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.

Fall is in the air here in Georgia. It has been a great fall for weather to be sure. Our roses are doing very well. It appears the deer have decided to eat other tasty bits in the yard besides the rose buds, saving the roses for our pleasure.

The dock is now pretty much reconstructed. Small lake. Large dock. A lot of wood. A lot of fasteners. We used 15 gallons of paint. It could probably use another coat too.

It was a good day for plane watching/spotting with the helos and army folks with the King Air. We also saw the immediate aftermath of an incident at Athens airport. The word was the nose gear collapsed after continued taxing after a flat tire. Pure hanger talk, but we were there. The airport has two runways so we could use the runway 2-20 as the main runway 9-27 was closed.


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