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WDLT Banquet - 9/13/2008 at St Matthew's

Stephanie, Kelsie, Ali & Amy showing off their theatre trophies.

a little bit about me...

i married my college sweetheart (Kathleen) on July 26, 1986. we got married at Our Lady of the Lake church in Freehold, NJ (same church her mother was married in). we moved into an apartment in west deptford, NJ for about 2 years before buying a home on 8th avenue in the same town. we have 3 children, Anthony (1988), Matthew (1990) and Kelsie (1994).

STOP!

This moment brought to you by me...stop the rush...don't answer that cell phone...sit down...relax and take in the moment.

Trying new software...TestDisk (OpenSource!)

TestDisk is OpenSource software and is licensed under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

TestDisk can

• Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
• Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
• Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
• Fix FAT tables
• Rebuild NTFS boot sector
• Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
• Fix MFT using MFT mirror
• Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
• Undelete files from FAT filesystem
• Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.

TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.

URL: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Happenings this week

- Keslie gets her wish: Rock Band for the Wii
- Phillies have won 6 straight and are now half game ahead of Mets
- DD (Drew at Drexel) Good Luck!
- Korman compound...Beautiful
- Medicare Part-D and NJ PAAD...advise from my father to help a friend
- Kitchen floor looks GREAT...thx motts

Trying a new program...NetSetMan

NetSetMan provides a way to manage multiple IP settings. It allows you to set up profiles for any number of networking situations. Need to hard code an IP or leave it up to DHCP? Alter your hostname and workgroup? Map a printer and network drive? Create a profile, and NetSetMan will tackle all those tasks with a couple of clicks next time.

So far, so good!

Happenings this week...

- new client in cherry hill is driving me nuts
- motts is coming to do kitchen floor this weekend
- kelsie's WDLT banquet is this weekend
- phillies are 2 back...can then come back
- kelsie started HS and she not too excited about it
- boys came home to help move stuff out of kitchen
- anthony is going out with girl named Colleen
- eagles play Monday Night against cowboys

A little bit about me...

i am one of seven children born in bridgeton, nj in 1960. i am a triplet. i have an identical twin; his name is jimmy, and a fraternal brother named paul. i have an older brother and sister (carl & linda) and 2 younger brothers (peter and christopher). my parents, Peter and Suzanne, were married in 1953. our family grew up in south jersey in primarily 2 towns; bridgeton then in 1970, vineland.

Happenings this week

made 4 trips, up and down stairs, to move Melletz into new offices at Cherry Hill
kelsie and the gang hits Allentown for another JB Concert
mom & dad officially moved onto Comcast & vonage
laurie's 50th birthday coming up...got to send card
my back is killing me
labor day!

Happenings this week

Mike Fanelli's father past away last weekend. funeral wed night
kelsie is staying over Uncle Timmy's & going to Hersey Park wed
matthew heads to Cabrini tomorrow, anthony on Sunday
anthony heads up to cabrini on Saturday. he is all moved in
Olympics closing ceremonies are today. usa takes 110 metals total!
mom and dad are getting comcast internet & tv on sunday, 8/24/2008
sunday church and breakfast.

I'm trying a new program...lastpass

https://lastpass.com/

lastpass is a free password manager that makes your web browsing easier and more secure.

Phelps is the most decorated Olympian

last Saturday night, 8/16/2008, Michael Phelps broke Spitz record of capturing 8 gold metals in 1 olympic games. history was made. i tivo'd it for kathleen.

"Take Off"

Taken while down in Florida for Christmas last year.

JB's are a big hit

my daughter and her cousin lexie had a great time at the jonas brother's convert up at the NJ Arts Center this past Sat night. my wife took quite a few pictures, most of them very dark and blurred becasue of the darkness, but still many good shots.

Happenings this week...

Marcia Mattson funeral last night, sad to see her go, i will miss her
Olympics: free style mens relay team beat out France..Yeee Ha!
kathleen see a beautiful rainbow after Marcia's funeral (all the colors were present)
added a few more programs to my free utilities list
working with Dad quite a bit on switching over to Comcast and converting PST files to DOC
kathleen and Kelsie travel down to Barnegate for the day
the dreaded AntiVirusXP2008 virus strikes again at textronics...to the rescue Spyware Dr.!
Olympics: US women get Gold & Silver in Gymnastics All Around!

2008 Olympic Coverage

Find More Olympics Photos at NBC Olympics.com!

Happenings this week...

kathleen, kelsie, alli and kim went down to sea isle (shore). they had a great time with beautiful weather.
matthew finally deposited his checks from his grad party. now if i can only get him to get his car reinspected.
trying to finalize matthew school loan...tough stuff
went down to mom and dad's to install new brother printer and have dinner
marsa mattson dies suddenly (Wednesday) from heart attach while down at shore vacation home with family. funeral this sunday
went to julie's house to look at computer. looks like fan is broken

facebook fans

well my daughter and many of my nieces are now facebook fans. in fact, its getting harder to be alone any more. i, of course, have a facebook account but i never thought i would be flooded with notifications request and comments from all these kids (young adults...i'm sorry). i like facebook better than that other social network place because you belong to a group (at least one) and more often than not it's your high school or college or work place. anyway, it was on my mind so I'd thought i would mention it. i hope they don't start twittering...that would drive me to drink! LOL

How many grand children can you count?

the Lyons grand children (all of them) at matthew's graduation party.

WDLT - Bugsy Malone 2008

congratulations to the entire production staff and fine young performers of the wdlt performance of bugsy Malone! although the back stage crew quit a day before the opening performance, karen and laura were able to recruit enough support to make the show work. there were some prety funny scene changes. kelsie and ian did a wonderful job. the production was held at St. Matthew's school gym.

Nina & Brian's Wedding

nina and brian put on a wonderful wedding ceremony and reception! nothing was left out, including a surprise song ("Crazy" by kenny rogers) for our wedding anniversary which happened to be the same day! i was very impressed with all the attention to detail. what a terrific couple.

My Wonderful Kids!

bugsy...coming soon

kelsie plays the part of blousey brown, bugsy love interest. the play is a week from this friday. she has 2 solo singing parts. can't wait to see and hear by baby up on stage again.

matthew graduation party...we made it through

well we made it through another child's HS graduation party (7/19/2008). we had it at Incarnation Church in Mantua again (same place as Ants). i hope everyone had a good time. we had the entire Lyons gang in attendance as well as many of the Casazza's. Paul and Kathleen and the kids made it down which was really cool. food was good. volleyball was good. conversation was good. i can't thank everyone for coming out and making Matthew's day a special one. happy birthday Don!