Thursday, March 26, 2009

Making a Connection

Computers and the World Wide Web have made connecting with friends an interesting venture. Many years ago a family friend gave this note of encouragement and vintage coin to our childhood neighbor. At the time Lisa was just a little girl and the friend an adult. This month she found the note and coin in an old jewelry box and made contact with my sisters and I on Facebook (resulting in my post on Family Ties). Well, I got curious where our old friend disappeared to. The last time we knew of his whereabouts he was in Florida planning to buy a sailboat, but I also knew he had family in the Minneapolis area. I started a search which led me to Classmates.com where I typed up an email only to have it ask me to become a "gold member" in order for my friend to read my email. Baaa! Evidently Classmates is pretty good at coercing people to send them money because they sent him an email notifying him of a message from "Martha T." Finally having an unusual first name has payed off! He didn't pay to receive the message either, instead, after trying to remember our last name, he looked us up in the phone book online. Yesterday I got a phone call from the Philippines where my friend has lived for the past four years. We had a wonderful conversation and when I asked if the call was costing him an arm and a leg, I heard him smile as he said, "Well, it's cheaper than flying."

7 comments:

  1. Was that the guy who used to live on Lasher Rd?

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  2. No, Ann and Ray lived on Lasher Rd. Allan lived on Muckland Rd.

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  3. Missing? naw, I'm here, just dealing with family... T and family have flu, Had David for one night, his tem went up again to 103.5.. I took him home this am, I still have Em. Then there was all the cooking on a one day notice for Paul and his driving partner, who BTW, wants me to adopt him now that he has had a taste of my fudge. :D
    Carl hasn't been the best. And to top it all off following a round of antibiotics for tooth extraction and a Sulfa drug antibiotic for a UTI,,, well you can guess what follows that. :( I will not be set back by all the hoop-la that has been going on.
    I have pictures of the Grands to post when I get a chance.. now I am off to make meatballs and skeity for dinner. :)

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  4. AWESOME!!! How cool is that?

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  5. that's awesome:) And I love that he gave that old coin.. any kid would love that.

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  6. Interesting story!
    I would recoomment a reservation for Friday night, because sometimes it gets very busy. 585 9050950 is the phone no.

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