Is History Repeating Itself?

So I bleached my hair again.

I remember coming into SSC after I did it the first time. So many double-takes, so many people blown away.

I got some similar reactions here. The first reaction was a double-take followed by laughter, but it wasn't in a mean way, Shey has simply realized that I'm a wacky guy, and this was just one more way for me to entertain her, haha!

Someone else looked up as I entered an office and was just like "whoa!"

Well bleaching my hair means one thing. LAN TIME! It's approaching fast. This Summer, it's the last weekend in August, and I'm ready to go have some fun. Hopefully if things work out with her job, Christine can join me.

To continue the theme from the post title, I realized something this past week. I've moved into my more permanent office a little over a week ago, as has another of the 4 of us in the "bullpen". One of the remaining two is this ex-Navy and reserve Lieutenant who's pushing 40. When he enters the office he announces "on deck," and when he leaves he'll say "I'm going off deck, you have the con".

Well he was sick all of last week except for Friday, which he described as biologically compromised (or something similar, it was a riot). I realized on Friday, that he's probably my favorite person at work, which then lead me to reflect on how Tony was probably my favorite person at SSC (no offense anyone, especially Marc R., I love you, :p ).

What is it with me and bonding with the old guys? Actually, as I write this I'm reflecting further and wondering if I'm just more prone to developing a unique friendship with the person who's least like me on the surface. Tony and I are from different worlds, and to an extent so are the Lt. and I. I suppose I just put those friendships on a pedestal since they are a change of pace for me.