Scooter Goes

When last we left our hero, the electric scooter was randomly tripping its breaker. Every time that happens, the power to the bike dies (no matter how much traffic you're in), and you have to stop, remove the seat, flip the breaker back on, and keep going. This happened six times in one trip, and was getting pretty old. Maintenance minutia follows.
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Kombuchoid Encounters

I've been brewing kombucha for probably about four months now. I had one really good recipe that produced happy results most of the time, but recently we've had some problems. I think they were mainly caused by my decision to try using jasmine green tea, instead of normal green tea. wordmegan was victimized by this when she generously babysat my SCOBY when I was gone to Oregon, with the result being distinctly pickle flavored kombucha.

Poor worldmegan!

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