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Fossil Free Friday: Passing on the Electric Scrambler Jones

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(Getting it out of my system) The Scrambler Jones It happens more often than I want to admit. I go through a season of jonesing for a motorcycle to ride. It doesn't make financial sense, it doesn't make logical sense, and I know that if I had one, I would not ride it much. But I dearly miss the feeling of riding a motorcycle along a windy road on a beautiful day. The latest jones has been slightly different - it's still retro and it's still electric, but this time it's dirtier - I'm jonesing for a scrambler. When I look at what's commercially available, there's not much other than one very desirable bike - the Fly Free Smart Desert. Yes, I straight up want one. The Fly Free Smart Desert But they finished the pre-sale and haven't started the post-sale (and I could not afford either, snagit!) Subtract the surfboard, the ocean, the cool helmet and jacket and goggles - that could be me! What else is out there? I've ...

Exhaust Pipes Like Violence (over coffee)

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Matt and I try to meet for coffee once a week. We like to sit outside at J&B coffee to talk about life and literature, teaching and religion, and the need for people to treat others with compassion and understanding. We also talk about things with wheels. We both really like things with wheels. But there're times... Find J&B here This week, we met on Saturday afternoon. It was beautiful outside. We sat on the corner facing east. My favorite parking spot at J&B Unlike most Lubbock coffeehouses, J&B isn't situated on a major road. It's in a mostly residential neighborhood near the university. While there's a lot of traffic, there's no high-speed traffic, and the traffic is vehicularly diverse. Everything from Citibuses to Lime scooters rolls past J&B all day long. More so than usual, this week's conversation was filled with long pauses, but they weren't dramatic pauses or reflective pauses, they were noisy traffic pauses....