Pushing Buttons, mp3 slam poetry by Big Poppa E.

(Also, we didn't get the house.)

We weren't able to get the last one we looked at, but yesterday we saw another. I like it. I don't think I'm morbid. In both cases, the houses themselves were compelling, though for different reasons.

First, the cemetery. A person wouldn't even know it it was there; we knew there was a nice gated driveway going off into the woods, but that's all. It doesn't say "cemetery" or anything. The entrance to it is next to the house, right on the other side of the property line; it goes between two stone pillars and down a long private avenue through shady, untamed woods, until it opens out into the manicured, monument-dotted lawns a person expects of a well-kept graveyard. It's a good final resting place.

And it would be like having a quiet park that we wouldn't have to maintain, but could enjoy.


That's Levi Knight Fuller, who was governor of Vermont from 1892-1894. He died two years later: "A dedicated scientist, a faithful citizen, a loyal friend, and a true Christian."



The house is a big one, a century old with a slate roof. It had been divided into a two-family dwelling, then converted back into a single-family; we'd make half of it back into a rental again. There's also a smallish barn in back (with the diamond-shaped window) that could be converted into another dwelling as well.

The front house is one unit; there's a back house—presumably the original structure—behind it, with gables. That's another unit. Between the back house and the barn there's two covered parking stalls. Everything is all connected together; practically, it's one building.

It's within walking distance to work and downtown... and—Bonus!—another cemetery up the road a couple blocks.

But sometimes a person like me needs to grasp at whatever they can to feel a little smug now and then. It's pathetic, really.

On potkettleblog, December 21, 2002: AlphaSmart 3000 "I'm getting really really interested in this thing..."

On potkettleblog, June 11, 2004: Sneak attack on Rodney "I'm pecking this out on the AlphaSmart on the ride back."

On Boing Boing, August 31, 2004: Keyboard with 512k of memory, 700h battery life "The AlphaSmart Neo is a full-sized keyboard with a little LCD screen on the top. It acts as a word-processor, letting you type into its 512k cache while it draws power from 3 AA batteries. When you get back to your Mac or PC, you just dump the text over USB or IR. The thing runs for 700 hours on a 3 AA batts..."