Phew! I ran for fifteen minutes this morning. That puts me at just about 1.25 miles. Not too shabby. I think I will try to do 15 minutes for the next 2 weeks then go to 17.5.

On another note: Listening to the news this morning brought about an interesting thought. I did not hear the full story but this is what I got. Apparently the gubmint is currently debating lifting an embargo against China that was put in place after tianamen square. One fo the pundidiots they had on said that the main concern about lifting the embargo would be the transfer of technology that could happen to china.

Pardon me if I'm just ignorant here, but isn't this a bit silly. China currently produces a large portion of all consumer goods in this country, including tech stuff. The Chinese army is huge and is well funded. Every year thousands of chinese students come to our Universities to study a broad range of topics like Computer Science, Nuclear Engineering, Biology, Physics, Medecine, etc etc etc. But don't give them any more tech that would be terrible. To think that they are incapable of developing all off this dangerous "technology" is patently ridiculous. Perhaps the main concern should be that the human rights violations and lack of democracy are currently just as bad if not worse than when tianamen square took place. But good lord don't let them have any of our weapons technology.....