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this room has never felt so empty as it does when you leave
too dangerous, to walk around like this with my heart on my sleeve.
i wish you'd walk back through that door and stay forever
wrap those arms around me, and let go... never.
i hear the crackling of a smoldering ember
after i've gone, will you really remember?
-or will you forget those times we've shared
...so brief in truth- they seem so spare.

i want to give you everything
i said i'd give you anything
up to half my kingdom
up to half my kingdom.
i guess i'm not ready to give it all
until you prove your heart is true
and i know you won't betray me.

you think you're the blockage of my inspiration
-that couldn't be further from true.
the fact is, these feeble verses
are far too much beneath you
and it's been such a long time since i've felt so alone
and it's all because of you.
and after you leave
every song is a sad one.

the silence descends
like a curtain of darkness
heavy
weighted with the overbearing
mass of all i've left unsaid
pressing on my chest
like a vise
or maybe i'm just being melodramatic.

Non-obfuscated Contemporary Vernacular Lingua Franca of Modern Times, sans Redundancy

In honor of this link: http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/ which I received via email yesterday from my friend Heather, I'm pasting in the man page from the VIOS command "seastat" (I swear I am directly copying and pasting the man page!:

Description



The seastat command generates a report to view, per client, shared
ethernet adapter statistics. To gather network statistics at a per-
client level, advanced accounting can be enabled on the Shared Ethernet
Adapter to provide more information about its network traffic. To
enable per-client statistics, the VIOS administrator can set the Shared
Ethernet Adapter accounting attribute to enabled. The default value is
disabled. When advanced accounting is enabled, the Shared Ethernet
Adapter keeps track of the hardware (MAC) addresses of all of the
packets it receives from the LPAR clients, and increments packet and
byte counts for each client independently. After advanced accounting is
enabled on the Shared Ethernet Adapter, the VIOS administrator can
generate a report to view per-client statistics by running the seastat
command. Note: Advanced accounting must be enabled on the Shared
Ethernet Adapter before the seastat command can print any statistics.

Wow. I'm afraid, all I can say is- wow. *heavy sigh*

There's just one thing I'm really not sure about, though... In order to use the seastat command to view per-client SEA statistics, do I need to enable advanced accounting????
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