In November 1997 I filed for a divorce with Beba. A marriage without both at least having the same religion could not last. Here I will cover the differences we had and my feelings of the way she did not look to God or worship God but rather paid all homage to the Virgin Mary.

I could never understand why she was so devout to the Virgin Mary but I never heard her praying to God. Mary was a pure woman in Gods eyes. He blessed her to be the bearer of the baby Jesus. Mary prayed to God for blessings and God blessed her. But no where have I ever seen it written in the holy books that I have read that we should honor her to the point of asking her to watch over us and provide for us as if she were God. But Beba would do just that. She would stand in fron of a picture we had bought of the Virgin and ask for blessings and for her to watch over. My belief is that Mary was just a woman and capable of sinning as any other woman. I believe that she was sinless since God blessed her with the birth of the Holy Man Jesus. But I do not believe that God blessed her with supernatural powers to work mircles or provide blessings after her death.

Beba had come up from Mexico while I was in Indonesia. She had already found pictures of Teti and a videotape I had made while in England that was very graphic. I told her I wanted a divorce but she did not want too. She said she loved me and that I should think about David. I told her I would stay at my mom's house. She did not like the idea, no matter what I had done. I found out later she had even showed my mom the video. My mom was on her side even though she did not really know her like I did. The next day she got a friend to take her to a lawyer to set up the divorce. Over the next few weeks we set up everything. Since we had not been officially separated for a year they set us up on a separation period of one year from December 1997. She was awarded everything I owned and between her alimony and David's child support a total of $2000 per month. This meant I was now paying $2400 after tax. I did not have much left to survive on. . I wanted to keep our son and care for him but the US government never gives custody of the children to the dad. I was given visitation rights to David but she would not let me see him unless she could be with me at all times. It was her way of not letting go of me. I continued to travel for that year making many trips to Indonesia. The court took the money from my check directly and sent it to her bank account. After about six months I changed the Job at Capsugel to a position that did not travel so much. My pay went in half to what it was with the overtime I got for traveling.
In January 1998 I organized and supervised the upgrade of our production machines in Thailand. I also organized a control project for the addition of two machines. Teti came over while I was there. After the project was completed I took a week of vacation. Teti and I went site seeing with one the technicians from the plant we went to his family's house about 6 hours from Bangkok. We had a good time and saw a different side of Thailand than that which you see in Bangkok, which reminds me of what Sodom, and Gomorrah was probably like.
In February 1998 I supervised the installation of two viscosity preparation stations in China.
In March and April 1998 I made one trip to China, Thailand, Indonesia, and Japan to upgrade earlier installations to latest developments in Greenwood. This included minor wiring changes, PC station, and PLC program upgrades.
In July 1998 a position came open in our state side Computer Integrated Manufacturing department. This department is responsible for the design of the control systems used in our production machines. I accepted the position as Project Technician. I was teamed with another engineer to develop a new control system for the capsule production machine. I did a cost comparison for the new design compared to the one we had been using until then. We utilized Profibus networking and the latest Siemens STEP 7 PLC.
After the year was completed I filed the final divorce papers. The judge did not change anything even though the present deductions from my check sometimes were exceeding my total pay.