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.

Spring officially starts in about an hour and a half. It was a long winter. There wasn't that much snow nor did we get record low temps, but it was hovering around zero or below zero degrees for weeks and weeks and weeks. Good ridance. It was good to take vacation that first week in March as I did last year. The benefits are a combination of daylight's savings time changing, weather breaking up North and the respite of the Winter fatigue. It worked well this year. It is the way to enter spring.

My hard drive is causing me trouble. My computer has been open on the desk for a few days with the hard drive kinda hanging out. CHKDSK won't run. It runs to 74 percent and hangs. It is a weird one. I bought a new hard drive. I will reformat everything and it will be good for another year. The computer needed to be cleaned out anyway.At least I don't loose a lot of data like I used to in he old days.

I am headed to the scrap yard tommorow. I have pretty much picked clean the fields of scrap metal this year. I only found one old tractor tire. I have the new jeep, well... "off the road". The old jeep has been picked over and off to the scrap yard.

Check out the one armed baggage handler guy at the Golfito airport.

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