7/23/06: 8.5 Mile Run: Brownell-Shades Creek Greenway

I got some new CD's this week and I have caught up on podcasts, so I jammed to the new music. The weather was great. Still thinking about the extended family situation. Man, those decisions you make early in life can haunt you later. I feel like I have done the right thing most of the time, but there are few I regret. The stuff in Israel and Lebanon seems to just keep getting worse. Iran must be having a field day with this. Nothing creating a little conflict that will go on for awhile and result in 10 times as many deaths in Lebanon to get more Shiites motivated to rally against the U.S. and its allies, drive a bigger wedge between the parties in Iraq, defer attention, and basically just stir things up. I regret that leaders, on all sides, use rehetoric and munitions to create contexts that help the rest of us pick arms and fight for those causes. Let's aim for real peace. I listened to Nickleback's new CD, All the Right Reasons, (not available via the amazon links I build). Good CD, but not as good as early CD's in my opinion. But, a definitive keeper. The Trapt CD, Someone in Control, was jamming. I really loved their debut CD and have seen them several times here in Birmingham. Great stuff! I only hear the first few tracks of Shinedown's Us and Them, but they were good. Data: Distance: 8.5 Miles Time: 1:18:35 Heart Rate: 162 Pace: 9:14 Weather: Cloudy 72° 82%