January 2010

First day back driving, and what kind of day is this ... A true miserable January day.

Plagued by snow squalls, not quite bad enough in my little area of the world to cancel all of our buses, the visibility was at times pretty low.

I really never mind driving in whatever weather... as long as I can see the road that is.

Thick fog or blowing snow most aways give me a headache, and I just as soon curl up with another hot coffee as bundle up to face down old mother nature on this kind of days.

But the kids were great this morning. Waiting for me, all bundled with pink noses showing and eager to tell of all the Christmas magic the holiday had had.

I love listening to the kids chatter, love listening to the telling of treasures and treats, hearing them compare notes, and giggling with each other... it's such a happy sound,... it even helps the headaches tone down... hmmmm

Happy New Year

Hi all, I haven't been here much, life got very complicated for me for a while, but I plan to bring you more school bus updates and news in this new year soon.

Meantime I hope everyone has had a safe and happy holiday.

Back To Work

Today is the first day back to school in our area, and all my kids were anxious to go back and happy to see me, all looked so nice dressed in there new clothes.

But it could be a week before I meet all my new JK's.

New this year are anti theft devices on all our buses.

I guess in some areas people may actually steal buses, but here ..????.

To me it seemed a huge waste of money to scrap the child checkmate system, in favor of the new system this year.

But the new anti theft device did give me a chuckle.

I was checking out the new system and was speciffically checking the new motion sensor, it did detected me moving around alright, and my bus thearteningly annouced "Please sit down and someone will be with you shortly"

It just cracked me up! Imagine a would be thief hearing something like that.

But I must admit that I think I had the silly thing in charter mode, because I have heard other buses tell people

"Your unlawfully on the premises, please leave at once, the authorities have been called"

Or maybe my bus is just extra polite..

Winding Down

Well the wages are settled, and as expected the raise was small. Maybe next year we can get a break.

As the school year is winding down the kids on the bus are winding up. All are looking forward to a great summer vacation. (me too)

The tourists are back in our area now and extra care needs to be taken as more drunk drivers occupy our roads.

Keep well all.