuesday 8:35 P.M.. We went out after the last note. We went by the Kennebunkport post office. We then drove along the Kennebunk beach and returned back to my relatives' house. I took a nap from 2:30 P.M. To 6 P.M.. We ate some triscuts with chutney, and I had some watered down orange juice. We watched the evening news. We had dinner of stuffed pasta with tomato sauce and steamed broccoli and garlic bread and watered down orange juice. I cleaned up the kitchen. We watched a bit of television. CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/09 Tuesday 1:10 P.M.. I read today's New York Times. I ate reheated barbecue steak tidbits for lunch with a mixed salad and watered down orange juice. The ice maker in the refrigerator is not working properly. I pulled out the refrigerator, and I turned off the water to it downstairs in the basement, and I disconnected the copper pipe to it at either end, and it seems to be getting water. However, this winter when the heat was turned off in the house, the small pump that supplies the water to the ice maker might have frozen, so it is probably not working properly. We will have to call a service person. We will now go out for errands. I reconnected the copper pipe, but left the refrigerator pullled out. CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/09 Tuesday 11:20 A.M.. From this web site Needlepoint Loafers, I order for a relative ** SALE** X03373 Lobster on Beige Needlepoint Loafer in size 9.5 for $88 plus $5 UPS shipping for $93 total. I let the relative look at the various designs by undocking the Dell Latitude CS laptop computer from the downstairs bunk room and bringing it up to the kitchen with the wireless through out the house. CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/09 Tuesday 9:30 A.M.. I went for an hour walk before it might rain. I walked east through the lower village past St. Ann's church. Across from St. Ann's church, there is large new white house with a large colorful glass sculpture of an abacus. I walked as far east along the shoreline as far at the two Kenny family benches that face out across the ocean with a view of Mount Agamemnon. I sat there for a brief spell to have a cigarette. The Bush family boat the Fidelity appeared out of Walker's Point with a lone driver, and it headed into Kennebunkport harbor, I guess to get some gasoline. I walked back west, and I chatted with a relative on my wireless opposite St. Ann's. I then walked out by the road by the Colony Beach and the Breakwater. I then returned back to my relatives' house. There were quite a few people out walking and jogging and dog walking this morning. It is just beginning to look like it might rain. The landscapers have not shown up to remove the bushes underneath the deck, so I guess the weather changed their plans.

One has to watch themselves around train stations Greenwich man remains in critical condition after being hit by train. CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/09 Tuesday 7:30 A.M.. I watered the hanging plants in front of the house that do not get the rain. I brought in the www.nytimes.com . I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a blue berry muffin, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with splenda and half and half. I will now shower and clean up. It is suppose to start raining about 9 A.M. Today. The landscapers are also suppose to be here this morning to remove the bushes below the deck. CIO

Note: <888> 07/21/09 Tuesday 6:00 A.M.. I was awake at 5:30 A.M.. I emptied the dishwasher, and I emptied the two dehumidifiers in the basement. Now it is time to see if anything new happened in the world over night. CIO 

Note: <888> 07/20/09 Monday 11:20 P.M.. We watched a Turner movie channel program on the NASA Apollo program. I looked at the recent issue of Vanity Fair. We watched part of the www.foxnews.com interview with Hillary Clinton from India.

I went through http://geocities.com/mikelscott/bf.htm .

Don't forget http://geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .

Not much seems to be happening at www.greenwichtime.com , maybe everyone is away. I saw a few Connecticut cars in Kennebunkport today. It is not too busy here on week days.

http://greenwich-gossip.blogspot.com/ still thinks I need to quit smoking cigarettes. Maybe he should read the recent Vanity Fair article about the www.harvard.edu endowment, and how hard up the school has become.

More rain tomorrow. It was nice having a normal sunny summer day today. CIO

 Note: <888> 07/20/09 Monday 9:15 P.M.. After the last note, we went by the Kennebunk hardware store, and we got a motion sensor night light for one of the bedroom baths. We drove along the Kennebunk beach. We stopped by the Kennebunkport post office. We then returned to my relatives' house, and I took a nap from 2 P.M. To 6 P.M.. We watched the evening news, and ate some cheese and crackers with watered down orange juice. For dinner, we ate barbecue sirloin tidbits, corn on the cob, mixed salad, and watered down orange juice. We took a drive along the waterfront to Cape Porpoise. I then cleaned up the kitchen. We need to get a barbecue grill scouring brush, since the old one disappeared. CIO

Note: <888> 07/20/09 Monday 11:55 A.M.. I read the Sunday New York Times. I went for a walk down by the Lower Village and the Colony Hotel Beach and the Kennebunkport breakwater. There are some sunbathers and fishermen down by the breakwater. I walked back to my relatives' house. I read today's www.nytimes.com . It is a nice sunny day today with a high expected of 79 degrees Fahrenheit. There are a few showers expected tomorrow morning. I will be having chowder and ham and cheese sandwich for lunch with watered down orange juice. I am beginning to feel like it is summer after all of the rain I have seen earlier this summer. CIO

 Note: <888> 07/20/09 Monday 8:45 A.M.. I ate breakfast of oatmeal with honey and milk and a sliced banana, a blue berry muffin, orange juice with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with spenda and half and half. I move the pile of limbs and brush on the north side of the rear steps to down below in the brush pile. The pile of limbs and brush on the north side of the house are going to be cut in kindling by the yard person at a later time. I cut some flowers in the flower box. I brought in the New York Times. It is a long way from the top of the stairs to the brush pile down below, so I am a bit worn out. The tree people are coming tomorrow to remove the bushes below the deck, so it is not so damp on the lower level. I will now shower and clean up. CIO

Note: <888> 07/20/09 Monday 6:30 A.M.. I was awake at 6 A.M..

Walter Cronkite New York Times CIO

 Note: <888> 07/19/09 Sunday 11:10 P.M.. I read three backs issues of www.time.com . I will now shut down the Dell Latitude CS laptop computer, and I will go to bed. CIO  

Note: <888> 07/19/09 Sunday 9:00 P.M.. I took a nap from 4 P.M. To 6:15 P.M.. We watched the evening news. We then watched the www.cbsnews.com memorial to Walter Cronkite. For dinner I had baked sword fish, corn on the cob and steamed brocolli and apple pie. I cleaned up the kitchen. I walked down the 22 new concrete steps in back. They are quite easy to navigate. Some grass seed around them has been planted, and I will probably plant some more. I have to move some tree trimmings down to the lower level. CIO

