Out on the Run to the Roar hustings: just scribbled my name for the third time at the University Club of Washington's annual author night & book fair. Saw a lot of old friends, including two of my fellow board members from our DC Squash Academy days. Howard Day is in his thirtieth year running the squash scene at the U Club, just a remarkable run. (Howard even had a Jimmy Dunn story or two; he also got to the semis in the B dubs at this year's Dunn).

Each year, people crowd around one author's desk (it was Sandra Day O'Connor my first time at the book fair; this year I sat next to Bill LaForge, author of a massive book "Testifying Before Congress". Bill told me that he actually was in the Supreme Court the day she first sat. What was historic in 1981 is now, less than thirty years later, ho hum.) This year's book fair star was probably Scott Simon. Afterwards, we talked about Quakerism and writing at dawn and astronauts. Scott told me two things that were interesting about space: the Russians land their spacecraft in Kazakhstan, without wheels. Bump.

And that no other country has yet landed a person on the moon. Forty-one plus years and we are still the only ones. Odd.