I took some prescription cough medicine before bed last night. It worked well in that I was able to relax and not cough, but it had a terrible side effect. Although the warnings claimed drowsiness, it kept me up all night long. I just laid in be relaxed, but wide awake. Finally I got up at 3:30 and did some work on Inzolo. I then went back to bed around 5:30 and was able to sleep for about an hour. Fortunately it didn’t affect me too bad....

Today I had a hard time getting out of bed. Rachel and I have been exercising and today was a cardio day. We didn’t get up early enough to have time to exercise. Fortunately though 3 of us decided to go play basketball at the gym. There were 7 other guys there and invited us to play full court with them. It was fun and good exercise. It’s been a while since I have played full court...

Tonight after dinner we got dressed up a bit and took some family photos in front of our Christmas trees – first upstairs, then downstairs. The upstairs ones turned out a little better, so we chose our favorite and made a Christmas card through SendOutCards.com. Inside the cad we put 10 things we learned this year – basically just funny events that happened. It was fun to do. We still have to compile a list of everyone we want to...

We went to Temple Square tonight to see the Christmas lights. Last night when I was leaving the Jazz game I saw a woman on the street corner holding a sign that said “homeless and pregnant”. She was shivering in the cold. I got my wallet out. I had $26. I was going to give her six. When I looked down I realized I had pulled out my $20 bill instead of the $5 bill. I was going to get back into my wallet and get the $5 and I had this...