Note: <888> 09/14/01
Friday 11:15 P.M.: I went to bed about 8:30 A.M.. I was up at 3 P.M.
when a friend stopped by. We watched the news reports on recent
terrorists events. I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs,
toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. We went for a drive
around the waterfront. I then went by the local library, and I
read the local paper. Apparently 7 people are missing or dead
locally in the terrorist events according to www.greenwichtime.com . I walked lower
Greenwich Avenue. A large number of people were out for a candle
light prayer service. I drove down by the waterfront. I stopped
by Exxon, and I bought $8.25 of premium at $1.839 a gallon. I
then went by the Food Emporium, and I bought a 50 bag box of
Twinings Earl Grey tea for $5.49, a dozen extra large eggs $1.79,
Seabrook frozen spinach .59, Angostura bitters $3.59, Pepperidge
Farm hotdogs rolls $1.59 for $13.27 total. I returned home, and I
had some ice tea. I then had a couple of quarter inch thin slices
of cold white chicken meat with Tabasco sauce, steamed frozen
peas, microwave potato, and ice tea. I watched a bit of the
media coverage. CIO
Note: <888> 09/14/01
Friday 7:05 A.M.: I had a cold chicken leg and thigh with steamed
corn on the cob and green beans and ice tea. I then relaxed a bit.
I guess I will head off to bed. CIO
End of Scott's Notes week
09/14/01:
Note: <888> 09/14/01
Friday 4:10 A.M.: I have been relaxing this morning thinking of
the past weeks events. I guess we all have to pull together and
do the best we can for the nation. I am not sure of what the
status is on the War and whether a degree of war has been issued
by the United States of America Congress or against whomever.
Well, I will send out my weekly notes. Let us pray there is no
more terrorism. http://mrscott.com/usanthem.rm . CIO
Note: <888> 09/14/01
Friday 2:00 A.M.: Well, I sifted through my email. I fiddled with
the HP LaserJet IID printer. I emptied the bottom paper
cartridge, and I filled the top paper cartridge to the maximum. I
have it working fine without paper jams. My theory from
experience with this particular type of LaserJet printer is that
not only the paper alignment and paper quality effect its
performance as far as paper jams, but since we live in a damp
area near the ocean, humidity also plays an important factor on
whether paper jams will occur or not. Right now with the top
paper cartridge filled to the maximum it is feeding the paper
just fine. I relaxed a bit and thought about the recent weeks
events. I suppose I will have to get use to being a little more
active since as it begins to cool off a little bit more this time
of year, I will be less hot and overheated when I go out for
regular routines. Still, with all the media reports on the recent
tragic terrorist events, since I don’t really read that much
regular news, it is hard to make sense of why it would even occur.
However, I suppose with the Internet and travel it is a much
smaller world today. CIO
Note: <888> 09/13/01
Thursday 10:20 P.M.: I was up at 1 P.M.. I had breakfast of
oatmeal, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I made my 3 P.M.
appointment. I stopped by the Hospital Thrift shop, and I bought
a Audubon mouse pad for .25. I then walked lower Greenwich Avenue.
I then drove by the waterfront. I returned home. I fell asleep
until 9:30 P.M.. I had two hotdogs with buns and condiments,
chopped cantaloupe, and ice tea. CIO
Note: <888> 09/13/01
Thursday 6:50 A.M.: I watched the local media. Two men in
this area walked down from the 80th
floor of the World Trade Center just before it collapsed. Another
media outlet reported a large number of the terrorists involved
are in the Boston, Massachusetts area. I probably will rest now
for a while since I have a 3 P.M. appointment. CIO
Note: <888> 09/13/01
Thursday 4:05 A.M.: Well, I have just been relaxing. There is not
much going on. I did not watch much television, since it tends to
increase stress while relaxing. I did have a few slices of cold
chicken with Tabasco around midnight along with a steamed ear of
corn on the cob and steamed green beans and ice tea. I suppose
with the increased tension in the community due to local
terrorists events in the New York metropolitan area along with
Washington D.C., it probably will be best to stay inside as much
as possible. It is a very nice time of the year, but being
disabled with arthritis, I actually do not spend that much time
outside anymore besides doing a few short errands. CIO
Note: <888> 09/13/01
Thursday 12:20 A.M.: I checked with a local night person, and he
said I should stay inside at night during this crisis.