Note: <888> 07/19/09 Sunday 4:05 P.M.. I woke up at 4 A.M. This morning. I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and milk, a glass of watered down passion punch with vitamins and supplements, a cup of coffee with splenda and milk, and a piece of apple pie. I showered, and I cleaned up. I put together the last of my luggage. I loaded the car the night before. I turned off the items in the apartment. I left at 6 A.M.. I said good morning to some neighbors. I stopped by the Greenwich Automotive Service Gulf Station, and I put $6 of self service premium gasoline in the Audi at $3.099 a gallon for 1.937 gallons for 26.6 miles driving since last Sunday a week ago at odometer reading of 63503 miles for 13.733 miles per, gallons driving in the last week. I cleaned the outside windows. I checked the tires for 32 PSI. I drove east on Putnam Avenue to North Maple and up North Street to the Merritt Parkway east. I took a pit stop at the New Canaan and the Orange rest areas. I took I-91 North, and I took another pit stop at the rest area. There is a rather large geological formation on the east side of that rest area. I took I-84 East, and I took another pit stop at the Vernon rest area. I got on the Massachusetts turnpike East, and I took another pit stop at the rest area. I ate half of a ham and cheese sandwich. I put $11.02 at the Gulf station there at $2.839 a gallon for 3.880 gallons for 126.2 miles driving from the Gulf station in Greenwich at odometer reading of 63629 miles for 32.526 miles per gallon driving on the highway. I paid a 50 cent toll to get off at I-290 East, and I followed it to I-495 east, and I took another pit stop at the Lowell rest area. On the west side of Lowell, the old Digital Equipment building is now an IBM building. They have a new cell phone tower at the Lowell rest area, since I was there a month ago. I then drove to I-95 North. I paid a $2 toll at the New Hampshire turnpike and another $2 toll at the Maine turnpike. I got off at the Wells exit, and I took a pit stop at the Amtrak station. I then drove to my relatives' house in Kennebunkport, Maine. I arrived about 12:15 P.M.. I said hello to my relative. I ate the other half of the ham and cheese sandwich with watered down orange juice. I unpacked the car. I chatted with another relative. I went out with a relative, and we went by the Kennebunkport post office and then drove along the Kennebunk beach. We then went to the Stop and Shop in Kennebunk for some groceries, and then we returned to the house. I unloaded the groceries. The new steps in the back of the house look quite nice. It is a nice sunny day, and lots of people are at the beach. I will now take a nap. CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/09 Saturday 9:55 P.M..  Sunny and cloudy between here and Kennebunkport, Maine tomorrow with a high of 80 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer and the FIC server, and I will go to bed shortly.  I will try to be up in the early morning and leave early.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/18/09 Saturday 9:45 P.M..  I chatted with two friends and a relative.   CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/09 Saturday 8:40 P.M..  I chatted with a fellow walker and a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/09 Saturday 7:05 P.M..  I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors.  I will now cook and eat the same dinner as last night.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/18/09 Saturday 6:05 P.M..  BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | New images of Moon landing sites

Note: <888> 07/18/09 Saturday 5:35 P.M..  I woke up at 1 P.M., when a relative called.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up the mail.  I packed my belongings.  I might load the car, once the sun goes down, and it is cooler.  I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors, and I walked around the building.  I think this trip besides turning off the other things in the apartment, I will also turn off the electric hot water heater to save on electricity.  I made a ham and cheese sandwich to take with me.  I will try to get up early in the morning on Sunday morning and leave early.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/18/09 Saturday 3:35 A.M..  I got the FedEx tracking number on the Seagate order, and I called them up at 1-800-463-3339, and they are going to hold delivery until Monday August 3, 2009, but which time I should be back.  I will now go to bed.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/18/09: 

Note: <888> 07/18/09 Saturday 3:00 A.M..  I will now send out my weekly notes.  I will then shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go back to bed.  Have a good day.  CIO

I can look up my Seagate order at Seagate US Online Store - Help

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Note: <888> 07/18/09 Saturday 1:10 A.M..  I also had a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  I noticed when I threw out the garbage tonight that the smoker's bench at the north end of the building has disappeared.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/17/09 Friday 11:35 P.M..  I put the laundry away.  I am watching www.cbsnews.com about Walter Cronkite passing away.  CBS news will broadcast a program about Walter Cronkite on Sunday on the Prime Time program. 

I will now make the same sautéed sirloin steak dinner with my usual vegetable mixture with olive oil and watered down passion punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/17/09 Friday 10:45 P.M..  Walter Cronkite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia has passed away today.  When I was at www.cbcnews.com during Watergate at the broadcast center on west 57 street for a couple of months, he was not there, since it was a live feed from the Senate hearing, but I kept an eye out for him.  He was away in Nantucket sailing.  I did once see him walking down the street on Sutton Place in Manhattan.  My mother knew him, and she said this evening he was a really nice guy.  My grandfather Scott always liked watching his evening news broadcast.  Today I was awaken at 9 A.M. by a friend who wanted me to look for a dog friendly hotel in Danbury, Connecticut at www.hotels.com .  I chatted with a relative.  I am driving back up to Kennebunkport, Maine to be with family members this Sunday, and I will be there for about a week and a half.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I went back to bed until about 3 P.M..  I ate a piece of apple pie with watered down passion punch.  I chatted with Seagate at 1-800-732-4283.  Once I get the tracking number, I can have UPS or FedEx hold the shipment for the hard drives, until I return.  I went back to bed until 6 P.M..  I chatted with two relatives.  The Optimum Voice long distance service has not been working properly the last couple of days.  I called up Cablevision, and they said my service was all right.  I finally determined the Linksys T-Mobile wireless router was interfering with the long distance service, so I have turned off the wireless router, and I will only use it when needed.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have 15 minutes to go on the dry cycle.  I chatted with neighbors.  I watered the plants.  I will try to get to bed earlier this morning, so I can be on a daytime schedule on Sunday.  I chatted with my relative again this evening who told me about Walter Cronkite.  I am listing to the www.cnn.com broadcast about Walter Cronkite. www.cbsnews.com is not covering the story.  CIO     

Note: <888> 07/17/09 Friday 2:35 A.M..  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good morning.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/17/09 Friday 1:45 A.M..  JPMorgan's Profits Beat Expectations - Forbes.com

BBC NEWS | Americas | US teen gains solo sailing record

Note: <888> 07/17/09 Friday 12:50 A.M..  I made a three egg omelet with processed slices of cheese and grated and parmesan and Romano  cheese and six strips of fried bacon and a toasted English muffin with olive oil and watered down passion punch.  I also ate a piece of apple pie.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/09 Thursday 11:00 P.M..  I threw out the garbage and the bowl shipping box with its packing material.  There is quite a bit of lightning off to the north, so I do not think it is safe to go out for a walk tonight.  Also at age 59, I probably should not be walking around late at night, although I do have the experience after all of these years.  Also I only got about six hours sleep today.  They usually do not need me at the Sidewalk sales, because I usually do not have money to buy anything, and I usually do not need anything they offer, and usually there are plenty of people out there, so they do not need any observers from out in southwestern Greenwich.  Back in 1975, when Dorothy Bush lectured at the Greenwich Country Club after getting back from seeing her son who was ambassador from China, it was reported in the Greenwich Time that her elder son was building a Country Club in China just like the Greenwich Country Club.  Who knows with all of the Chinese over there, maybe they built a whole town in China like Greenwich, Connecticut, and we are not even in the U.S.A., but Greenwich, China.   When I went to the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut there was one student from China in my class that lived in Brooklyn, and as I recall another friend at Taft had parents who had lived in China in the 1930s, and since the Luce family of www.time.com also were Chinese missionaries, before they started the magazine, there are a number of people with more experience with China here than me.  In Nantucket, the use to have the Peking restaurant, but it did not last very long.  When we has a bit more money, we also used to eat at the Chinese restaurant here next to the Y.M.C.A..  The last time I ate there about four years ago, Chilean Sea Bass was $15.99.  They have rebuilt since the fire destroyed their restaurant about 10 years ago.  Of course there are other Chinese restaurants in town, and I think I have eaten at the Golden Pavilion restaurant at the Riverside Shopping center a few times over the years, and the Panda Pavilion that use to be at the Grand Union Shopping plaza is now next to Wendy's on West Putnam Avenue, and there is a Chinese take out restaurant on lower Greenwich Avenue across from the Japanese restaurant, so obviously we have Chinese around here.  Also when I worked as a waiter at Boodles in 1973 during the summer and fall before the stock market crashed, we had a Chinese chef and kitchen help that wore top sider shoes.  As I recall the chef's name at Boodles was Henry.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/09 Thursday 9:50 P.M..  I chatted with a relative and a friend.  It is interesting in this story Police Shoot, Kill Armed Man Near U.S. Capitol - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com, they do not tell anything about the gunman.

