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Commercial Items Identified on my Commute

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I see a lot of interesting commercialitems on truck on I-75. When you make the commute many times you start to see the same items over and over again. Sometimes it is huge equipment tires, sometimes heavy equipment of different types. I see these huge blocks of aluminum going North. I think about what the mill must look like and where it is going. And how much aluminum foil a block like this will make. Using the Tesla Full Self-Driving (supervised) allows me to look for these things on the highway. The FSD also helps me through the crazy stop and goes. Easily over 70MPH and then sudden traffic at dead stops, frequently. I see accidents every trip. It is amazing there aren't more. A side note- aluminum foil has a shiny side and a dull side. The reason why is that the foil is folded as it goes through massive rollers. The shiny side is the side that faces the steel roller. The dull side faces itself - aluminum.
I spent a long weekend getting farm work done. G. Mills came down from Rochester. We spent quite a bit of time straightening the fence and getting each pole set with concrete. It was a lot of work and it is not done yet. The fence definitely looks better as the fence posts get straightened. Only the posts at the far edge have been set so far in this happy llama movie. (The movie is 8 Meg. You may want to skip it.) I have some very exciting plans for this winter.