Realistically, I don’t have the funds to move around much
anymore, and as the weather gets colder with my arthritis, I am
not that good at exercise walking in colder weather anymore. I
will try to keep busy at home. I normally do not watch much
television. CIO
Note: <888> 09/12/01
Wednesday 11:30 P.M.: I have been advised by the local television
channels that there are two United States of America aircraft
carrier battle groups off the coast of Long Island and New York,
so I think it would be standard procedure that United States of
America and other Allied military observers would be in the
coastal areas. CIO
Note: <888> 09/12/01
Wednesday 9:25 P.M.: I was up at 5 P.M.. I chatted with a
relative today. I was told a local citizen had probably died in
the World Trade Center, since he had an office on the 102 floor
of the World Trade Center in a finacial office. Another friend
told me he had two of his relatives were on their way to work at
the World Trade Center when they saw one of the two planes hit. I
am familiar with the area, however I have not worked that area in
18 years. I rested today. There are reports on the local media
that the downtown area of Manhattan is filled with burning
asbestos fibers, so anyone going into that area should wear
protective breathing apparatus or least face masks. I will
continue to maintain my apartment here, although I am on limited
funds and somewhat in shock. I have a 3 P.M. appointment tomorrow.
I had a couple of hotdogs with buns and condiments, chopped
cantaloupe, and ice tea about 6 P.M.. I will continue to rest for
now. CIO
Note: <888> 09/12/01
Wednesday 7:45 A.M.: I woke up at 3 A.M.. I watched the
television news reports. I had breakfast of three medium boiled
eggs, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I could try to
go out today, but for now I guess I will remain inside. For
historical reference, here is a link to a picture of myself with
a friend from the Valhalla, New York; the last time I visited the
World Trade Center http://mrscott.com/picms/mike-scott-and-friend-new-york-1987.jpg . CIO
Note: <888> 09/11/01
Tuesday 10:45 P.M.: A friend came down and visited. We watched
the television media reports on the terrorist attacks today. I
chatted with a couple of family members. I turned off the
computer for a while. Since I run the computer continually, when
I finally turned it back on just now, the bearings started to
make noise in the power supply. The way to fix this is to turn it
on briefly and then turn it off quickly before reboot, so that
the computer is off again. Since every time one starts it and
stops it, the bearings realign themselves. Thus after a few times
the power supply fan starts to work properly. Today’s events
were most tragic. Apparently nothing is moving in the area. Since
I was tired, I rested a couple of hours this evening. My guest
and I had dinner of cold chicken, steamed corn on the cob and
green beans, and ice tea. My guest just left. Today’s
events were most tragic. I suppose when one lives in a busy
metropolitan area, one becomes hardened to catastrophic events.
Since as a young former employee of CBS news in the early 1970s,
I use to enjoy walking around at night in the financial area
during the winter. Many times I watched the rather tall and large
fellows from Olympia and York Construction Company of Toronto,
Canada building the World Trade Center during the Oil Boycott of
the 1970s. I once thought of using a friend’s video camera
to film it stage by stage as it was constructed. It had about a
ten story deep foundation with the pilings driven down as far as
the building was high. I use to marvel at the plans of the World
Trade center built out of Carrera Marble. I always said in the
cold winter nights of New York, it looked like a tuning fork, and
like a tuning fork it would send out sound around the world. I
guess the current terrorists, do not like the sound and practice
of international business. It is so sad to hear about all the
employees and rescue workers whom were needlessly killed in this
most heinous and senseless act of barbarism. It truly shows the
barbarians still exist in the world community, and they have
their minds set at continually practicing their barbaric
practices. I suppose for those of us whom remember the builders
of the World Trade Center, we remember those were quite miserable
and cold winters in Manhattan when neighbors from a neighboring
country to the north came down to our assistance. I had gone to
school a couple of years before in Florence, Italy and had skied
at Carrerra, Italy where the marble came from. Whatever, the
point of the senseless violence projected against the United
State of America today and its international allies, I am sure
the World Community will soon come to focus on the perpetrators
of this most senseless of all acts. One simply only needed to
visit the World Trade Center, to see all the different people of
the world engaged in international commerce. The last time I
visited the World Trade Center was about fifteen years ago with a
friend from Brazil that gave the Aka Khan as a reference, and
ever since then we have seen much larger amounts of coffee
distributed in the Americas. Here in Greenwich, Connecticut, I
live across the street from the Perrier group a French sparkling
water company owned by Nestle a Swiss company, the world’s
largest food group. Thus, it seems to me that many people through
misinformed sources have focused their wrath on the World Trade
Center, along with the Pentagon, which indeed would have enemies.
