Author: gfielder

First, a big thank you to my brother, Jeff. He watches Bonnie for me during my monthly trips to Brasil. He’s a big help and a great guy. This Thursday, I left work and met my friend John at my house, and he took me to the airport for this month’s trip. Thanks to John,…

I just received this photo from Melody yesterday.  It’s my first grandchild, and she has just learned to smile.  Here’s a quick picture. Awesome, huh?

I took a trip this weekend to see my cousin, Mark and his family.  They live near Montrose, PA. Mark has a wonderful place in northeastern Pennsylvania, up in the hills a bit, where winter comes a few weeks earlier and lingers a bit longer than in Delaware.  Although rain was predicted, it turned out…

Yesterday, I retrieved my Explorer  from the transmission shop.  The transmission is great now.  Unfortunately, I had a “check engine” light to deal with – likely caused by long periods of inactivity.  I’ve been driving the Focus and my bike most of the time.  I have an interface and software that allows me to talk…

Gate 9 Tom Jobim International Airport Rio de Janeiro 7:15pm I’ve got a few minutes before my flight boards. I posted a long blog earlier that just touched on a bunch of things that happened this trip. We were able to get Monica’s visa – she’ll be flying to Miami on July 7, and then…

Hi! I’m in Brasil on a trip where we planned on finishing up Monica’s visa. Monday, Monica had her mandatory appointment with the doctor that consults for the US Consulate. This visit was a requirement for her visa. We drove to Rio in the Tipo with Monica suffering from a nasty cold. The drive to…

Thursday night 40 thousand feet, headed towards Miami from PHL Everyone has had that dream, you know, the one where you are being pursued by a tiger, bear, Soviet agent, HIllary Clinton (fill in your own bogeyman) and it seems like your legs are stuck in quicksand. No matter how hard you try, you just…

I’m at 35000 feet on my way to PHL from San Juan. I’m in business class – a surprise upgrade that I did not request. I found out about it at the very last minute when the ticket machine at the jetway spit out my ticket and complained that my seat was assigned to someone…

It’s 7am, and I’m at the airport, waiting to board my plane. I’m not going to Brazil today – I’m headed to St Croix for the weekend. I won’t be putting in too much beach time because I am going to paint my condo at Colony Cove. I couldn’t find anyone else to do it………

There’s been so much going on lately.. I worked all weekend on the day shift.  (is that a cool photo or what?)  One of our major units is shut down for scheduled work and the rest of the refinery is just coasting.  There’s nothing to optimize, nothing to tweak, no way to squeeze a little…