I will now shower and clean up.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/09 Thursday 8:20 P.M..  From Seagate: FreeAgent™ Outlet Store , I ordered two Seagate 3.5 inch Internal Kit PATA 320GB hard drives for $49.99 each and free shipping on over $50 with promo code "outletfreeship" and $6 tax for $105.98.   CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/09 Thursday 7:55 P.M..  I woke up at 3 P.M., when I had three fax telephone calls, but the Brother fax machine was turned off, and the answering machine was turned on, so I could not receive them.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.

Seagate: FreeAgent™ Outlet Center free shipping on $50 with promo code "outletfreeship" starts at 8 P.M. this evening EDT.  CIO 

The order for 4 Rim Soup Bowl for $5.99 less 20% automatic discount of $4.80 for $19.16 less 10% off with coupon code "CCABIN10" for a $1.92 discount and $6.95 shipping for $24.19 total arrived via the regular UPS delivery person.  I took the old bowls out of the right kitchen cupboard, and I put them underneath the Danish table to the left of the Epox computer.  I put the new bowls in the right kitchen cupboard.  They are not round, but they are slightly oval with what looks to be parsley inlaid design. 

I chatted with a relative and a friend.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/09 Thursday 9:05 A.M..  I ate a piece of apple pie.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good day.  Showers today with a high of 82 degrees Fahrenheit.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/09 Thursday 7:35 A.M..  I installed the Windows updates on all of the partitions on all of the computers.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/16/09 Thursday 4:50 A.M..  I ate the last piece of pound cake with watered down passion punch. 

If you forgot CTFLUWATCH: CT Towns with Confirmed Swine Flu Cases  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/09 Thursday 4:10 A.M..  MS Patch Tuesday: 9 bulletins, 6 rated critical | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

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Note: <888> 07/16/09 Thursday 2:30 A.M..  25 cent at minute AT&T refurbished Nokia GoPhone 2600 with camera $24.99 Nokia 2600 GoPhone refurbished $24.99 plus shipping if you do not activate online.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/16/09 Thursday 2:20 A.M..  Paul McCartney and his band look pretty hungry, so I guess things in the recession are worse off in England after the British banks went bankrupt.  In the recession of the 1970s, Sarah Churchill ran a Soup Kitchen in Manhattan and I covered the meat packing district hoping to get a hamburger, but back then I was only about 125 pounds, and today I am 210 pounds from learning how to buy the sale items at our local grocery store particularly the Stop and Shop where the Grand Union used to be.  I think Fred http://mikelouisscott.com/fred.htm knew Sarah Churchill, but Fred back then ate mostly Dannon yogurt at home and Fetticini Alfredo at the Isle of Capri.  There are no all night grocery stores anymore in Greenwich, Connecticut, and they close at the latest at 11 P.M., but over at the Riverside Shopping center, there is an all night CVS, and just east of there where Caldors used to be there is a 24 hour Walgreen's.  Also I think the Colonial Diner across from the Y.M.C.A. in downtown Greenwich is also opened 24 hours.  Since gasoline has gotten so much more higher over the recent years, I have not had the opportunity to explore much what is happening in neighboring communities.  I think the A&P in Port Chester, New York at the shopping center there across from the closed Port Chester hospital might be opened 24 hours.  I also think the Pathmark in Port Chester, New York next to Home Depot is opened 24 hours.  I am not sure whether the Super Stop and Shop in downtown Port Chester, New York is opened 24 hours, but since I get food stamps, I only buy my food in Connecticut where I get them from.  Since I worked as a dish washer pot scrubber and also food preparation work on and off in restaurants mostly in Nantucket from 1977 to 1983, I know a bit about kitchen work particularly in terms of cleaning up.  Alas on my budget, I can not afford the more expensive foods like fish and other items I used to eat regularly, when they were cheaper.

I use to eat shark steaks 5,000-pound shark washes ashore on Long Island - CNN.com , but there are so many skinny people out on Long Island, they probably ate it all.

The senior British person, I know in Greenwich, Connecticut collects Bing Crosby records, so I guess the Old Guard British like Bing Crosby, and he made Connecticut famous with the movie, "Christmas in Connecticut".   CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/09 Thursday 12:50 A.M..  I saw the last set on David Letterman.   About the only job I ever had in New York was working for www.cbs.com for a couple of months, but they fired me during Watergate back in July 1973, and I have not been able to get a job since, except a dishwasher at the Languedoc in Nantucket and a few other odd jobs.  However, I have managed to keep busy with computers and communications for the last 20 years and for the last 17 years, since I was mugged in Manhattan by someone from Bermuda who thought I was a British diplomat, I have only gone to Manhattan three times.  I went in the February after I was mugged in July, and it was minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, so there were no muggers around.  I went in the February after the 911 attack for the G8 conference to tour museums, and I went in to the Microsoft conference about 2 and a half years ago.  I will now have the same dinner as last night.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/16/09 Thursday 12:30 A.M..  Paul is Back.  CIO     

Note: <888> 07/15/09 Wednesday 11:55 P.M..  Here is my list of vitamins and supplements and other non prescription pills in reserve stock, and I also have the opened ones Michael Louis Scott's Vitamins and Supplements .  Thus I do not need anymore from CVS at the moment.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/15/09 Wednesday 11:20 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  There were not many people out, since I guess the children were at the Harry Potter movie, and the adults are probably getting ready to go the Sidewalk Sales for the next three days.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 10.7 ounce cans of CVS smoked almonds for $3.50 each for $7 total.  After my walk, I sat out and enjoyed the empty view of Starbucks after it closed.

I was given a flier for the viewing of a documentary "Making A Killing, The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging".  They are showing it at the Greenwich Library auditorium Tuesday July 21, 2009 from 6 to 8:10 P.M.  For information call 1-203-357-0423 sponsored by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights of CT. (CCHR).  CCHR was established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, so they have a political agenda.

I next went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two petit sirloin steaks for $2.99 a pound for $5.23, a 28 ounce bottle of KC Masterpiece Original Barbecue Sauce for $2.99, a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, and broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $2.35 for $13.56 total.  I then returned home, and I put away my purchases.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/15/09 Wednesday 8:00 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  I ate two hot dogs with buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.   I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will shower and clean up, and then I will go out for a walk to try to lose some weight.  I once read that in the old days, it cost $2 million dollar for every pound in space, and since I weigh 210 pounds, it would cost $420,000,000 to send me into space, which would be a bit too expensive.   I will shut down the Epox computer before I go out.  To play the Epox computer on the Sony TV, one pushes the TV/Video button on the Sony TV remote control to the left of the Epox computer mouse, and one switches it to Video 1, and one can see what is on the right primary monitor on the Epox computer including any video in full screen.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/15/09 Wednesday 7:00 P.M..  The order for Grand Slam Pleated Performance Shorts - Big & Tall in waist 46 inches for $19.20 and .99 shipping for $20.19 total arrived, and they fit just fine.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/15/09 Wednesday 6:55 P.M..   I woke up at 1 P.M..  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I chatted with a relative twice.  I went back to bed until 5:30 P.M..

