Well..my wife and son decided to alter the agenda a bit. I ended up playing "Karate Champ" for the C64 with my son before he went to bed and then watching "War Horse" with my wife.
I was able to squeeze a bit of 650x ML/Assembly in there. The book I am using is fantastic. I was able to swap values in memory and call an assembly procedure which prints "Hi!" on the screen from BASIC. Nothing hardcore as of yet but still fun. It is a nice change from writing .NET code.