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  It has been a whirlwind few weeks. One  father's friends from high school passed away earlier and we made an expected trip down to Murrells Inlet for the celebration of life. They have kept in touch over the years. Charlie moved around a lot during his eighty plus year his roots remained n Allendale, NJ! He and his wife Bev were a fixture a t DeeDee and Anth ony's Fourth of July Parties. I   know their kids,John and Annie.Charlie also had to sons from a previous marriage and it was recently discovered he has another daughter. Charlie was the CEO of several companies, like Floor Shine shoes and Munsingwear, a golf clothing company.  The family moved around a lot from  Allendale,NJ to  Connecticut to Minnesota before finally  settling in Murrells Inlet SC, founding the Dead Dog Saloon, a fixture on the Murrells Inlet Marshwalk, he later built the Claw House next door. Ironically Charlie and Bev brought a second house in Cape May which meant I spen...
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Update on Justinmattes.com

 Well history always seems to repeat itself. I obtained"justinmattes.com after I struggled to get "
bergenscanner.com back. At the time I knew about website design but not website management. I started on Tripod, a free hosting services with ads with some frequencies which grew into a  then a radio associate who worked for a web hosting company offered to partner up with me, he host the site on one of his company's server and I would edit it. Well everything was all and dandy until the hosting company went out of business. Even though I had access to change the site, it wasn't always easy, the site went dark a few times./ Pretty soon the company went out of business and the website went with it Including the domain name which got scooped up by a company that waits for domains to expire and then pounces. It's very common, another lesson I learned on the fly. Another friend helped me get the domain back and switched the site to another server. I had the domain under control and for first time I had full control over bergenscanner.com! 

. After getting that settled I decided to immediately register my own name with the intention of pulling all my interests under one site. Eventually I had the email, "kc2gik@justinmattes.com" which I still have with some problems.   I picked up experience on the way and still kept the free site on  Tripod where I hosted a license plate website and started using Geocities for my writing with all the hopes of someday moving them onto the server I used for Bergenscanner.com. It was a struggle all the way but I finally had it all. I got my writing, radio, and license plate stuff under one server. 

All was well for year until I started to notice a major increase in the hosting fees. I paid the increase for years knowing that eventually was going to move everything once again. I was just waiting for the time to be up before I did the big switch again. I always dread setting everything back up again. PowWeb announced a major price hike coming  in September and that was the last straw. I cancelled my service right away and my website was deleted. Right before this my Lenovo laptop decided to take a dump. Luckily after years of heartache  and worries I did manage to back everything yup!  Email kc2gik@justinmattes.com

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