Well since I live in a building for elderly and disabled people,
I suppose we are not a terrorist target; so I will continue to
run my computer server which might have some useful reference
information for some of my internet users. My web site has been
non-profit all these years, and I have use a large of amount of
my small amount of personal funds to maintain and run it for the
benefit of Internet users around the world. I have not gone to
Manhattan in about nine years since I was threatened with another
act of terrorism about that time. Basically as a reader and
researcher, I suppose one has to come to know that the forces of
evil are always amongst us, no matter how hard one tries to
enlighten the general public. Well, I am most tired; so I suppose
I will go to bed shortly. Pray for the victims and their beloved
ones that lost them. Let us pray we do not have to endure anymore
of these barbaric acts. CIO
Note: <888> 09/11/01
Tuesday 1:20 P.M.: I have been watching the television news
reports on the terrorist attacks in the United States. Pray
for the victims and their families. I am a bit tired having only
three hours sleep. I had breakfast of three medium boiled eggs,
toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. I guess I will try to
get up enough energy to go out after I clean up, and assess the
situation in our local area. The television reports that the
Connecticut and the New York National Guards have been mobilized,
so I imagine the civilian public moving around might possibly
encounter military guards moving around. I will continue to run
the server, which I turned off for a while, unless I feel it
might be necessary to turn it off again. Remember, there is
always the possibility of terrorists having procured
thermonuclear devices. Let’s hope not. CIO
Note: <888> 09/11/01
Tuesday 10:45 A.M.: I have been monitoring the terrorist events
of this morning on television. I chatted with neighbors. Both
towers of the World Trade Center have collapsed in the terrorist
attack on the World Trade Center with two hijacked commercial
airliners. A commercial airliner also crashed into the Pentagon
and another commercial jet was reported crashing in Pittsburgh. I
will continue to remain at home since it would be very chaotic
downtown. I have chatted with a couple of friends and a family
member. CIO
Note: <888> 09/11/01
Tuesday 5:00 A.M.: I went out, and I mailed the letter. I drove
down by the waterfront. I returned home, and I relaxed and had
some ice tea. CIO
Note: <888> 09/11/01
Tuesday 3:10 A.M.: I uninstalled some of the devices in my device
properties, and I reinstalled them; so the computer is working
more smoothly. For some reason, they were malfunctioning. The
system is running just fine now. I wrote a letter, which I will
go out and mail now. CIO
Note: <888> 09/11/01
Tuesday 12:20 A.M.: I went out, and I drove by the waterfront. I
then stop by the Stop and Shop, and they were out of the Cookin
Good chickens for .59 a pound for the night. They will have some
more tomorrow. I went over to the Food Emporium, and I bought a
Purdue oven stuffer chicken at .79 a pound for $5.85, a 34 ounce
bag of EOC Hasslenut coffee beans $8.79, and two large cantaloupe
for $2.98 both plus green beans at .99 a pound for $1.26, and two
ears of corn for .40 apiece for $19.68 total. I then went home. I
rinsed off the Purdue chicken and dried it. I then covered both
sides with chicken poultry seasoning, ground black pepper, garlic
powder, celery salt, oregano, Italian spices, and basil. I then
