The good ol' days...

My weekend reflections on the first week suggest that there’s a certain déjà vu about this place.  Some familiar quality.  Like I’ve been here before.  And I think I know why… 

PAS reminds of my days back at Profimatics in Thousand Oaks, California.  Same kind of working joviality – people getting along and having fun, all busy doing their own expert engineering software thing. 

Really, it’s so similar… even down to the mismatched collection of chairs kind of scattered around here and there in the open spaces. 

But the thing that really knocks my socks off is that one of the engineers here – a really good guy – looks just like his father: a guy that I used to work with back in Profimatics days.  Same roundish face, same mannerisms.  I chuckle to myself just watching him in action.  Flashback city.

And I’m not the only one here enjoying the good old days again.  Some of the other shall-we-say “middle-agish” guys have told me that they like PAS because it reminds them so strongly of the good old days back at Setpoint. 

Ah yes… the good old days back before those guys with the leafy logo and the big red letter came and changed everything… ending the good old days.

Yip, I kinda like the good ol’ days.  And now, I’m going to work to keep them around a while longer. 

And just for that kid who looks like his pop…  Well, wouldn’t it be great if when he gets “middle-agish” that he would get the same chuckles and pleasure as I’m having.  Watching someone else’s kid come in, looking and acting just like someone he knew … back from the good ol’ days.

Yea, that sounds fun.  Long live the good ol’ days!