January 01, 2008
Needles, CA
Sunrise 6:45 AM (PST)
Sunset 4:41 PM (PST)
Hrs. of Daylight 9 Hrs., 56 Mins.

So the sun came up on 2008 and I was still very sick with the cold-from-hell, now classed as acute-bronchitis-from-hell by me. It's interesting how many people give you such sage and welcome advice on taking care of a cold. Did the "welcome" sound sarcastic? Too bad, I meant it to be. Something like get plenty of bed rest, duh, and drink orange juice. Right, you are so sick you can't possibly feel like getting out of bed, let alone showered, dressed, coifed and out the door to the market to purchase orange juice. It you tell me you should have orange juice on hand you are not living me life, sick the day after payday with no time to buy any groceries.

Oh well, here's the moon. I guess it made its appearance at 46 minutes after the new year. Don't know exactly how it looked. I was in bed.

January 01, 2008
Needles, CA
Rises: 12:46 AM (PST)
Sets: 11:47 AM (PST)

At any rate I have now started my journal on the first day of the year, well, almost. And I'm paying attention to the sun and moon which I thought would be a nice thing to do. Bye for now, dear journal, I'm off to sip water and pretend it is Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice. :(!