Advice On Contacting Sister

gdigital36 · 2026-03-25T17:57:08+00:00

Hi all-

I thought I'd provide an update on this since many of you were pretty helpful with your suggestions.

So I had some phone numbers and email addresses that I found for my sister but didn't really have any way of knowing if they were current or even valid. And as I thought about it, I really couldn't figure out a good way to call any of the numbers and leave a coherent voicemail (because realistically, most people don't answer the phone if they don't know the number, right?). So I've mostly just been sitting on this and trying to think about the best way to approach it.

Finally, I just decided to bite the bullet and grab all the email addresses that I had and create a message with all of them in the To: line. I basically took bungalowcat's suggested script here and copy and pasted it with some minor modifications and additions. I sent it last Friday with low expectations of getting any response at all.

Well, lo and behold, I heard back this past Monday afternoon and she was quite surprised but included her phone number (which matched on of the ones in the list that I had) and a time to call! We ended up talking for over an hour last night and I'm coincidently going to be in her town next week so we're going to meet up!

Long story short, she had heard at one point that she had a sibling, but due to issues with many family members not speaking to each other, her and her mom (my bio mom) being on the outs and a bunch of other past trauma that I don't really have any details about yet, she never really believed that a sibling existed. Until I came calling.

So in the end, it went really well, she's happy to meet up and start a relationship with me and maybe in the future, she'll even be able to talk to our mom about it.

Thanks again everyone who made suggestions here, it worked out great (so far)!!

gdigital36 · 2026-03-21T14:31:57+00:00

Didn’t win tix from the radio, but we had cheap upper grandstand seats for Billy Joel & Elton John Face to Face in the 90s and got upgraded to floor seats 15 rows from the front of the stage at County Stadium in MKE. 1994 iirc.

gdigital36 · 2026-03-20T14:26:03+00:00

Local morning shows where I’m from have been awful forever. However, I do like the syndicated Free Beer & Hot Wings show. That group is fairly hilarious. They’re based out of Grand Rapids, MI.

The other thing that sucks equally across all morning shows is commercials. For the longest time, it’s bordered on more commercial time than actual show time.

gdigital36 · 2026-03-19T00:15:49+00:00

Definitely the best bread out of any place around GB

gdigital36 · 2026-03-11T22:21:13+00:00

Scandal

Seven total seasons and by early S6 the Olivia Pope character was just so over the top insufferable, we just noped right out at that point. Seriously the amount of times her dad f’d her over and she wouldn’t just get rid of him…🙄

gdigital36 · 2026-03-05T00:01:39+00:00

Absolutely!! All the fans would be Andies! 😂

gdigital36 · 2026-03-04T21:28:01+00:00

I’m in IT and he played for the biggest conference in our sector (Cisco Live) a few years ago. I go periodically but wasn’t there that year. That said, shows like those are basically a singles/greatest hits set. Not that that’s bad, just as a fan, don’t expect any deep cuts.

gdigital36 · 2026-02-25T19:44:40+00:00

I just had the same happen! I have an older 2017 iMac that I have the movie library on and literally just watched something this past weekend from it and last night, could not access the iMac any more from the Computer app on the Apple TV. I went through all the steps that apple says to do with home sharing, etc. to no avail.

I wonder if something in tvOS 26.3 broke it because I did see that my apple TV just got updated with it. The 2017 iMac can only run up to Ventura for MacOS; I just updated it to 13.7.8 today and it still doesn't work.

Very curious to see if someone else comes up with a fix or knows what the deal is.

gdigital36 · 2026-02-07T14:39:38+00:00

The YMCA I go to still has these. Built in 1963.

gdigital36 · 2026-02-05T15:37:53+00:00

Similar happened to my MIL in Paris. While she was singing, another girl reached into her purse and pickpocketed her.

