Taste of True Love


I entered the room
You were standing there
We looked through each other
Neither of us could care

Later we met
Introduced by friends
Exchanged pleasantries
Thought that would be the end

Such was not fate
For then we met once more
Our transparency fled
We could not ignore

The next time was for lunch
After that we had a date
Our attraction grew
And we called it fate

Our passions ignited
As young lovers do
You fell for me
I fell for you

Was it destiny?
Our love felt so strong
The only thing we knew
It could not be wrong

But then you met him
And I met her
Which came first?
It’s such a blur

Suddenly there was
No time for each other
Then we were labeled
“My former lover”

 

But still there was something
Neither could define
From lover to lover
On each other’s mind

One day we were adrift
Lost, alone in a crowd
We saw each other
Our hearts cried out loud

We tried to deny it
Pretended it was fake
We made love once more
For old times’ sake

That’s how it went
Each time we met
We would say aloud
After this, we’ll forget

The months passed
After those, the years
We loved no one else
Cried fewer tears

But neither did we
Acknowledge our heart
Loving one another
Yet still living apart

Now we are older
Our lifetimes, wasted
We could have had more
Of the love we once tasted

 

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I felt like writing a sad love poem, so there it is.

 

Sorry I missed posting yesterday.  Sixteen hours of overtime a week is tasty but does interfere with, well, a lot of things.  It also leaves me with less to write about on Nothing Day anyway.  Most significant thing is the arrival of my new monitor, which I like a lot.  I only have three issues, and two of those aren’t a problem with the monitor.

 

The one issue with the monitor is sometimes the power button won’t exactly work.  It’s an HP monitor, and some engineers apparently felt that somebody might accidentally hit the power button and cause a disaster.  So they put a “lockout” feature on it.  It doesn’t happen every time, but sometimes when I try to turn it off–and at least once when I tried to turn it on–I got a message saying “Power button lockout.”  The only way around it is to hold the power button for fifteen seconds or so.

 

Secondary to that but far more annoying is the inability of my second video card’s Displayport port to put out an image.  The new monitor has a Displayport input, but I couldn’t get an image using either that or an active Displayport to DVI adapter, the same kind of thing I am using with my first video card.  I have contacted ATI about this, but no response yet.

 

The third issue is a Windows thing.  If I play a video or put EQ on my new monitor, Windows decides it’s low on memory or something and turns off its eye candy mode.  I have mentioned this issue before, but am getting more annoyed with it.  Time to contact Microsoft, I guess.  I have installed SP1, but apparently this is an SP which doesn’t actually fix anything, it’s mostly just a collection of the patches to Windows 7 since its release.  Bah.

 

One last bit:  I was remoted into my home computer a couple of days ago from work earlier this week.  It was Password Change day, so I was changing all of my home passwords.  This included my router password.  A co-worker happened to walk past as I was closing out of the router’s screen, and he mentioned something interesting.  There’s some freeware out there which is designed to enhance a router’s functionality.  I found what he was talking about easy enough and downloaded the version for my router.  There is, of course, the possibility this will “brick” my router–make it non-functional–so I have not yet tried it.  I waited until today as today is my day off.  If it turns out to be a bad idea, I can go get a new router and not be offline for more than an hour or so.  I’ll let you know next week how it works out.

 

Enough rambling for this week, then.  See you Monday.