I started up the primary Vista computer, and the Epox computer playing off the Sony television as a monitor to watch NASA - NASA TV  and NASA - Space Shuttle .  I chatted with a relative.  I watched the launch off the High Definition television on the primary Vista computer.  I went outside to see it fly by in the southeastern sky, but the sky was overcast.  I threw out the basil plant from the rear of the Audi.  I picked up the mail.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/15/09 Wednesday 3:25 A.M..  Long Island 15 foot Shark washes ashore, maybe something bigger did it in .  CIO

Note: <888> 07/15/09 Wednesday 2:35 A.M..  One of those stress management stories about back country that the wealthy back country people frequently ignore Wilton, Norwalk residents spot bears - Greenwich Time

Note: <888> 07/15/09 Wednesday 2:15 A.M..  I wanted to buy these Rs120 / Rs-120 926 MHz Wireless RF Headphones, Charging Cradle, bstock w/ Warran DAKmart  refurbished for $29.98 and $12.89 shipping, but I may be going back up to Maine in a week or so, so I need to be here to receive them, so I will not order them now.  I will have to wait to see what my plans are.

They cost more new here Newegg.com - SENNHEISER RS120 3.5mm/ RCA Connector Supra-aural Wireless RF Headphone for $120 with free shipping, but the next lower model here Newegg.com - SENNHEISER RS110 3.5mm/ 6.3mm/ RCA Connector Supra-aural Wireless Headphone for $52 with free shipping at the moment.  However, the RS 120 model supposedly can be recharged from its base unit without replacing the rechargeable batteries.

One might need an adapter to connect them to one's stereo or other sound system.

Note: <888> 07/15/09 Wednesday 12:20 A.M..  I also ate a piece of pound cake and a cup of Salada green tea with splenda and lemon juice.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/14/09 Tuesday 10:45 P.M..  I woke up at 3 P.M. this afternoon.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  I surfed the internet.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area including the far side of the train station.  I also picked up three new Metro North train schedules good from July 13 to October 17, 2009.  I put them behind the Samsung color laser printer.  I went by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I played a Beginner's Luck scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought a 12 pack of 3X Scott Extra Soft toilet paper for $6.99 and a 1 liter bottle of CVS iceberg mint oral health mouse rinse for $2.99 and .60 tax for $10.58 total.  I finished my walk, and I sat out for a while.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I chatted with one of the Staff members.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought two packages of eight hot dog buns for $1.67 each package and two quart jars of Vlassic Kosher dill pickles slices for $2 each for $7.34 total.  I then returned home.  I picked up the mail.

The orders for  New PC PCI/ISA MB Diagnostic Card Analyzer Tester POST - eBay (item 220385813239 end time Jul-25-09 20:14:46 PDT)  for $3.80 with free shipping and

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USB 2.0 ETHERNET 10/100 NETWORK CARD LAN RJ45 ADAPTER - eBay (item 320354333555 end time Jul-25-09 19:37:40 PDT) for $1.99 and $2.63 shipping for $4.62 total arrived.  I put them on the sideboard shelf in the bedroom.

I chatted with a relative twice and a friend once.  On the cake recipe below, you are suppose to use two round cake baking pans or for a half of a recipe a 8 inch square baking pan. 

I will now eat the same sautéed sirloin steak with my usual vegetable mixture with olive oil and watered down passion punch.   CIO       

Note: <888> 07/14/09 Tuesday 2:45 A.M..  I ordered on CD or DVD Disk from EBay Motors, a OEM Audi A6 Service Repair Manual for $13.48 with free shipping.  It does not work with Vista, but it will work with XP.  The link is too long to list, but it is the only one for $13.48 at EBay.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/14/09 Tuesday 1:20 A.M..  I ate a piece of pound cake with watered down passion punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/14/09 Tuesday 12:45 A.M..  BBC NEWS | Business | US budget deficit at $1 trillion

Note: <888> 07/13/09 Monday 11:55 P.M..  I ate two hot dogs with buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/13/09 Monday 11:10 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.  I went out, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I went by the Stop and Shop, and they did not have powdered milk in quart packages.  I bought a 13.5 ounce box of Cheez-its for $2.50, fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.84, and a half gallon of Minute Maid premium orange juice for $3.19 for $7.53 total.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I returned the Que book on Microsoft Vista.  I then drove over to the Riverside Shopping Plaza, and I toured Radio Shack, but there was nothing that I needed.  I went by the A&P Fresh, but they were out of powdered milk in the baking section.  I bought  a 11 piece precision screwdriver set with case for $2 and .12 tax for $2.12.  They have whole eye rounds of beef there for $2.99 a pound.  I then crossed over the border from Greenwich into Stamford, and I went to the Super Stop and Shop, and they were out of powdered milk which is normally $5.99 a five quart pack box.  I then went to the Super ShopRite across the street behind Ethan Allen, and it took a while to find, but they have a large supply of ShopRite 10 quart packages of powdered milk for $7.99, and I got two along with a 3 liter can of Capatriti olive oil for $15.99 and a 24 ounce fresh bake Dutch Apple pie for $2.99 for $34.96 total.  They have filet of wild salmon there this week for $4.99 a pound.  However, my trip although I saved money at the ShopRite probably used $5 in a gasoline.  I then returned to central downtown Greenwich, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I did not walk upper Greenwich Avenue, because I had to go to the bathroom and Starbucks was closed.  I chatted with a relative on the wireless GoPhone.  I returned home, and I put away my purchases.  I put the screwdriver set on top of the computer tool kits to the right of the Brother all purpose machine.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/13/09 Monday 6:50 P.M..  Scrubbed again.  I will now go out and do errands.  Partly Cloudy here.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/13/09 Monday 6:35 P.M..  I put the Basil plant in the back driver's side window of the Audi.  I chatted with a neighbor.  The sky is clear enough in the southeast here, there is about a 50% to 50% chance of seeing the shuttle if it launches.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/13/09 Monday 5:15 P.M..  I watched some television.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a bulky roll with 1/4th of a 6.2 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of watered down passion punch and a dill pickle slice.  I also ate a piece of pound cake.  The basil plant is not getting enough sun light, so I might put it in the driver's side rear window of the Audi to get more sunlight.

Note: <888> 07/13/09 Monday 3:50 P.M..  McAfee Internet Security 2009 - MIS09EMB3RAA - Buy.com 3 license user $11.99 with free shipping  CIO

Note: <888> 07/13/09 Monday 3:10 P.M..  I went back to bed until just now.  I will now make my bed shortly.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/13/09 Monday 1:00 P.M..  I woke up after the last note, and I ate a piece of pound cake with watered down passion punch.  I watched the movie "The Hunt for Red October".  I went back to bed until 10:30 A.M. this morning.  I did a Vista Complete PC backup of the primary Vista computer from the C: drive to the Bytecc external hard drive.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 8:55 P.M..  Vitamins and supplements are buy one get one free at www.cvs.com this week.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 8:45 P.M..  The recipe that I faxed to Maine.

