Monday, July 7, 2008

fraternity guys


I go every year to visit friends on the New Jersey shore for the fourth of July. The friends are originally friends of my friend, who was in a fraternity in college. The fraternity was started by them so that these geeky computer programmers and other whatnot had some place to belong. It is a geek fraternity. I didn't know they existed, but there ya go.

So now they are all in their 30's and, being geeks, reasonably to very successful. A few are married. Some are single. One is retired and in his 40's. Unmarried. They still like to drink and have fun. We sit around at this gorgeous house on the Jersey shore and drink, eat, and tell ridiculous jokes.

I never realized that I would have friends who used to be in a fraternity.

Were you in one? Were your friends?

The art is German Painter Hans Baldung Grien's Adam, 1523.