While I wait out the Solowheel backorder...

Hopefully I will hear from Inventist sometime next week that their backordered units have made it over from China, and that my unit has shipped. In the meantime, I'm having some unexpected fun.

I've continued putting together my Solowheel videography kit. In addition to what I've already discussed, I've added an old Flip HD, and a $13 camera from Amazon that looks like a car's keychain remote. The Flip has a standard threaded mount on the bottom, so it'll be easy to attach. I had pretty low expectations for the keychain camera, since it was dirt cheap, but I got a big surprise: it actually works pretty well! The biggest downside so far is the time and date stamp it adds to the lower right of any recorded video or stills, which I can't seem to disable. Instead, I just letterbox the video in Premiere, chopping off the bottom of the video. Now I just have to think about how and where to attach the thing to my Solowheel.

Since the primary motivation for my original order was to keep up with my daughter on her bike rides, I'm also putting in a lot of time running after her, or riding my own bicycle, skateboard, or new rollerblades. It's been about ten years since I did much inline skating, and about 20 since I rode the skateboard, but surprisingly I've remained somewhat competent. Not as good as I remember being, but not hopeless either. And I'm having fun. I'll try grabbing some video footage over the next week or so.

The biggest bummer of the week, however, was seeing this at our local park:

I can't believe The Man still has a thing against skateboarding. Not cool. At least it's not a "No Solowheeling" sign...