covered the topside with barbeque sauce, and I am cooking it in
the convection oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit until the bird
watcher thermometer pops after about an hour and a half and it
will be ready in about fifteen minutes. I also took my existing
batch of coffee beans in the three coffee grinders and the
freezer, and I mixed them with the 34 ounce bag of Hasslenut
beans and refilled the coffee grinders and the three jars in the
freezer. I then cut in half and then quartered and cleaned the
two cantaloupes removing the seeds and peeling off the rind. I
then chopped both into bite size pieces and put them into two
Rubbermaid containers in the refrigerator. I threw out the
chicken guts and cantaloupe remains. I will put the whole Purdue
chicken once it is done into the refrigerator to chill to have
for cold chicken the next few days. CIO
Note: <888> 09/10/01
Monday 9:25 P.M.: I made my appointment. I came back at 4 P.M.. I
fell asleep until 7 P.M.. My houseguest, and I had the same
dinner as last night. We chatted a while. My houseguest
just left. CIO
Note: <888> 09/10/01
Monday 2:25 P.M.: I fell back asleep until noon. My houseguest,
and I drove over to Stamford, we browsed Marshall’s and then
I also looked at Staples and Odd Job. We returned back to the
apartment. On the way, we got roast beef sandwiches on hard rolls
at the Holly Hill deli on Old Track Road. We had them for
lunch with ice tea. I have a 3:30 P.M. appointment. CIO
Note: <888> 09/10/01
Monday 8:15 A.M.: I went to bed at 9 P.M. last evening. I was up
at 3 A.M., and I read some computer news and watched a bit of
television. I slept from 4 A.M. to 5 A.M.. I had breakfast of
oatmeal, toast, orange juice, coffee, and vitamins. My houseguest
was up at 6 A.M.. We will go out in a little while. I put the new
CVS Clorox toilet tablet in the toilet tank. CIO
Note: <888> 09/09/01
Sunday 7:50 P.M.: My house guest, and I each had three third inch
thick slices of cold eye round roast with Gold’s horse
radish on it and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, steamed
sweet corn on the cob, steamed zucchini and ice tea. I am now
making up a batch of http://mrscott.com/icetea.htm . CIO
Note: <888> 09/09/01
Sunday 5:25 P.M.: I went by CVS on Greenwich Avenue. I returned a
two pack of CVS blue toilet cleaning tablets for $1.37 refund,
which I used for buying a CVS bleach toilet cleaning tablet for $1.99
plus .12 tax for $2.11. In my toilet, I guess from the chemicals
that the Greenwich water company adds, the CVS blue toilet
tablets develop a heavy white scale on them that coats them
entirely preventing the blue substance from leaching into the
toilet bowl. Other blue toilet cleaners don’t do this. I
then drove by Exxon, and I bought $10.50 of premium at $1.859 a
gallon. I went by the Greenwich library, and I read the local
paper and PC magazine. I then drove by the waterfront. I noticed
the old restaurant on Putnam Avenue just west of Greenwich Avenue
on the south side of the Post Road is reopening, and it will be
called Barcelona. I guess next we will have a restaurant called
Madrid and then Paris and London and Rome. I then stopped
by Staples in Old Greenwich, and I noticed the Xerox toner
cartridge for my HP LaserJet IID costs about $68. I threw
out a toner cartridge with the broken HP LaserJet II last Sunday
which would have worked. Of course toner cartridges are sort of
messy to save. However, if I knew I could use it so soon; it
would have saved some money. I then drove around Tod’s Point.
