My objective is to watch it rise over St Michael's Mount – an allegedly awesome sight, but increasingly unlikely this morning, owing to the persistent rain that has soaked me to the skin.
My willpower could waver, I could gobble down more than I had meant to, and I wouldn't have to go to bed haunted by the looming toll on my waistline or wake up the next morning owing the gods of weight management even more of a sacrifice than I owed them the day before.
Plants generally have their highest photosynthetic levels of the day at noon and in the early afternoon, owing to the sun's high angle in the sky.
And then there's the small matter of a 12 game winning streak for the US ending emphatically in Costa Rica on Friday night — with the added indignity of a warm up injury to Michael Bradley and the loss of Besler, Cameron and Altidore for tonight owing to yellow card accumulation.
We owe them afternoon tea, Monty Python and the Beatles.
The deadline for sending 2015-16 tax returns, and paying any tax owed, is midnight on 31 January.
He said that if his team won he was owed one night at the finest hotel in the largest city in the Western governor's state.
Regis at their Italian restaurant, Jojos, to which I owe an evening transported.
It is still possible here, two hours from midtown Manhattan, to be stranded for hours late at night, owing to the dearth of passing cars.
A Cabinet Office spokeswoman said officials became aware of technical issues on gov.uk/register-to-vote late on Tuesday night owing to "unprecedented demand".
"These guys didn't invest anything in their stores, and they would disappear in the middle of the night, owing the landlord several months rent," said Jack Katz, executive director of the Flatbush Avenue business improvement district.
