Monday, February 9, 2009

Super Sleuths

I felt as if I had just become a character in a Dan Brown novel as I grabbed a pen and began scribbling code words into a hastily drawn grid. When the phone went dead, I was to contact another source to get details needed to crack the cipher...

Scott had details he was allowed to share as long as he did so in a way that was not recognizable to anyone other than the recipient. Additionally, he was told that it couldn’t be easily researchable. (There went our standby of using Catholic feast days!) So, he put together a grid of clues that worked together to give us date ranges for various locations. Remarkably, there were no dates or locations in the code!) After 30 minutes (and couple of Google searches) Bill and I successfully determined that Scott IS COMING HOME! He’ll be home before the date his initial orders included (June 21) but there is still plenty of time to arrange for Gianna and my flight. Unfortunately, that is as much information as I can post right now. As time draws nearer, I’ll post what I’m able. Don’t worry, I’ll write in complete sentences; no super decoder ring will be necessary.

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