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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.
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At the moment I am in Sioux Falls South Dakota. There are only a few of the 50 states I haven't been. I got stuck in a bit of a traffic jam while someone was helped getting out of their car with the jaws of life. The moon was a bit eerie. Hopefully, I can get a flight lesson this weekend. The weather was bad last weekend. I got a pick of my pilot doing a paper folding demonstration, or something.