AUTHOR’S PREFACE

In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names’ ending in OS and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them.

A short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV, I stumbled by chance upon the Memoirs of M. d’Artagnan, printed–as were most of the works of that period, in which authors could not tell the truth without the risk of a residence, more or less long, in the Bastille–at Amsterdam, by Pierre Rouge. The title attracted me; I took them home with me, with the permission of the guardian, and devoured them.

It is not my intention here to enter into an analysis of this curious work; and I shall satisfy myself with referring such of my readers as appreciate the pictures of the period to its pages. They will therein find portraits penciled by the hand of a master; and although these squibs may be, for the most part, traced upon the doors of barracks and the walls of cabarets, they will not find the likenesses of Louis XIII, Anne of Austria, Richelieu, Mazarin, and the courtiers of the period, less faithful than in the history of M. Anquetil.

But, it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers. Now, while admiring, as others doubtless will admire, the details we have to relate, our main preoccupation concerned a matter to which no one before ourselves had given a thought.

D’Artagnan relates that on his first visit to M. de Treville, captain of the king’s Musketeers, he met in the antechamber three young men, serving in the illustrious corps into which he was soliciting the honor of being received, bearing the names of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.

We must confess these three strange names struck us; and it immediately occurred to us that they were but pseudonyms, under which d’Artagnan had disguised names perhaps illustrious, or else that the bearers of these borrowed names had themselves chosen them on the day in which, from caprice, discontent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple Musketeer’s uniform.

From the moment we had no rest till we could find some trace in contemporary works of these extraordinary names which had so strongly awakened our curiosity.

The catalogue alone of the books we read with this object would fill a whole chapter, which, although it might be very instructive, would certainly afford our readers but little amusement. It will suffice, then, to tell them that at the moment at which, discouraged by so many fruitless investigations, we were about to abandon our search, we at length found, guided by the counsels of our illustrious friend Paulin Paris, a manuscript in folio, endorsed 4772 or 4773, we do not recollect which, having for title, “Memoirs of the Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement of the Reign of King Louis XIV.”

It may be easily imagined how great was our joy when, in turning over this manuscript, our last hope, we found at the twentieth page the name of Athos, at the twenty-seventh the name of Porthos, and at the thirty-first the name of Aramis.

The discovery of a completely unknown manuscript at a period in which historical science is carried to such a high degree appeared almost miraculous. We hastened, therefore, to obtain permission to print it, with the view of presenting ourselves someday with the pack of others at the doors of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, if we should not succeed–a very probable thing, by the by–in gaining admission to the Academie Francaise with our own proper pack. This permission, we feel bound to say, was graciously granted; which compels us here to give a public contradiction to the slanderers who pretend that we live under a government but moderately indulgent to men of letters.

Now, this is the first part of this precious manuscript which we offer to our readers, restoring it to the title which belongs to it, and entering into an engagement that if (of which we have no doubt) this first part should obtain the success it merits, we will publish the second immediately.

In the meanwhile, as the godfather is a second father, we beg the reader to lay to our account, and not to that of the Comte de la Fere, the pleasure or the ENNUI he may experience.

This being understood, let us proceed with our history.

P R E F A C E

MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual–he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture.

The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story–that is to say, thirty or forty years ago.

Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.

THE AUTHOR.

HARTFORD, 1876.

 Storage Tank.

Volume of a small tank may be half or  1 cubic meter, but in the tank farm for petroleum  it can be thousands cubic meter. Geometrically, storage tank designed as cylindrical, spherical or cubical. To prevent liquid inside tank from rain water, tank need roof. There are 2 type of large cylindrical tank roof. Fix roof as conical or dome roof  and floating type roof. Floating roof will eliminate or minimize volume of vapor of liquid to be stored such as gasoline. Floating roof is equipped with flexible hose to prevent accumulated rain water on the roof and flows it to ground through nozzle. But sometime, fix roof also combined with floating deck. The purpose of floating deck is similar with floating roof to minimize volume of vapor. This fixed roof shall have adequate ventilation to prevent accumulation of vapor in between floating deck to roof in case of any leakage from floating roof, even small.