                                               Paula Deen's Lady Bird Cake
 
Bake at 350       25-30 min in two regular round cake pans
 
1 cup soft butter                                                                                            
2 cups sugar
1 cup dates
4 eggs
2 cups ripe bananas
1 12 oz jar pineapple preserves
2 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
 
Cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs. Add banana and preserves. Combine dry ingredients. Add alternating with buttermilk.
Begin and end with dry.
 
Frosting
1 c butter
1 8oz cream cheese
1/4 c pineapple preserves
1 2 lb bag confectioners sugar
 
Beat together. Frost cool cake.

End of recipe.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 8:45 P.M..  Along with the olive oil, garlic, ground black pepper, garlic powder, Italian seasonings, and soy sauce, I also sautéed the petit sirloin steak with a bit of fresh basil.  I ate it with a Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce and barbeque marinade sauce.  I threw out the garbage.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 7:15 P.M..  Scrubbed until tomorrow.  I will now sauté one of the two petit sirloin steaks, which I will eat with my usual steamed vegetable mixture with olive oil and watered down passion punch.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 6:30 P.M..  Woman out to prove kinship to Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz - Greenwich Time

I chatted with a relative up in Maine, and I was able to send the recipe via Fax with the relative's answering machine temporarily turned off.  I can not post the recipe, since I think it is copywrited material.

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 5:50 P.M..  BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Endeavour set for new launch bid  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 5:40 P.M..  It is clear here today, so one should be able to see the Space Shuttle fly by high in the Southeastern sky about 10 minutes after launch NASA - Space Shuttle in about an hour and a half.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 5:35 P.M..  I went outside, and I sat out for a while.  I chatted with neighbors.  I walked around the building.  I installed the FM MP3 transmitter in the Audi cigarette lighter, and the radio and the transmitter are set to 88.3 FM.  Thus I can play the MP3 tunes on the SD card, when I drive.  I left it on Pause.  The Porta-A-Jump  battery jump start device had one of its terminals corrode and disconnect, so I threw it away.  I had a message on the answering machine from a relative.  I am hearing airline traffic for the first time in a couple of months, so now that it is warm here, maybe people are traveling up north from down south.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 4:15 P.M..  Fishermen sound off about new fee

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 3:55 P.M..  I reheated the last piece of pizza, which I ate with some watered down passion punch.  I cleaned the GE microwave turntable.  I cleaned the Ionic Pro air purifier.

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 3:10 P.M..  $299.99 plus shipping and tax Toshiba - Satellite Laptop with Intel® Celeron® Processor - Matte Silver - L305-S5919   CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 2:55 P.M..  Scary Sears Tower High Up  CIO

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 2:40 P.M..  I showered, and I cleaned up.  The relatives' phone now works in Maine, but the answering machine still picks up before the fax machine can make a connection.  I threw out the garbage, and I said hello to some neighbors.  I am not going the block party downtown, since it will probably be very crowded.  I am pretty much still a prisoner of the internet, but I have run out of things to do on the internet except my normal routine.  With the Obama recession in full swing, there is no point in buying any new equipment, and I am just maintaining the computer equipment that I have http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm which takes quite a bit of time.  I could try to do some creative writing, but my basic outlook with the recession that it is becoming like the old TV show Max Headroom, where a group of people access the internet in a struggle against the major powers of the universe.  Since nobody communicates with me, I must be out of touch with the main stream of society whom have embraced the internet for their own causes.  However, the areas that I have focused on, although they might not be too interesting have kept me busy all of these years, and I have a certain level of expertise that keeps me going on the internet for what it is worth.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 1:35 P.M..  I woke up at 10:30 A.M. this morning.  I defragmented the C: drive on the primary Vista computer, while I was asleep.  I did a Vista Complete PC backup from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  I tried sending a relative in Maine a fax of a recipe from a friend, but the answering machine picked up.  I had the relative turn off and on the fax machine, and then the relative left the house, and now I just get a busy signal from the house.  Possibly the relative turned off the answering machine instead of the fax machine.  I chatted with another relative to tell them the house phone in Maine is busy until the problem is sorted out once a relative is back there.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 1:55 A.M..  I watched a bit of television.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/12/09: 

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 12:35 A.M..  Bill Gates Vs Hurricanes

Note: <888> 07/12/09 Sunday 12:05 A.M..  I ate 3/4th of the pizza, and I refrigerated the four piece to eat later. 

Note: <888> 07/11/09 Saturday 11:10 P.M..  I took the Stop and Shop 32.7 ounce self rising pizza crust Supreme, and I put it on a 15 inch pizza pan, and I seasoned it with garlic powder, ground black pepper, and Italian seasoning.  I then put grated parmesan and Romano cheese on it and extra virgin olive oil, and I am baking it on the middle level on the stand in the Sharp convection oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 minutes for a soft crust.  I will eat it with a glass of watered down passion punch.  I have a pizza cutter that I keep in my overhead hanging rack from the ceiling.  I still have to install the changes on the Toshiba laptop too.   CIO 

Note: <888> 07/11/09 Saturday 10:40 P.M..  I put away the laundry.  I put a package left by the elevator outside a neighbor's door.  I chatted with a relative.  I have the latest version of Weather Pulse installed on all of the computers' partitions in the apartment.  I also installed the latest search page with Bing, and I also installed the updates.  I have the server contents folder copied to the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop.  I was able to copy it from the Netgear external hard drive.  It would not copy from FTP from the server.   CIO 

Note: <888> 07/11/09 Saturday 6:40 P.M..  I went outside, and I chatted with neighbors.  I started the dry cycle, and I have 45 minutes to go.  Rain this evening.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/11/09 Saturday 6:20 P.M..  I woke up at noon.   For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I went back to bed until 3 P.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I chatted with a relative.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I started two loads of laundry, and I have 10 minutes to go on the wash cycle.  I picked up the mail, and I threw out the garbage.  I am trying to copy the FIC server files to the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer which takes some time. 

The fixed version of Weather Pulse, weather software is available for download.  I put it on the FIC server and the primary Vista computer.

Note: <888> 07/11/09 Saturday 3:15 A.M..  Quick sale for former Rockefeller estate despite slow economy - Greenwich Time

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Note: <888> 07/11/09 Saturday 1:05 A.M..  I ate two hot dogs with buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I also ate a 1/6th piece of the pound cake.  Earlier today, I finished off the other pound cake.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/10/09 Friday 11:40 P.M..  I woke up at 10:30 A.M. this morning.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes. I surfed the internet.  I went back to bed until 2 P.M..  I installed Ubuntu updates on the two computers with Ubuntu partitions.  I watched a television program on the History channel about the history of the Masons in America and elsewhere.  I watered the plants.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I picked up the mail.  I ate a ham and cheese 3 egg omelet with grated parmesan and Romano cheese and a toasted English muffin with olive oil and watered down passion punch.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought buy one get one free of 100 capsule 1000 mg. Flaxseed oil for $8.99 both.  They are suppose to be good for the circulation.  I finished my walk.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  One of the regulars uses a $600 Pocket PC which is quite tiny about the size of a palm phone.  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf Station, and I bought $17 of self service premium at $3.159 a gallon for 5.381 gallons for 59.3 miles driving since Wednesday July 1, 2009 at odometer reading of 63476 miles for 11.02 miles per gallon.   I checked the tires for 32 PSI.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a 12 ounce Entenmann's All Butter Pound cake for $2.99, a dozen jumbo eggs for $2.49 expire August 12, 2009, a 32 ounce mixed flavors Stop and Shop frozen self rising pizza for $4.99, a package of petit sirloin steaks for $3.59 a pound for $7.22, a bulb or garlic for $2.99 a pound for .57, and a four inch diameter potted herb basil plant for $2.50 for $20.91 total.  I then returned home.  I put away my purchases.  I chatted with a relative on the wireless phone while downtown.  I put the basil plant on the living room window shelf underneath the center lamp with the Victorian lamp shade.  CIO    

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Note: <888> 07/09/09 Thursday 11:55 P.M..  I ate a bowl of Ramen chicken noodles.   CIO 

Note: <888> 07/09/09 Thursday 9:55 P.M..    BestBuy.com - Search Results ACer Laptop $299.99 plus shipping and tax like the one that I returned to Staples.

