The Daily School Bus: Well, it didn't quite happen today

I got a bit into Squarespace 6 but a lot of confusing things happened, beginning with the fact that the instructional video would not play and Squarespace had no idea why. Squarespace did lead me to another very long video recording of an online Squarespace 6 workshop with quite a bit of good information. Before I could apply very much of it, Margie put Lynxton down for a long nap and then took off for a long time to do some shopping but Lynxton woke right back up and I had to care for him for a long time.

Now I must drive Margie and Lynxton to Anchorage. Then Margie and I will go to a movie and I afterward I will drop her off to babysit for the next couple of days and I will come home again.

Tomorrow. Tomorrow I will get this. I saw enough today to make me believe there are some real advantages in going with Squarespace 6, even beyond my daily phone posts. And I believe the phone post process will truly improve. I sure hope so.

The Daily School Bus: hopefully, this is the last time I will have to post using this technological Squarespace nightmare

We will soon find out if the Squarespace nightmare is truly over. As I have already noted, right after I got to Nuiqsut, I received an email from a Squarespace tech informing me that they were dropping the defective Squarespace 5 app I had been using to post my blog from my iPhone and are moving away from Squarespace 5 altogether. He informed me they have to Squarespace 6 iPhone apps they claim are very, very, good. I was given the option to start a new Squarespace 6 blog and to import this blog into it, or to start the new blog and keep this blog as a separate archived entity.

Either way, I was assured I would have amazing capabilities in the new apps to post on the fly from my phone. I could not make the transition while I was working in the field and so decided I would try it after I got home. Based on his assurance, I dropped my long-running Squarespace protest, illustrated each day with an image of the Daily School Bus. Tomorrow, Tuesday, is the day I have designated to give Squarespace 6 a try. I am hopeful, but not totally convinced. The tech said he would personally be there to help me every step of the way with whatever assistance I might need. He said to let him know when I was going to do it. So last night I sent him an email and told him it would be tomorrow. I have not heard back from him. For the moment, I am giving him the benefit of the doubt as there could be legitimate reasons – perhaps he has been off for the past couple of days, or maybe he has come down with the flu.

Lots of people seem to have come down with the flu.

This is the last post I will put up until after I have either succeeded or failed at making the transition - hopefully sometime tomorrow. Either way, my address will be the same. The option I am choosing to try is to import this blog into the new Squarespace 6 format and to keep the same URL. 

The Daily School Bus: The school day is over; maybe the Squarespace nightmare is over, too...

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?

The Daily School Bus: not from today – Sunday – but with a church in it

Once again, this being Sunday, I have not seen any schoolbuses rolling through the streets. So I fall back to a school bus image I shot Tuesday afternoon but held back until today. There is a chapel it, the Cornerstone Community Church, which makes it kind of appropriate for Sunday even though it was shot on Tuesday.

Text added at 3:18 PM. The Squarespace nightmare continues - day 57 and counting.

Three walkers seen on the way to Sam and Lee's

As I walk to get breakfast at Sam and Lee's at 9 AM, I see these three young people coming my way from the direction of the Assembly of God church. The wind has died down quite a bit from its peak last night but it is still breezy.

Text added at 10:31 AM. The Squarespace nightmare continues - day 57 and counting.