December 99 December 98 December 97 _________________ Friday 24 December 99 Christmas Eve 12 52 pm pst   [ in bed with tea ] I am in bed curled up with tea because I am sick.   Rather, I am trying not to get sick.   But the germs were all camped out waiting for me to not get enough sleep, to continually go to locations with radically different temperatures, and to take a 15 hour bus ride with several sick kiddies.   Must   fight   germs ...