Note: <888> 07/09/09 Thursday 8:40 P.M..  I chatted with a relative on the wireless go phone while downtown today.  I ate two hot dogs with buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I went outside, and I checked the oil on the Audi, and it is fine.  I picked up my mail.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/09/09 Thursday 7:25 P.M..  I woke up last night, and I ate 80% of a 9.5 ounce can of cashew bits and pieces last night along with some watered down passion punch.  I finally woke up at noon today.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out to my 3 P.M. appointment.  In the future I will have that appointment at other times on Thursdays.  I then went downtown, and I picked up a prescription at CVS, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station.  I stopped by the Greenwich Cigar store, and I played a Fast Cash scratch card for a dollar, but I lost.  Yesterday I stopped by Zen Stationary, and I played a Lucky 7 scratch card for a dollar, and I lost.  After I finished my walk, I used the bathroom at the Senior and the Arts center.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I checked out the Mezzanine.   They no longer have the Old Books there.  I then returned home.  As of 6:30 P.M., the mail had not arrived.  I finished eating the 20% of cashew nuts, and I also ate a piece of pound cake with some watered down passion punch.  CIO    

Note: <888> 07/09/09 Thursday 12:05 A.M..  My www.cl-p.com electricity bill for June 2009 for 34 days was $195.86 which is high considering I was gone half the month.  I used 1011 kWh or 29.74 kWh per day and there was an average temperature of 66 degrees Fahrenheit.  For June 2008, I used 991 kWh when I was also gone half the month for 29 days usage or 34.16 kWh, and the average temperature was 72 degrees Fahrenheit.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment today.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/08/09 Wednesday 11:30 P.M..   Free Google Apps

Note: <888> 07/08/09 Wednesday 8:55 P.M..  I did a Vista Complete PC backup of the primary Vista computer from the first hard drive to the second hard drive while having dinner.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/08/09 Wednesday 6:35 P.M..  I woke up at 9:30 A.M. this morning, and I chatted with a friend.  I went back to bed until noon, when I chatted with a relative.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I surfed the internet.  I chatted with somebody from www.ibm.com , but they did not give me any useful information.  My order from www.ordersmokesdirect.com for 7 cartons of King Mountain Ultra Lights 100s in a box arrived.  I watched some Dutch news in Dutch off the internet from the Epox computer displayed on the Sony television.  I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I picked up the mail.  I went out, and I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I used the bathroom at the senior and the arts center.  I stopped by CVS.  I went by the Greenwich Kitchen Works 1-203-983-3165, and I bought the last 12 ounce plastic squeeze bottle for $2.99 and a 8 ounce one for $2.99 and .36 tax for $6.34 total.  They still have 8 ounce plastic squeeze bottles left.  I finished my walk.  I then went by the Greenwich Library, and I checked out the Que Book on Microsoft Vista.  I then returned home.  I will now cook the last of the London Broil with stream vegetables with olive oil and watered down passion punch.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/08/09 Wednesday 12:10 A.M..  I ate the last piece of apple pie with some watered down passion punch.  I chatted with  a friend about the price of tea in China.

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Note: <888> 07/07/09 Tuesday 8:45 P.M..  Acer Netbook refurbished compusa.com Acer Netbook Refurbished $220

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Note: <888> 07/07/09 Tuesday 8:05 P.M..  I finished a half of a 16 ounce jar of Planters' lightly salted dry roasted peanuts.  I ate two hot dogs with buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/07/09 Tuesday 5:25 P.M..  I woke up last night, and I ate a piece of pound cake.  I also chatted with a friend.   I finally woke up this morning at 8 P.M..  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I surfed the internet.  The Weather Plus Weather program has not been working today.  It give an error message "Missing XOAP "link" parameter in request" on all computers.  I read the latest computer periodicals.   I threw out the old computer periodicals and the garbage.  I chatted with neighbors.   Apparently some of the neighbors in the family units had their tires slashed and their cars damaged by vandals.  The police are suppose to be here one day soon for a Community Watch meeting.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a bulky roll with 1/4th of a 6.2 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of watered down passion punch and a dill pickle slice.  I checked the mail, which has not arrived at this point, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I sat out downtown briefly.  I went to my regular Tuesday 3 P.M. appointment.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop, and they have books on sale for a dime.  I then returned home, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I ate a piece of pound cake with some watered down passion punch.  I made up a fresh batch of passion punch.  CIO       

Note: <888> 07/06/09 Monday 7:20 P.M..  I ate 1/4th of a 16 ounce jar of lightly salted dry roasted peanuts.  I watched some television.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good night.  Rain tomorrow afternoon with a high of 76 degrees Fahrenheit.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow afternoon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/06/09 Monday 5:55 P.M..  I ate a piece of apple pie with watered down passion punch.  I chatted with a friend.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/06/09 Monday 5:00 P.M..  I got another 32 watt circular florescent light bulb from the building custodian to have in reserve for the light fixture above the toilet.   I picked up mail.   

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Note: <888> 07/06/09 Monday 4:15 P.M..  I chatted with a relative.

Note: <888> 07/06/09 Monday 3:00 P.M..  After dinner, I checked the mail which has not come, and I chatted with neighbors.  I setup the Toshiba laptop at the second dining table place, so it is now ready to use.  Thus I am back up running nine computers http://mikelouisscott.com/computer.htm .  I certainly did not need a tenth one.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/06/09 Monday 1:10 P.M..  I woke up last night, and I ate 30% of a 16 ounce jar of Planters' lightly salted peanuts.  I finally woke up at 7 A.M. this morning.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I went out, and I drove over to Staples in Old Greenwich, and I returned the Acer laptop computer for $317.98 refund.  I then went by the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a relative.  I then by the Greenwich Town Hall, and I paid the property tax on my 1998 Audi A6 Sedan of $36.26.   I then went by the Wachovia Bank on Havemeyer Place, and I paid my rent to the Greenwich Housing Authority.  I then walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I chatted with a few locals.  I was told by Bill Clark, he also visited the British Museum.  I told him that when Griff Harris was First Selectman his wife was from England.  I finished my walk.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and I bought a day old pound cake for $2, a 59 ounce container of Simply Orange orange juice with calcium for $3, a pound of sliced Stop and Shop premium deli ham for $4.99 a pound for $5.64, a 8 ounce container of Stop and Shop parmesan and Romano grated cheese for $2.99, two 15 ounce bottles of Kikkoman soy sauce for $2.29 each, a pound of Stop and Shop maple flavored bacon for $1.99 and fresh Chiquita bananas for .69 a pound for $1.87 for $22.07.  I then returned home, and I put away my groceries.  I will now make the same sautéed London Broil dinner that I had two and three nights ago.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/05/09 Sunday 10:55 P.M..  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good night.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/05/09 Sunday 10:50 P.M..  I watched some television.  I chatted with a relative.  I got to thinking about it, that I do not really need the Acer laptop, since I never travel.  I hardly use the laptops that I already have.  I also can not afford to travel.  Thus I will return it back to Staples in Old Greenwich tomorrow.  I am sure somebody else will want it.  I have not opened it up yet, so I am sure they will be happy to take it back.  I moved the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer back to the small computer desk.  I still have the second Dell Latitude CS laptop computer by the French reproduction chair.  I do not have the older Toshiba laptop setup, but I do not need to have it setup.  I now have to vacant spots at the dining table in case I ever have a guest.  I will now eat a piece of apple pie with some watered down passion punch.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/05/09 Sunday 9:15 P.M..   BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Moon probe returns first images

