A new way to “run”, Six in a row, Boosted, Am I ok?

Yesterday I received my second PEV device in a week for review. This is one of the more unusual transportation devices I have ever seen as it looks like a cross between roller skates and sandals. They are from a company named Shift Robotics and the product is called Moonwalker Aeros.

Each one of the “shoes” is designed to be strapped onto your existing footwear. Once on you start walking, that is when the tech steps in. As you walk the shoes automatically start rolling all the way up to their max speed of 7MPH. Once mastered you can truly achieve the speed of a fast jog while moving your legs at a walking pace, in theory allowing you to cover distance in roughly half the time. I chose to just unbox and get them charged up last night. Over the weekend I hope to put them through some pretty extensive testing. In theory it sounds very interesting, we will see how they are in real world use.

I was up late last night watching the Eagles/Commanders game. The Eagles were behind for a good portion of the game but strung together a solid last quarter of football to take their sixth win in a row. It seems weird for me to have the Birds at 8-2 because to me they don’t feel like an 8-2 team but hey I certainly can’t complain. The Commanders are a solid team this year and the Eagles still pulled out a win. I will try to rotate my mental dial of them more towards the positive side. I think perhaps the monumental collapse at the end of last season is still lingering in my mind.

I have forgotten to mention that a couple weeks ago just as an experiment I did my first ever YouTube promotion. You basically allocate a certain amount of dollars and pick a video you want promoted. I picked my near death crash video. YouTube then will start promoting your video, pushing it in front of a lot more eyeballs than normal with the hope being that it helps channel growth. I am closing in on 15,000 subscribers and I thought this might be a way to get to that goal faster. So far, it has.

In the roughly two weeks the promotion has been running the video has been presented to roughly 20,000 eyeballs and I have picked up about two months worth of subscribers in the process. The promo still has a couple weeks to run so it will be interesting to see what the final numbers are.

I have been asked several times by friends, both in my personal circle and on social media in recent weeks if I am ok. When you read stories of me drinking to excess on two consecutive weekends I guess that could be a flag. Others have described some of the other stuff I have posted as having dark undertones like the couple segments where I give advice, some of which was tongue in cheek. My answer to this question consistently is, I’m fine.

With the full moon beating down my mood has not been fantastic this past week but that is not unusual. As 2024 has been entering it’s wind down period I have done a lot of thinking about what it has represented to me. There has been a lot of upheaval, confusion, disappointment, and sadness during this year. Sure, there have been a lot of positive things as well but the dark did have more presence than I want. I have been envisioning 2025 as being a big virtual reset button for me where my energy can be focused more consistently on positive things that build me up and return value to my quality of life. Anything else is squandering of our most important resource, time.

This weekend I will be doing a lot of robo-shoes review, a little pickleball and whatever else floats my boat.