This morning my commute utterly sucked. There was a bomb scare in downtown Seattle at the Federal building. Some idiot had left a package next to the mailboxes. Police described it later as a "canvas bag inside a plastic bag." So even the original story wasn't right: this was just some homeless person's forgotten cast-off.

It completely shut down all traffic around the Federal building, which means shutting down 1st & Western Aves, from around 6am to 8am. That created a horrific snarl and redirected buses off their route, including mine. I had to walk around the damn scene, up two blocks and over, to catch my bus to the office. I was a half hour late.

Set of six photos here.

Tags: commute, life, seattle
Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Silver Lining, Castaways