The Daily School Bus: The school day is over; maybe the Squarespace nightmare is over, too...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 4:27PM 
The school day is over. I stop and wait as students get off the bus and head for home. About 3:30 PM. The sun may be down for good for a couple of months, but arctic twilight lingers.
This may be my only post today. Busy. A bit behind.
Text added at 5:01 PM. After 59 days, the Squarespace nightmare may be over. I got an email from Squarespace today. If it is over, its effects will continue to follow me at least until I return to Wasilla and find some time to figure out both how to upgrade to the new Squarespace platform and to decide if I want to. They are not fixing their defective app, but rather are introducing new apps compatible with their new platform, Squarespace 6, and will be dropping Squarespace 5, which this blog is built on, along with the iPhone app that went with it, that created this gigantic nightmare for me.
In the meantime, I will keep photographing The Daily School Bus, but no longer as a protest against Squarespace. I have always enjoyed getting a snap of the occassional school bus, but now, as irritated as I have been with Squarespace, I have enjoyed the challenge and fun of photographing a school bus every day, so I will keep doing it - at least to the Christmas holiday season. In three weeks, Margie and I plan to go to Arizona - first to Phoenix, where the airplane will drop us off and then on to her and my children's White Mountain Apache Reservation.
We will make a quick trip to Salt Lake City to see my brother, sister and some other relatives and then back to Arizona and into the Navajo Nation, where Lavina's family will host a traditional blessing ceremony for Jacob, Lavina and children and we will all participate. So I can't stop this project until I get school buses in all these places. It just won't be a protest anymore, but a project.
Maybe I'll make an iBook on Instagrams of The Daily School Bus. Even a real paper book would be fun, but what publisher would ever publish it for me? And where would I find the time?
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