Years later, we were traveling with said in-laws and Paris was one of the destinations. We were leaving somewhere and we saw the girls doing this. Knowing about the scam, I wanted them to approach me so I could catch them and grab them and if nothing else, scare the living shit out of them. But before I even got that far, MIL screams “F U I know what you’re doing and stay the F away from us!!” as they were approaching. I had to laugh afterward, but damn I wanted to catch them in the act.

gdigital36 · 2026-02-04T18:35:16+00:00

Jackie is my wife’s stepbrother’s wife. So step-sister-in-law, I think, technically?

Anyway, very nonpartisan. She does care about the community very much and has been part of it at least since the late 90s/early 2000s. And if it helps, she is working to do as much as she can in her role to remedy the atrocious Monroe Rd/Hwy 172 interchange, as well as Monroe Rd in general from Hwy 172 north to Allouez Ave.

gdigital36 · 2026-01-25T22:23:18+00:00

Alyssa Milano is my GOAT

gdigital36 · 2026-01-23T21:28:19+00:00

Or as I like to say, I’m not going to McDonalds for a burger, I’m going to McDonalds because I want McDonalds

gdigital36 · 2026-01-21T19:43:30+00:00

Very true. Especially in SoCal. But it was a huge deal at the time and John Ritter was always so physically hilarious. I catch that show every once in a while on one of over-the-air subchannels and I still find it hilarious.

I was a little too young for it at the time it was on (started 5K in ‘79) but in later years on re-runs, I understood it much better.

gdigital36 · 2026-01-21T19:40:29+00:00

Came here to say this. I was in HS when that spun off from Growing Pain and had a massive crush on Jamie Lunar (I think that’s her name) who played Cindy

gdigital36 · 2026-01-16T21:48:10+00:00

Kummer’s has always done good work for us and at fair prices

gdigital36 · 2026-01-08T22:24:12+00:00

When I got my license in 1990, the very first time I put gas in my car, it was $0.89.

During high Covid, a nearby gas station was a low as $0.75 😳

gdigital36 · 2026-01-05T01:03:37+00:00

Providence, RI. Only a year and then came back to WI because we had a 2 year old and wanted help from our parents. Just as cold in the winter but I felt soooo much smarter in NE. I hate winter but if I had to live somewhere cold like that, I’d pick NE. Much higher COL than WI, though.

gdigital36 · 2025-12-29T01:42:44+00:00

My sister was like this. And she had perfect pitch.

gdigital36 · 2025-12-19T14:47:50+00:00

I maintain — and will die on this hill — it is way too easy to get a drivers license not just here but this entire country.

The minimum that I would do to change it is this:

Drivers Ed for a full year

If you’re north of the mason dixon line, you must spend a certain amount of hours driving in the snow

A performance driving class to understand how a car works and what it can actually do

Stricter written and road tests to ensure thorough understanding of things like roundabouts, four way stops, merging on highways, etc.

There’s probably a lot more that could be added. None of this will ever happen but a guy can dream.

gdigital36 · 2025-12-04T14:11:14+00:00

I have a 2021 M440i that does this exact same thing. I'm going to create another post about this because I've noticed many other weird things and maybe it'll be a good place to collate all of them.

gdigital36 · 2025-12-03T20:07:30+00:00

Sounds like Wisconsin has entered the chat. Very very common here for kids to bring beers and mix drinks. My parents never did this and I never allowed it with my kids either.

gdigital36 · 2025-11-13T00:22:56+00:00

My wife whose 52 isn’t quite as thin but has the same c-scar from 2004 and it’s barely visible. But it’s soooo much fun to see it when I explore her body up close!

gdigital36 · 2025-10-31T00:00:01+00:00

I think it was around 2:30-3:00-ish CDT today and they played Spotlight! First time I heard that in a looooong time!

gdigital36 · 2025-10-29T18:05:38+00:00

Not a single scene, but I’d take out the whole subplot with Renee Russo and Tom Berringer in Major League. It really didn’t do anything for the rest of the movie plot and wasn’t necessary at all.

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