Last weekend, we took a whirlwind trip to Houston to attend a retirement party for Audrey’s dad. Ron retired from ConocoPhillips after 36 years of dedicated service. We are very happy for him and proud of his accomplishments – foremost of which is staying with one company for so long and thriving through every up and down. (At one count, he said he had made it through about 20 layoffs)
I’ll admit, I’m a little jealous that he gets to sleep in as long as he wants every morning and work on whatever he wants all day with no deadlines looming and no manager hovering over his shoulder. Only 29 more years until I cross that threshold! 🙂
Congrats!
OK. Audrey will hate that I posted this picture cause it looks like Eli is on drugs, but I’m posting this because he had to have a visitor’s badge which he actually loathed wearing.
Name tag and hard hat!
This is where the magic all happened.
In case anyone gets lost, there is plenty of signage at ConocoPhillips.
One thing Ron enjoyed was playing basketball at work. In fact, he is so well known at the health center that he has already been offered a part time job, just so he can continue to play in pickup games.
On the last day of work, anything goes. Grandkids on the counter? No problem. What are you going to do, fire the guy???
A couple of future engineers whiteboarding a solution to the world’s problems.
A nice candid shot during story time at the restaurant.
Great looking group of nerds… errr… I mean engineers. (Hey, since I’m an engineer, I get to call names)
Eli trying on Papa’s hard hat.
Great photo of the whole family that was able to go to the party at his office. We were a little late, but still got to eat cake.