In medium capacity, storage tank made from nonmetal such as GRP or steel depend on the services. Large capacity storage tank made from steel and painted except stainless steel. For hydrocarbon services, storage tank designed as per standard such as API. API-650 Welded Tanks for Oil Storage and API 620 Design and Construction of Large, Welded, Low Pressure Storage Tanks.

A lot of variable shall be used in mechanical design for tank, such as liquid specific gravity, maximum liquid level, tank high, tank diameter, material specification to be used, fabrication and inspection method, roof type, effect of wind and effect of earthquake. Those variables are covered in API 650. If we have familiar and well known to use each variable on excel sheet, than we can also use software such as E-tank to make work easier.

Large storage tank as per API 650 constructed at field. This tank made from prefabricated steel plates. Prefabrication of steel plate may be at shop or at field. One by one of prefabricated plates to be lifted by crane and then to be fitted and welded until to the top of tank shell. Tank roof also made and constructed similar with the tank shell, but need temporary support before roof is completed.

VESSEL

Vessel is general term as closed space and quite large volume, such as ship or cargo box. But in this case, vessel is a pressurized closed space with steel wall or other strong materials. If there is nothing inside except fluid to be serviced itself without any reaction when operate, this process equipment named drum. If there are any reaction when operate, named reactor or exchanger. If there are exchanger tubes inside and will be any heat exchange, named heat exchanger or cooler and if there is catalyst inside and will be any chemical reaction, named reactor, reformer or converter. Name of equipment based on it service or function of process equipment in the plant.   

Process equipment wall that made from cylindrical vessel will contain shell and head or cover at both end of shell. Head or cover may be designed in flat, spherical or elliptical shape. Usually, elliptical head is most preferable because of cost reason. In access to other equipment, vessel is equipped with holes and pipes inserted to wall that named nozzle and for accessing human into vessel, there is manhole with its cover. 

Due to there effect for human and environment, vessel or pressure vessel must be designed, fabricated and inspected follow the codes such as ASME VIII. Design pressure of vessel varies from a kg/cm2 until hundreds kg/cm2. Quite a lot of variables must be use to determine shell and head thickness such as pressure, temperature, material specification, diameter, joining method, inspection method that has covered in the codes.

Vessels need support and fixed to the concrete foundation by anchors bolts or bolted to steel structure. Vertical vessel that installed on the ground usually supported by skirt and for light vessel supported by steel legs and where vessel installed on steel structure supported by lugs or wings. Skirt is made from steel plate with diameter same as vessel diameter. Wind and earthquake factor and any holes on the tall vessel skirt shall be taken account in the design. Buckling effect shall be considered for steel leg support design. Horizontal vessel usually supported by saddles that made from steel plates.

 Piping

In process plant, fluid flows through pipes from one equipment to each other, except flows through open channel such as drainage or sewer. Pipe is connected to equipment and piping system components by flanges, welded or threaded. There are some piping system components; pipe itself, pipe fittings, flanges, valves, strainers, pipe supports, spring support or spring hanger.

Piping design shall be accordance with codes and standards such as ANSI/ASME. For example ANSI/ASME B31.1 Power Piping, ANSI/ASME B31.3 Process Piping, ANSI/ASME B31.8 Gas Transmission and Distribution Piping System and other standard or code for other purpose piping system. Pipe material specification, diameter and thickness of pipe, pipe fittings and valves are has standardized such as in ANSI standards.

Similar with vessel design, there are variables that must be considered in thickness calculation such as pressure, temperature, selected diameter, material specification, joining method, inspection method, piping system purpose that has been covered in the codes. If there are high differences between operating temperature and ambient temperature, pipes will expand and will produce external force and moment in the pipe itself . This additional force and moment will add more stress to pipes if pipe route, pipe support type and arrangement are too rigid. Weight of liquid flows in pipe and weight of pipe itself will also produce bending moment, that mean there is additional stress to pipe. We have to consider those additional stress by selecting and arrange pipe support so that pipe stress shall not higher than calculated stress by codes. For complex piping route, using software will be helpful such as Caesar II. When necessary, pipe hanger or spring support is a choice as flexible support mainly in vertical movement of pipe.