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Note: <888> 07/05/09 Sunday 8:40 P.M..  I set up the Dell Latitude CS laptop computers in their new locations.  I also put the Creative Vibra web cam on the second Dell Latitude CS laptop computer.  I will not setup to the Acer Laptop tonight.  I want to think more about keeping it to make sure I can afford it.  I really might want to be more active this summer.  I can not find the Linksys USB 2.0 hub, and I do not seem to be using it on any other computers.  I have a spare generic USB 2.0 hub to use on the Acer Laptop, when I set it up, if I decide to do so.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/05/09 Sunday 6:55 P.M..  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a bulky rolls with 1/4th of a 6.2 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of watered down passion punch and a dill pickle slice.  I chatted with an interested relative, and I was told that it is up to me as to whether to keep the Acer laptop, so I will keep it.  I will now start moving the Dell Latitude CS laptop computers into their new positions.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/05/09 Sunday 5:45 P.M..  I woke up at 10 A.M. this morning.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.   I made my bed, and I washed the breakfast dishes.  I surfed the internet and watched television.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I went out, and I went to www.staples.com in Old Greenwich, and I bought a case of Hammermill Copy Plus Paper for $38.99 and $2.34 tax for $41.33 total plus it has a $19 rebate.

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Note: <888> 07/05/09 Sunday 2:20 A.M..  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Have a good morning.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/05/09 Sunday 1:35 A.M..  Georgia Police Car

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Note: <888> 07/05/09 Sunday 12:05 A.M..  I made a three egg omelet with processed slices of cheese and grated and parmesan and Romano  cheese and six strips of fried bacon and a toasted English muffin with olive oil and watered down passion punch.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/04/09 Saturday 10:20 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  I saw a sign at West Putnam Avenue and Western Junior High saying the Shakespeare festival would be performing at Roger Sherman Baldwin park starting tonight until July 15, 2009.  However, it costs money, so I did not go.  I went downtown, and I walked the entire length of Greenwich Avenue and the train station area.  I sat out at various locations.  I chatted with a few locals.  I stopped by CVS, and I bought two 9.25 ounce cans of Planter's bits and pieces cashew nuts with sea salt for $3 each for $6 total.  I also picked up next week's circular.  After my walk, I sat out for a while.  I used the bathroom at Starbucks.  The Stop and Shop was closed early.  I need to get some Kikkoman soy sauce and powder milk.  I could hear the fire works from Port Chester, New York.  I returned home, and I sat out briefly.   There is a full moon tonight.   I do not drive down by the waterfront on Steamboat Road anymore, since the Hispanics down there do not like seeing me around, since the seem a bit turf conscious.

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Note: <888> 07/04/09 Saturday 7:15 P.M..  I chatted with some neighbors.  I put away the laundry.  I chatted with a relative.  I was told by one of my neighbors that at the meeting, they said they are going to put in the double pane windows this season, so two different neighbors have told me the opposite thing.  I ate two hot dogs with buns and ketchup and mustard and 1/4th of a 6.5 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a dill pickle slice and a glass of watered down passion punch.  I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go out for a walk.  CIO  

Note: <888> 07/04/09 Saturday 5:05 P.M..  Drink French wine and live a long time Guy de Rothschild | Times Online Obituary .  I started the dry cycle, and I have 40 minutes to go.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/04/09 Saturday 4:45 P.M..  I woke up at 9:30 A.M..  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I watched Book TV, and I went back to bed twice until 3 P.M..  I ate a piece of apple pie.  I put clean linens on my bed.  I am doing two loads of laundry, and I have five minutes to go before the dry cycle.  I threw out some garbage.   CIO   

End of Scott's Notes week of 07/04/09: 

Note: <888> 07/04/09 Saturday 1:15 A.M..  I will now send out my notes, since June 20, 2009.  I will then shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  Happy Fourth of July.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/04/09 Saturday 12:55 A.M..  After the last note, I went outside, and I moved my car to its usual place.  I said good evening to a neighbor.  I tried installed the Creative Vibra web cam on the Northgate Syntax computer, but its drivers would not install.  I left the Ezonics web cam on it, but I mounted it on top of the LCD screen with three rubber bands strung together.  I watched a BookTV review by the author Brands on a new book about F.D.R..

Note: <888> 07/03/09 Friday 8:45 P.M..   Microsoft May Offer Windows 7 'Family Pack' - Software - IT Channel News by CRN

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Note: <888> 07/03/09 Friday 6:50 P.M..  The Dutch like cold weather The Dutch Royal House Visit of the Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima to the Antarctic Continent, 6-9 February 2009

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Note: <888> 07/03/09 Friday 6:40 P.M..  I ate a 1/5th piece of apple pie with some watered down passion punch.

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Note: <888> 07/03/09 Friday 5:50 P.M..  I woke up at 9 A.M..  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I went back to bed until 11 A.M..  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I watched on MSNBC a program about marijuana in California and a program about the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan.  I surfed the internet a little bit.  I ate a ham and cheese sandwich on a bulkie rolls with 1/4th of a 6.2 ounce tube of Pringle sour cream and onion potato chips and a glass of watered down passion punch and a dill pickle slice.  I chatted with a friend.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage and the old periodical literature.  I chatted with a relative.  I went outside, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I chatted with a relative.  We have a bit of back ground noise in the area from children playing with fire works.  Since I will be visiting with a relative in Kennebunkport, Maine this September 2009 who still smokes cigarettes, more than likely I will not be able to quit smoking cigarettes until some time after that.  The last time I quit about five years ago, being around the same relative got me smoking again.  I guess I should order some more cigarettes.  My rent statement from the Greenwich Housing Authority arrived, but the Wachovia bank on Havemayer Place was closed by the time I received it.