The sidewalk artist sale is going on in Old Greenwich. I walked
out to the southeast point. I walked and sat at both ends of the
beach. It was quite busy today. According to the Greenwich Times
today, out of town guests will have to pay $10 for access to the
beach under the new beach regulations permitting anyone from out
of town to use the beach. The Greenwich Times never
addressed the matter of insurance liability, which should concern
the taxpayers since the town is self-insured. I then went by
Greenwich Avenue, and I walked lower Greenwich Avenue. I
bought a $1 lottery game ticket at Zyns. I have not scratched it
off yet. I then stopped by Stop and Shop, and I bought 6 ears of
sweet corn for $2.39, Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce for $2.19,
Nielsen’s package of 8 hotdog buns $1.50 for $6.08 total. I
then went by Smokes for Less in Byram, and I bought one carton of
Seneca Lights 100s and one of Ultra Lights 100s for $19 each and
a can of Ronson lighter fluid for $1.75 for $39.75 total. I then
returned home, and I had a Barq’s frost rootbeer in a
frosted mug. My dinner guest just arrived. CIO
Note: <888> 09/09/01
Sunday 12:05 P.M.: The reason I uninstalled Windows XP beta RS 2
is that it was two slow on my 366 MHz computer with 192 Megs of
memory. Also I will not be able to afford the professional
edition upgrade which comes with the backup program since at $200.
It would be too expensive. Still my computer is running just fine.
One slight problem besides the two speakers that go with the
woofer not working is that the second output jack on my Creative
MP3 Live sound card is not working. Still the primary output jack
works. I have a two-way splitter on it; with one of the two spit
cables having a three-way splitter on it. Thus the three sets of
speakers are connected to the three-way splitter, and the earplug
for the headset is connected to the second split end of the two-way
splitter. CIO
Note: <888> 09/09/01
Sunday 11:55 A.M.: I was up at 9:30 A.M.. I cooked the eye round
roast at 325 degrees Fahrenheit in the convection oven for 50
minutes. I had a few slices of it for dinner with horseradish on
it and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce, along with steamed
green squash, and microwave potato, ice tea, and cappuccino. I
vacuumed the apartment. Well time to clean up and go out for some
fresh air. CIO
Note: <888> 09/09/01
Sunday 2:15 A.M.: I was up at 4 P.M. yesterday afternoon. I had
breakfast of three medium boiled eggs, toast, orange juice,
coffee, and vitamins. I decided to uninstall Windows XP beta RS2
on the primary computer system. However, the system crashed on
reboot with no way to recover. I finally formatted the C: drive.
I then installed Windows ME. I then copied the MSBackup files
from my backup computer to my primary computer. I had to check
the floppy cables on the backup computer since the floppy A:
drive was acting erratically. I finally got it going properly. I
put the MSBackup file’s system files in the “C:\windows”
directory. The program ran properly. MSBackup was one of the
accessory programs that came with Windows 95. I use it for making
hard drive to hard drive backups. I then restored my C: drive
from the backup on the D: drive. I had to OK some files which
took a while. I did all my house cleaning and watering the plants
except the vacuuming while doing the restore. I then had to
reinstall the HP LaserJet IID and Epson Stylus Color 880 printer
drivers since the back up was done last Sunday. I also installed
the software that came on the Epson CD. I also had to reinstall
and configure from the backup both Microsoft Money 99 and Money
2000. I checked my computer sound system. I put all the speakers
out of one jack with splitters since it seemed like the other
jack might not be working. My pair of speakers that go with the
woofer don’t seem to work though except the Woofer. I have
two other pairs working fine. I checked the primary
software programs to make sure they all work. Thus I have
restored my system, and I pretty have it back to the way it was
before. This all took a bit of time. About midnight I had two
hotdogs on buns with condiments and one more hotdog without a bun
along with ice tea. I also chatted with a relative earlier this
evening. CIO
Note: <888> 09/08/01
Saturday 10:30 A.M.: I have been up all night and morning. I
decided to install Windows XP beta RS2 on my primary computer
which took some time. I also uninstalled the beta off my backup
computer. I made one mistake which caused a bit of a problem. I
tried installing the Creative Programs for the SoundBlaster Live
MP3 card using the Windows 2000 files. They messed up the newly
installed beta. I used System Restore and got the system running
back to the new install configuration. This all took some time. I
am quite tired. I had one telephone call. Well time for bed. CIO
Note: <888> 09/08/01
Saturday 12:10 A.M.: Well I sifted through my daily links http://mrscott.com/scotwork.htm . I also
installed the latest version of Microsoft MSN Explorer MSN Explorer . CIO