Pump

The purpose of pump to deliver liquid from one place to other place or from one equipment to other equipment in different elevation or in different pressure. There are some type of pump mostly used : reciprocating pump, gear pump, screw pump, diaphragm pump and centrifugal pump.

Reciprocating and gear pump are categorized as positive displacement pump. In positive displacement pump, delivered liquid can not be stopped. When delivered liquid is stopped, in very short period there will be any damages either part of driver, part of pump itself or part of equipment at downstream of the pump whichever is weak. To protect equipment parts from damages, system shall be completed with trip control or pressure releasing equipment such as relieve valve. The advantage of positive displacement pump is almost unlimited discharge pressure, but capacity is limited.

Centrifugal pump is most popular. From home as water pump, fire fighting system to industries. Centrifugal pump is divided into several name based on how impeller handle the liquid. When the liquid flows in axial direction through impeller, named axial pump. When the liquid flows in radial direction through impeller, named centrifugal pump. When liquid flows in between axial and radial direction, named mixed flow pump. To lift up head as specified by process requirement, number of impeller can be more than one in one casing, named multistage centrifugal pump.

Pump design has been standardized by national standards, such as API 610 Centrifugal Pump for General Refinery Services, API 674 Positive Displacement Pumps-Reciprocating, API 675 Positive Displacement Pumps-Controlled Volume and ANSI standards.

 Which appropriate pump type shall be use? It will depend on process requirements. Main variable to be used for selecting pump type are capacity and differential pressure or head. Following chart presents operating range of centrifugal pump. This chart is only for single pump and does not for high speed pump. When necessary, parallel operation is commonly used in process plant.

Pump powered by driver such as electric motor, turbine or engine. Electric motor rotate at constant speed, but turbine and engine have adjustable speed. Selection of driver is depend to total power balance in the plant. If there is a lot of steam as side product, we can use steam turbine. If there is no steam or very limited steam, we can use electric motor. And if there is no steam and electric power we can use diesel engine or gas engine which ever is available.

Pump rotated by driver through coupling. But for small pump, impeller may be directly mounted to motor shaft and pump casing mounted to motor casing. If operating speed of pump should less than driver speed, reducing gear shall be installed between them.

The purpose of compressor is compress gas, air or refrigerant from lower pressure to higher pressure and deliver gas from one equipment or place to other equipment. Almost similar with pump, there are some type of compressor such as centrifugal compressor, reciprocating compressor, and screw compressor. The differences between pump and compressor, pump handles liquid as incompressible fluid and compressor handles gas as compressible fluid. Ratio of specific gravity (SG) between gas and liquid at atmospheric pressure is around 1/1000.

In the reciprocating compressor, gas is compressed by piston inside cylinder from large volume to smaller volume. Pistons sealed with piston rings. Gas into cylinder and gas out from cylinder controlled by one way valves. In screw compressor, gas is compressed continuously by two precision screw with opposite rotation. Screws sealed with oil for steel screws. In the centrifugal compressor, gas as a mass rotated through impeller and compressed due to centrifugal force to discharge side. Between impeller to impeller and between impeller to ambient sealed with labyrinth, carbon ring, oil seal or gas seal.  

In practical, centrifugal compressor is multistage impeller arranged in one casing or two casing. There is also centrifugal compressor that has some impeller with difference speed mounted in one large gear casing, named Integrally Geared Centrifugal Compressor. Reciprocating compressor also divided into more than one piston or stages. Power from driver or between stages is delivered through coupling with or without reduction gear.

Compressors also have been standardized as minimum requirement such as API 617 Centrifugal Compressor for General Refinery Service, API 618 Reciprocating Compressor for General Refinery Service , API 672 Packaged, Integrally Centrifugal Plant and Instrument Air Compressor for General Refinery Services, API 619 Rotary-Type Positive Displacement Compressor for General Refinery Services.

