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Monday
Nov182013

The Daily School Bus: A most perplexing situation

It was 4 PM, afternoon coffee break time for me and I had just stepped out of the coffee shop to the right of the screen. I had a hot Americano in one hand and in the other my gloves and ear band. My iPhone was in my right back pocket. And there was my daily school bus, parked right there at the corner and a kid had just stepped off of it! But my hands were full and there was no place to set anything down!

Somehow, I managed to stuff my gloves and ear protector into the crook of my left arm and kept my coffee in my left hand, yanked my phone out of my hip pocket, turned it on and activated the camera with one hand and thumb and then managed to get off three snaps before the bus disappeared. This is the third. The first two show the bus better, but I prefer this because of the chilled smoke curling up behind the stop sign. Plus, you can see the ASRC building – home of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, the most financially successful of all The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act regional corporations.

 

Text added at 5:41 PM. The Squarespace nightmare continues - day 58 and counting.

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