…is that we come to your houses to stay, eat your food, and impose on your hospitality! Well, I’m not sure how much of a perk it actually is, but I will be staying at famed (notorious?) NR cruiser “Dr. John’s” place tonight in Palm Springs (book talk tomorrow at the Pepper Tree Book Store and Cafe in Palm Springs at 3 p.m.). John has a wit as dry as the Sahara and as sharp as one of his surgicial instruments. Anyway, coming on a cruise is a great way to get hooked into the NR family. (I think I should get some sort of credit for two commerical announcements so far in this post. Have I mentioned that I will be reading myself to sleep with an NR children’s book?)