Grand Staircase Escalante

I have a poster in my office of ‘The Grand Staircase Escalante’. Occasionally my work Mom will come over and we will sit in our chairs facing the poster and take a mini vacation of sorts. It’s a small thing that sometimes keeps me from tipping over the edge of insanity.



Today, we were having a meeting and someone at the meeting made a reference to ‘circling the wagons’. I, to this day, have no idea what the hell that means. Circle the wagons? Is it like, ‘Get your ducks in a row’? I don’t know.



After the meeting, work mammy sent me an email that said.



“Is stairway escalade free of ambushes for wagons?”



I sat and stared at my computer for about two minutes thinking about this not knowing what it meant.



Turns out, that email meant (after clarification):



Just wondered if the grand stairway escalante is available to bring the wagons to. Don’t want any ambushes.



I love talking in code. It makes me feel so much smarter than I actually am.



On a side note… have you ever read any of the notes you used to pass in Junior High or High school as an adult? I read one that was so full of code, I had no idea what I was talking about. I remember someone in my note being referred to as ‘Tomato’. He had red hair.