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Note: <888> 07/03/09 Friday 12:45 A.M..  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

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Note: <888> 07/02/09 Thursday 7:30 P.M..  I went out after the last note.  I went by the Chase Bank on West Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue.  The apartment building behind it has put up a gate, so one can not drive out the back way.  I then went to my regular 3 P.M. Thursday appointment.  I toured the Greenwich Hospital Cafeteria which offers excellent value on meals, if you do not mind going to the hospital.  I then went by the Greenwich Hospital Thrift shop.  I chatted with a local nature walker about the dead mountain lion or cougar I saw.  I then went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue, and I bought two 7 ounce Nature Valley granola bars 6 packs for $3 each, two 12 packs of Thomas' English muffins for $1.99 each 12 pack, two 3.25 ounce Old Spice high endurance deodorant sticks for $2.50 each, four Edge extra moisturizing shave gel 7 ounce for $2.50 each, one 15 ounce VO5 mint tea shampoo .99, and one VO5 15 ounce clarify conditioner for .99 and .83 tax less a $5 off $25 CVS internet coupon for $22.79 total.  I then got two 6 bar packages of Nature Valley 7.4 ounce Trail Mix bars for $3 each and two 12 packs of Thomas' English muffins for $1.99 each 12 pack less $7 in CVS bonus bucks for $2.98 total.  I was at CVS for about an hour and a half waiting for a prescription, so I also spent a dollar on parking in the rear lot.  I finally got the prescription.  I then went by the Stop and Shop, and a yesterday's apple pie 25 ounce for $2.50, two 6 ounce Gold's Hot horseradish for $1.59 each, a 12 ounce container of Stop and Shop generic honey for $2.49, two 48 ounce containers of Quaker old fashion oats for $4.99 each, two 64 ounce containers of Stop and Shop grape juice for $2.50 each, two 64 ounce containers of Stop and Shop cranberry juice for $2.50 each, a family pack of two top round London Broils for $1.49 a pound for $6.14,  a two pound bag of baby carrots for $2.99, fresh bananas for .69 a pound for $1.62, broccoli crowns for $1.99 a pound for $2.57, a bulb of garlic for $2.99 a pound for .45, and a 5 pound bag of red potatoes for $3.99 for $45.91 total.  I then returned home, and I used my folding cart to bring up my purchases.  I put away my purchases.  I chatted with a relative.

I will now make my regular sautéed 12 ounce London Broil with my steamed vegetable mixture with olive oil and watered down passion punch.  I will put Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce and barbeque sauce on the London Broil.   CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/09 Thursday 11:05 A.M..  They are not going to put in the double pane windows this summer in the building where I live, so I do not have to worry about moving the furniture out of my apartment to install them, but I will face another cold winter.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/02/09 Thursday 10:50 A.M..  I woke up at 6:45 A.M. this morning.  For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with honey, a toasted English muffin with olive oil, a glass of 50% passion punch and 50% cold filtered water with vitamins and supplements, and a cup of coffee with milk and splenda.  I washed the breakfast dishes.  I made my bed.  I chatted with a relative.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I threw out the garbage, and I chatted with a neighbor.  I took the Creative web cam off the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer, and I put it on the right side board shelf in the bedroom.  I still have the Logitech web cam on it.  CIO   

Note: <888> 07/01/09 Wednesday 10:55 P.M..  I paid my www.cablevision.com Digital Cable Television, Optimum Boost Online, and Optimum Voice long distance, my www.cl-p.com long distance, and my www.verizon.com bills.  I still have 6.5 cartons of cigarettes left, so since I might be trying to quit smoking cigarettes some time soon by using the patch, I will not order cigarettes at this point.  I am a bit tired, so I will now shut down the primary Vista computer, and I will go to bed soon.  I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/01/09 Wednesday 10:35 P.M..  I microwaved and ate a Maria Callender 21 ounce frozen lasagna that I put grated Parmesan and Romano cheese on it, and I ate it with a glass of watered down passion punch.  I still weigh 206 pounds.  I installed the new web cam on the Epox computer, since it only came with about a five foot cable, it works better with the Epox.  The new web cam does not fit easily on a LCD monitor, so I held it down with three rubber bands strung together.  I moved the Creative Live Cam to the Abit computer, and I installed the other Creative web cam on the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer.  I still have to install the drive on the Dell.  I chatted with a relative.  I will now pay my first of the month bills.  CIO

Note: <888> 07/01/09 Wednesday 8:00 P.M..  I was awake at 7:15 A.M. this morning, when the masons arrived to frame the rear yard stairs.   They are going to pour the concrete tomorrow by pouring it through a boom over the house.  The New York Times arrived today.  I ate a breakfast of oatmeal with honey and a sliced banana, a whole wheat toasted English muffin with butter, coffee with splenda and half and half, and a glass of watered down orange juice with vitamins and supplements.   I made a ham and cheese sandwich to take with me.  I showered, and I cleaned up.  I packed the Audi.  I started the laundry to wash the sheets and towels.  I straightened up the bunk room.  I left the new HP LaserJet 1018 printer in the bunk room with its CD and USB cable and the Philips squids UPS power supply, so others can use them with laptops.  The two new cordless telephones are there on the desk in the basement to be installed when needed.  I picked some flowers for a relative.  I said my good byes, and I left the house at 9 A.M..  I stopped by the Wells, Maine Amtrak train station for a break.  I took the Maine turnpike from Wells, Maine to the New Hampshire turnpike, and I paid a $2 toll on each turnpike.  I stopped at the Massachusetts welcome center.  I took I-495 West, and I stopped at the Lowell rest area.  I took I-290 West, and at Worcester, I took the Massachusetts turnpike bypass, which I think might be longer than I-290 West, but it depends on traffic.  I stopped at the Charlton rest area on the Massachusetts Turnpike, and I ate my ham and cheese sandwich.  I bought $15.50 of self service premium Gulf gasoline at $2.939 a gallon for 5.275 gallons for 140.7 miles driving since I filled up yesterday in Kennebunk, Maine for 26.673 miles per gallon at odometer reading of 63286 miles.  I got off at I-84 West at Sturbridge, and I paid a 65 cent toll.  I stopped at the Connecticut welcome center.  I took I-90 South bypass to the Wilbur Cross Parkway west.  I stopped at the North Haven, Connecticut rest area.  I stopped at the New Canaan, Connecticut rest area.  I took North street south into Greenwich, and I arrived at the Chase Bank just west of Greenwich Avenue on West Putnam Avenue at about 3 P.M..  I then went by the Greenwich Automotive Services Gulf station, and I bought $14.01 of self service premium gasoline at $3.159 a gallon for 4.435 gallons at 130.1 miles since the previous fill up for 29.335 miles per gallon at odometer reading of 63,416 miles or 260 miles from Kennebunkport, Maine in six hours.   I then stopped by the Valley Road post office, and I picked up my mail.  I then returned home.  I chatted with a relative.  I turned on the air conditioner and the toilet.  I put a new Clorox blue toilet tablet in the toilet tank.  I brought up my luggage.  I unpacked, and I set up the second Dell Latitude CS laptop again on the dining table.  The order for 16.0 MEGA Pixel USB Web Cam Webcam PC Video Camera 16M - eBay (item 320360550876 end time Jun-14-09 06:15:59 PDT) for $13.99 with free shipping arrived.  I will set it up on the Abit computer later on.  I will move the Creative Web cam from there to the primary Dell Latitude CS laptop computer.  I drank some passion punch.  Yes, we have no bananas.  I started up the FIC server, and I had to unplug and plug in the Creative Live web came for it to be recognized properly.  It is running fine.  I installed the updates on the primary Vista and the FIC server computers.  Everything in the apartment seems to be normal.  I left the mail crate at the mail room.  I checked the Audi oil, and it is fine.  One can not check the tires, when they are hot from driving.  I got a $5.98 rebate check from Staples on paper that I bought.  I have to pay my first of the month bills in a little while.  I ate the rest of the dried almonds on the way down from Maine.  I printed out my Microsoft Money 2007 June 2009 income versus spending report, and I will fax a copy to an interested relative shortly.  CIO 

Note: <888> 07/01/09 Wednesday 6:40 P.M..  I was back in Greenwich, Connecticut at 3 P.M. this afternoon.  More to come later.  CIO