The purpose of steam turbine is drive rotating equipment such as pumps, compressors, blowers. Power of steam turbine come from steam where flows through turbine blades and convert the thermal energy to mechanical energy. Decreasing steam pressure or expanding steam volume will decrease the enthalpy or release thermal energy become kinetic energy through nozzle or stationary blades. Kinetic energy to be transfer to turbine blades become mechanical energy through rotor. If steam expanded at nozzle in the front of moving blades and no pressure drop in moving blades, named impulse turbine or Rateau turbine. If steam expanded at both stationary blades and moving blades, named Reaction turbine. And if one nozzle for two Rateau stage which split by stationary blades as flow direction without any pressure drop across stationary  blades, named Curtis turbine.

 In practical, single Curtis turbine applies up to about 2000 kW of power and multistage steam turbine which is combination between Curtis+Rateau stages or Curtis+Rateau stages+Reaction stages or Rateau stages+Reaction stages are available from about 1000 kW up to more than 50 MW for Industrial and up to several hundred MW for Power Plant.

Steam turbines also have been standardized by national standard such as API 611 General Purpose Steam Turbine for Refinery Services and API 612 Special Purpose Steam Turbine for Refinery Services.

I go write some text here. For someone in mind. But readable to all. Can become painful, boyish, or plain embarrassing.

In the meantime I want to focus on development, myself, my programming, my surrounding

Preface: Awake

So there I was. About to walk down that aisle, with all my friends and family watching with wide eyes and admiration. though i felt that at any second something bad would surely happen. it had to. wasnt that the way the natural order went? no matter how happy you get, bad things always happen when your happy. and i was very happy, wasnt I?  knowing that someone was here for me, ready to spend forever with me. knowing all about my past and still, not running in the opposite direction as the altar. I couldnt breathe, standing behind the huge church doors waiting to meet my destiny. or maybe it was my  dress, maybe mom had laced it a little too tight. ” you ok kid?” my dad said. ” you waited til the last minute to get cold feet, just like you.” he laughed, and i remembered that no matter how distant we’ve been since i was a child, that laugh always lightened up the mood.” well, if your gonna run, you better run now.” he said. and i shook my head letting him know i was ready to do this. And i was.Julian loved me, and I love him. there was no doubt about that. ” its just, so awkward walking down that aisle  with everyone ive ever known staring up at me.” i said. those people who used to judge me, and stare when things happened. When almost all of my friends left me when Owen had kept me from them. Except Abby. Shes always been by my side. like a second sister. my twin. ” Amelia, you’re my best friend, i should have seen that coming and i should have at least tried to stop it. i swear ill never leave your side for as long as i live.” i can remember her saying that night in the hospital. it seems like a lifetime ago all that happened.  i was brought out of my daydream by my dad shaking me, and i could hear the music start to play. ” are you ready?” my dad said. ” if my dress wasnt so tight, my heart would probably jump out of my chest right now.” i said my voice shaking.  as the doors opened, and i walked across the thresh hold i realized that in just a few moments i wouldnt be Amelia Katherine Hamlin anymore. i would be Mrs. Julian Mills. and i felt a smile appear on my face. all my life id had it bad, i lived in a nightmare. but now, looking at him  up there waiting for me, ive finally awaken, and my life starts right now.

I’ve dated.  No scratch that. I’ve had relationships. Nope not that either. Ok I’ve been in situations with persons of the opposite sex that have not been platonic, but neither have they been “intimate.”  I guess really my “dating life” has been an experiment in decisions, be they good or bad.  For most of them, the actual process started off much like a roller coaster – slow at first, then rapidly going downhill very quickly.  My friends, have provided numerous ears to bend and shoulders to lean on, while in return, I provided them with hours of ridiculous tales of bizarre relationship, non-relationships that ultimately go horribly awry.

Through the majority of these experiences, I have figured out how not to put out, but still pick dessert.  Which, in a way is akin to having your cake and eating it too.  Although, that would mean I actually ended up in decent relationships, well, which is not the case.  Let’s just put it this way, I’ve managed to continue to walk the minefield of singledom without losing a limb and every once in a while, I at least get to pick the dessert.

from the Reformation to the Beginning of the Reign of King George I, by Thomas Crosby

As noted in a previous post, I have been reading ‘The History of the English Baptists from the Reformation to the Beginning of the Reign of King George I,’ by Thomas Crosby. I have also been adding this work to my website (a link to this book appears at the end of this post).

