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 have been in NY state and Kansas in the last week.


My main computer had a fatal HD0 failure. I just took it to the shop, got a new hard drive, all the data loaded/transferred and everything is good. I hardly noticed the failure. What a difference from years gone by where I would fight getting things back the way they needed to be. It helps living in Atlanta. Services, even computer services, are easy to get and there is sufficient competition to keep prices reasonable.


I have enrolled in formal Portuguese classes that start next week.


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