When things slow down for a few seconds in the base room at  Bumbershoot, one’s mind begins to wander (quickly, because you don’t know when you’ll get the opportunity to let it wander again soon) and odd questions tend to pop up. Thanks to wifi, a laptop and Google, this leads to me gaining a lot of knowledge that I never even considered available. For example, since we communicate almost entirely by two-way radio for 14+ hours a day, we use a lot of radio slang such as “What’s your 20?” to ask “Where are you?” You may be thinking the same thing as I did a while ago (“If ‘What’s your 20?’ has more syllables than ‘Where are you?’ why do we say that? And where did it come from?”). Now I understand the history if 10 codes (though I still don’t know why “20″ relates to location).

I do love my time at Bumbershoot.

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