I have now completed reading and adding the preface, table of contents and part of the first chapter.

The preface covers the period from the early church through to the first Baptists in England, tracing the origins of the Baptists and disproving their rise to that of the Anabaptists at Munster and the disaster that occurred in that city as a result of the Anabaptist rebellion.

Though a lengthy preface, it briefly touches on such as the Albigenses, the Waldenses, Wickcliff, Donatists, etc. Crosby goes back through history, from the reformation to the first century finding evidence of Baptistic beliefs and practices. It is a very interesting study, even though it is brief. Another interesting aspect of this study is the evidence for early Baptistic existence, even in the writings of Paedobaptist authors and the evidence against the early practice of infant-baptism in the early church.

To read the preface and further, please follow the link below:

http://particularbaptist.com/library/Crossby-Thomas_Vol1_HistoryEnglishBaptists_contents.html

I’m beginning my system tomorrow morning, starting with the “morning pages” I’ve just finished reading up on.

Meantime, I’m dead tired. G’night, all.

The story of “My Way 2 Oslo – The Diary of a Truth” is about a young man who has drawn a picture of his future in Oslo with the girl he fell in love with. The reality he lives in today is covered by experiences with people who were untruthful, who were betraying him or even abused his tries to survive in the concrete jungle of Athens for their own wealth. Athens – the city where every man and woman has a story to tell either full of sadness, cruelty and dark pictures with a lack of hope for better days to come or stories with a shining surface, impressive in their nature, adurned by a brushstroke of hipocrisy – has been his home for the last three years. Realizing today that during those three years he had neither made a step forward nor a step backwards he finds himself surrounded by an abyss believing in a love that blossoms over a distance of 1608 miles that could give him the wings and the strength to overcome the gap between the point of nowhere and the settlement of his heart. This is where the story begins…

A/N: This will be the prelude of what is to come. AKA my dress diary for my Lady Gaga costume.

I have always been against dressing up as a celebrity for Halloween. Instead I’ve been pro-creativity even though creativity ends up with guys walking around in penis costumes or bloody pads with bloody tampon nun-chucks at its worst. [Wtfcostumes.com will show you the best and the worst of homemade creative Halloween costumes] But this year I find myself finding myself being a hypocrite.

It has been decided.

I am going to be a Lady Gaga doll with ethnicity issues.

Why Lady Gaga? Why not be Lady Gaga? Since she, originally a brunette, stepped onto the scene she has been shocking the world with her fashion sense that is both futuristic but twistedly retro. Some people love it and adore it while others would rather spend the night literally vomitting up their own intestines then see her walk around in stockings and leotards…AGAIN. I personally find favor in it and the range gives the person impersonating her this Halloween incredible room to move around. If you don’t know what I mean Google Image ‘Lady Gaga’ or better yet ‘Lady Gaga Fashion’ and though there are repeats the more pages you visit the more you discover.

Pool Explorer Lady Gaga from her video 'Poker Face'Dominatrix Lady Gaga

Just to feature a pair. Lady Gaga is the new Barbie in the variety of outfits she wears. So why not try your hand at being her?

I mean when else can you walk in public without pants?

Preface 02

Management and Managers

First of all I do think that we should be more positive about the role and functions, managers[1] fulfil in our society. How broad or small we define their roles, from Obama to the manager in a small tobacco shop, from an owner of Tata Steel to an owner of bike repair shop, they invest a lot of ideas, energy, time and sometimes money in what they are doing.

Of course it is true that a group of managers made a mess of the world’s economy and of course it is true that the most poor people in this world have to pay for it, but is also true that they operated in a system for which we are all responsible.

But it is also true that a lot of the Managers lost a lot of money and/or their job. And it is also true that we will also need them to accelerate the process of recovery.

I am, though, not positive about a general change of the attitudes to the existing systems of world economics and finance. And also not about de role some managers play, again, in it. Already now[2] it is clear that for a small part of the Western Managers the road for executing their greed has been reopened already. There are already signs that Wall Street is taken up their old habit of squeezing out other people.

