Tonight Shannon and I went to her co-worker's, Ming-Tzong, house for a nice Sunday dinner. Her children were there, who are all around the same age as Shannon and I. One of her sons works for BYU police as well as city police in Sandy, and man he had some good stories. Just a word to the wise, don't pick your nose or do anything else on campus that may be embarrassing even if you don't think anyone is looking, because there are thousands of cameras inside and out. The campus police save all the funny tidbits for later. Anyways, after dinner he gave everyone a little self-defense training and gave Shannon and I a can of pepper spray as well as a kubotan, which is a small self-defense weapon keychain for close-quarters. He gave us some good training on how to use it if we are attacked, but in all reality I question its effectiveness. I realize that having and using it is a lot better than nothing at all, but I can think of something else that is a lot better (a concealed gun). I am glad Shannon has this stuff, but I think for it to be effective in actual practice you need quite a bit more training and strength to fend off an attack.