I almost missed having to go over to the church.  But I stayed up late anyway because the Jazz game didn't come on until 8:30.  Before that my wife had actually sat with me down here in my office for 3 hours.  She came down a few minutes ago and had prayer with me and is now in bed.  I still have my reading and my push ups and normally some time for pondering before I go to bed.  I find it interesting that I have turned into this night owl where not long ago I was going to bed some times before 9.  I do rest during the night but I am thinking a lot too and I really enjoy the time that I am able to do that.  During the day I don't seem to get too much time to just think.  Either I am working or I watch tv and get dumber.  Today I did take time to read more in the latest Ensign and that time made me smarter.  This afternoon I discovered the Mormon Channel and watched the old BYU movie 'Johnny Lingo'.  If you have never seen it look it up and watch it.  It is really about the 1st really good thing the BYU motion picture studio did way back then.  I also changed from my regular Yourldsradio to listening to the streaming music on the Mormon Channel.  It has been even better background music that I have enjoyed this evening and right now.  For staying up so late (for me) I really feel energetic right now.  That is because I did my full hour on my bike while watching the Jazz and that went from almost 9:30 to almost 10:30.  So my juices are still flowing a bit.  But I know that I'll slow down here shortly and kinda crash and be ready to go to bed.  Today is February 1st so I started my day with 50.  I'll end my day the same way.  Funny how I get to or near my number and run out of gas.  I barely make it, but I do make it.  I do remember when I was doing 5 then 10, 20 on up.  Here I am now at 50.  Amazing for an old man.  Sometimes I sit thinking about it too long, and sometimes I get right to it.  But so far except for the 2 times I used pain as an excuse I have been faithful for over 4 years now.  It is what I now call one of my personal commandments.  You may hear more about that at a later date.  Remember:  personal commandments.