If you need to contact Ted Rattei for any reason (or no reason at all!), this page is for you. If you are a salesperson that wishes to sell me windows or a new roof, please don't inquire with me - call my mom instead

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I enjoy hearing from all manner of people, especially some of the swell folks I've met at Concordia Academy or Bethel College over the last few years. Often times email is the fastest means of contacting me - I'll see it and tap a reply back pretty quick in most cases. Why is this? I'm usually keeping an eye on my email while at work, or when lounging around at home. If I'm not checking my email, I am probabily working or sleeping. In either case, it would be of slim probability that I would respond any other way to your desire to contact me, so why not email me?

My email address is: ted@rattei.org

You can also telephone me - there is nothing that brightens my day more than a phone call from someone that I haven't seen or heard from in quite a while. I usually prefer that folks call my cell phone - I take it pretty much everywhere I go. You can certainly try calling my house if you so desire, but you'll have to talk to my parents, and you probabily called because you wanted to talk to me. Right? Of course right! So if you call my cell phone, I'll see that you're calling, and either answer the call immediately, or let it roll over to my voice mail. Sometimes I am actually working, and I can't take the call immediately. Feel free to leave a brief message telling me how to get ahold of you. Please don't leave emotionally sensitive messages for me, as I may be operating a mororized vehicle while listening to my messages. I'd really hate to get into a car accident because I was overwhelmed at the news that you were getting engaged (or that you aren't engaged anymore!). So leave your number, and we'll sort out the details later on, when I can sit down and prepare myself for the news.

Our phone numbers:

Tom: 651-295-9101
Meg: 651-295-6936
Ted: 612-201-2393
Luke: 612-201-2551

But wait! We've reached the 21st Century, and technology marches on! Instead of trying to leave me a voicemail message, and make sure that you said your number correctly, (which could be a problem if you were eating a Peanut Butter and Bananna Sandwich at the time) I've got a better solution for you. Why not send my cell phone a message that you called? My cell phone can handle short incoming messages (up to about 240 characters, spaces and such included). You can jump on the technology bandwagon yourself, by simply sending an email message to cell@rattei.org. If you have a lot to say, put the really important stuff at the beginning, otherwise I'll be mystified as to why I'm getting a few lines of really interesting material - but I won't know who it it from and who to call to follow up with later on. The nifty thing about this method is that the cell@rattei.org email address actually sends email to two seperate email accounts - ted@rattei.org, which is my main personal address, and tedr@vtext.com, which is my Verizon Wireless email that forwards the message to my phone. That way, I get the really important stuff right away, and I can check my email later on to get additional information.

My cell phone's email address: cell@rattei.org

Finally, there are those of you out there that are a really special bunch. You go above and beyond the call of duty, wishing to use the United States Postal Service to send me a card, a letter, or perhaps some pictures of a recent vacation that you went on. There is a special place in my heart for people such as you. The feelings that rush through my head when I see a letter with my name on it are difficult to describe - they are somewhat like the feeling of a clean room, or the smell of fresh bread on a Saturday morning. Anyway, it's enjoyable to get stuff from folks near and far using USPS. For those of you out there, my US Mail address is:

Theodore L. Rattei
815 13th Street.
Minneapolis, MN

With all these methods of communication, I'm sure that I'll be hearing from you soon!