Good: Dawn arrived in town! Yay!

Bad: Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade interfering with transit downtown to meet Dawn.

Good: Breadsticks dipped in alfredo sauce at Pizza Schmizza.

Bad: Lousy service at same.

Smelly: Urine-soaked bus interior on the way out to Molly’s for birthday BBQ.

Bad: Forgetting about lack of allergy meds until arrival.

Good: Molly’s cooking.

Also Good: Hanging out with cool people at the BBQ.

Bad: Having unsolicited amateur chiropractic work done, resulting in hours of back pain.

Good: Howl’s Moving Castle.

Also Good: Dinner at Kells afterward.

And now, even more Good: Going to bed at the end of a long and interesting day…