Our morning column, 5 Things You Need to Know, provides you with information that can help you plan your day and give you some fodder for water cooler conversations.

1. The Northborough Tea Party presents "How Did Hope and Change Become Three Years of Obamanations?" tonight at the Northborough Free Library.

2. Sea Dog Steak and Ale is the new home for trivia, every Monday night.

3. Northborough places, people and things: we'd like to see it all in our Neighborhood Gallery, which is featured on Northborough Patch. It's easy to click and load your own shots.

4. Make fortune cookies and cake pops for your Valentine, your BFF — anyone you'd like — with this Valentine making session at the library.

5. It's Get a Name New Day, as well as Clean Out Your Computer Day, according to brownielocks.com. If you could name yourself something new, what would it be?