"When We Were Young"

Due to overwhelming requests, I will start posting some of my writings. I will begin with some lyrics. This was written in an emotional adolescent stupor, but I managed to polish some of the lyrics to give it some hidden meaning.

When We Were Young

Rolling over, head over heels, with you
In fields of green all day.
I'm taking over, taking charge, gonna
Live life my own way.

When you and I were young...
Have I lost sight of whom you've become?
You were my best friend and I trusted you
Till the end.

If we were meant to be, then why'd you run away from me?
I'm sorry I burned you last night.
My curiosity has surely gotten the best of me.
And now I'm left with your sight.
TRUST IN ME.

Sprouting wings, gaining strength, I fly away- you're in dismay.
We disagree, you were content, but now I'm spent and
You're still in love with me.
I used to believe "It's better to have loved and lost,"
But I never subtracted the cost.
YOU SHOULD ACCEPT ME
As your marginal loss- no, I'm not worth the cost.

If we were meant to be, then why'd you run away from me?
I'm sorry I burned you last night.
My curiosity has surely gotten the best of me.
And now I'm left with your sight.
TRUST IN ME.

You're a casualty. Not the one for me.
You were hit by arrows. You were hit by Eros' arrows,
When you and I were young.

The idea was to create a landscape of mixed emotions and confusion. My intentions were to have the verses reflect one point of view of a relationship, and the choruses would come from the opposite member of the relationship. I produced some parallels to the story of Eros and Psyche in the song.

Alexander Hamilton

A recent biography of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow is my current reading. Chernow does a wonderful job of painting a vivid potrait of the founding father, who overcame many obstacles and accomplished much before even becoming the Secretary of Treasury for the United States.

AIM as adware

AIM force-installing spyware

I was only slightly surprised to see information on this. I was very impressed that AIM had remained "free" all these years and that it reportedly had more features than AOL itself (source: roommate Matt). Now- not so impressed. Really, the article is all that is needed here... I make no other comments except that I have eradicated AIM from my machine and installed Trillian. Very sleek program, good options, reliable- it allows one to access Yahoo messenger, MSN messenger, and AIM and other servers- and it's a free download. It comes highly recommended... and while I'm at it, I should recommend Mozilla internet browser. Good Stuff.