The company I worked for, Traylor Coatings, made special paints and coatings for all sorts of exotic applications. Some of the mixtures were benign an... nothing particularly special except that our objective in the plant was to produce a consistent product. If you ordered a particular formula with a particular color, our responsibility was to see that it was the same every time. Hence the need for sophisticated additive and mixing equipment.Some of our products were toxic. They contained various. ”“But… why me?”“Jake, please. You’re a sweet guy, and you saved my ass tonight! I just want to repay you properly for that,” she said, placing a hand on his cheek.Laying his hand on hers, he replied, “You don’t owe me anything.”“Fair enough. All the same, you get my motor running, Jake,” Selina said, licking her lips. “You treat me like you know I’ve got a brain, and you’re fucking fearless in a real fight! Believe me, right now, what I want… is you.”Jake was helpless to protest any. But, for what it’s worth, I want you to know that the love is still there and always will be, Come What May, as the song goes. Finding a suitable card to mark your 55th birthday has been nigh impossible. It seems ridiculous and inane to wish “Happy birthday” etc but I do hope you make the best of it as you can - and the days that follow. As we’ve said many times, the fates dealt us a strange hand and it’s rather ironic that this reunion of ours all started with my “thin and ill” Facebook. As Canadians, we were our usual over-polite selves. We met them at the ship’s brow, where they would receive a tour guide. That guide would then take the Chinese inside the ship and give them a comprehensive tour. Each compartment had a subject matter expert. My job was to give them a tour of the Machinery Control Room, and via video cameras hard mounted in the engine spaces, I showed them the machinery spaces as well.I did say our ship was an old piece of shit, but in other ways, it was a work.