Charles, Alice and I experimented with the city bus service on New Year’s Eve. Given the lack of parking on campus, I’m going to try the bus system for commuting this spring. It was an unnaturally nice day and with low traffic, I figured it would be a good time to try out the bus route.
Charles likes all things bus, truck and train, so he was up for riding on the bus. If all goes well, I’ll be able to pick him up from day care and we can take the bus home. Hopefully eventually Alice will go to the same daycare so we can all travel together. Charles watched everything with great attention just as he had on the train a few weeks back.
The bus was pretty empty. and it got us to the engineering campus pretty fast. So I guess the big question is how much variance there is in bus arrival time. In our neighborhood during commute times, the bus arrives every 30 minutes. The last time I rode the bus in Pittsburgh the bus also arrived at 30 minute intervals. Unfortunately, the probability of bus arrival was not related to the actual bus schedule, but instead was pretty flat. Hopefully it is a little bit better here.
Once we got there, we got lunch in campus town. Then we walked to my offce, where I had hopes of setting up my laptop on the network. Unfortunately, I was missing a key password, so I’ll need to figure it out at home this weekend or bug folks Monday. Charles immediately found the non-dry erase marker and started scribbling on the white board. Alice started looking for electrical outlets to cram her fingers into.
On the way back we walked through the park. There were several people flying pretty kites and some kids playing with a tethered giant purple spikey inflated soccer ball.