The good newses:

• The dining room is painted. It looks pretty darn good. Pics to come soon.
• Denny got me beautiful Valentine’s Day flowers that were delivered at work.
• I’m going to the Lincoln Café for dinner tomorrow.

The bad newses:

• I feel like hell. This cold just will not let up. I wouldn’t even be here at work if I didn’t have two important meetings this afternoon that would be a real pain to reschedule.
• Related: I have these gorgeous flowers on my desk, but I can’t smell them.
• I might not feel well enough to enjoy the Lincoln Café, but I can’t exactly reschedule that because it’s based on an out-of-town friend being in town.
• Alpine Bavarian night was a big disappointment. The food was very blah, nothing better than you’d get in the Amanas, for three times the price. I wonder if that’s just the nature of German food. I don’t know. I don’t really want to go back and shell out another 80 bucks for another one of their theme nights if it’s going to be that unimpressive again.

Wow, I should have put the bad news first. This makes me sound very pessimistic. Oh, I thought of something nice. I got some new shower gel and it smells really, really good, and it’s nice that I experience it in the shower where the steam can temporarily unclog my nose. So at least I have that.