That’s entertainment!

Yesterday, Saturday August 30, 2008, was a happy day for the Fritz family, with each of the five of us choosing our favorite mode of independent leisure activity. Steve is at Burning Man, where he always experiences amazing, wonderful things. I read in the Oregonian today there was a dust storm, which Steve was anticipating since reportedly it hasn’t rained in the Black Rock Desert since Burning Man last year. He and I find challenges tend to add to the sense of accomplishment when endured and conquered.

Ali was at Kumoricon, an anime convention at the Lloyd Center Doubletree (click the link, if “anime” isn’t part of your everyday vocabulary). She loves the entire process of planning and implementing her participation in the experience of these conventions, and hopes Kumoricon will grow popular enough to pack the Oregon Convention Center in future years. If you’re in the vicinity of the Lloyd Center this weekend (including Labor Day) and notice higher-than-usual numbers of young people attired stranger-than-usual, it’s (probably) because of the convention.

And Luke, Maxwell, and I drove to Eugene for the opening game of the University of Oregon Ducks football season. This is our tenth year of watching Duck football games from the cheap seats behind the end zone.

Photograph by nice man two rows behind us

We won, in case you haven’t heard. And I got to spend eleven hours in the company of my treasured sons. Such a great way to end the summer and kick off the fall.