What is it that makes, at least some of them, to behave like hungry animals of which their greed for money seems unstoppable?

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Sterling Codifiers, Inc., began supplementation of this code in 2005.

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When God removed Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, He left them with a promise that imbued Hope.  Permeated with this Hope, mankind looked forward to a time where a Savior would come and crush the head of the serpent (Genesis 3:15).  Over time, this has been expanded to include the triumph of good over evil, thus banishing evil from this world and from the hearts of humankind altogether.  Can you imagine no more conquerors, ruthless dictators, oppressive regimes or well-meaning politicians that play into the hands of those that wish to dominate society through various other power structures?  The simple answer is “Yes.”  We can all identify with the desire for peace, prosperity and happiness.

For centuries, mankind has waited for God to fulfill His promise.  Through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God has fulfilled the promise He made in the Garden of Eden.  While Jesus was not what many had hoped for in a Savior, He did provide the fulfillment of God’s promise in the garden.  And more than that, God promised all, who believe in Jesus as their Savior and Lord, eternal life.  This eternal life is one that not one of us could possibly imagine (1 Corinthians 2:9).

This eternal life that Jesus promised is the eternal Hope that keeps mankind moving forward in the Church today.  The Church encourages all to come, repent and join the fight against evil, both within and without, and to continue to look past the dull gray horizon of today’s world to the great eternal peace in a new heaven and new earth (2 Peter 3:13, Rev 21:1), where there is no darkness, no blemish, no hatred, no stealing – no sin.  It is a place where tears are forgotten and sin is extinguished; a place where rot is never seen and joy fills the streets; a place where God is Lord and His light fills every moment, a place where love is truly known, experienced and shared.  That time is coming.

If you haven’t enlisted the time to dwell on these matters in a while, take up this blog and give it some of your time.  Hope is a powerful thing.  It helps us to endure, press on and change our lives and our world, not only for us but also for those that we love.  If you have lost hope recently, or have shelved it for some time, take the time to rediscover what it is that enables you to endure all things and strive to improve tomorrow.

THIS IS A FICTIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

THESE STORIES ARE ALMOST ENTIRELY FICTIONAL. ANYTHING THAT ISN’T FICTIONAL HAS BEEN HIGHLY FICTIONALIZED. MOST OF IT IS BASED OFF REAL STUFF, BUT NOT ALL OF IT, AND THE STUFF THAT IS HAS BEEN HIGHLY FICTIONALIZED ANYWAY, LIKE I ALREADY SAID.

My life is pretty cool! Trust me on this one! For instance: did you know that I have no sense of smell? It’s a rare disability, but one that unfortunately does not qualify me for a handicapped parking sticker. I have only seen somebody else with this disability one other time and it was John C. Reilly’s character in the movie Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. It was not a very good movie but I certainly related to Dewey Cox on account of how he had the same disability as me. One person I met told me that they also were missing a sense of smell but I didn’t believe them which is ironic since I myself have spent a good deal of time trying to convince people that I actually do not have a sense of smell!

These stories are an autobiographical work of fiction – a monster of lies and truths blended seamlessly side-by-side with no hopes of distinguishing between the two. I’d like to get that out of the way right now so that Oprah doesn’t get all up on my ass later down the road. I think that my life is probably interesting enough to write about without making huge boatloads of shit up just to amuse the masses, but where’s the fun in that? Plus, it’s been done. Nobody wants to read autobiographies, anyway! I mean, only nerds and fags even know what an autobiography is! (I have nothing against fags – in fact I would totally down a cock milkshake if only to see what it’s like – and I am well aware that I am not making any friends by calling you fags nerds!)

I am sorry about how I just called you a nerd/fag! I probably didn’t mean it, and if I did at least I apologized. I would really appreciate it if you just let bygones be bygones and read these stories. They’re really good! Maybe! A lot of it is made up but also a lot of it is true so it is kind of interesting to try and figure out what the whole deal is with everything! Thank you!

                                       Your secret admirer,
                                                                     Alec