We Are Going To Drain The Swamp!

I realize no one will understand the political contextual relationship of the title of this post in a few years, but I also realize that no one will be reading this rag or care about it in a few years also.  Our totally fumbling rookie politician President Elect kept hammering that phrase in his successful march to victory over a well established political expert with world-wide name recognition.  It seems unprecedented to me - in a good way.

I'm not sure why that phrase kept coming to mind this week as I was making my way to Savannah, Georgia with a load of extrusions going to Dirtt Environmental Services, a regular customer of ours on this dedicated account, but one of which I don't often get routed to.  Coming back to work after Thanksgiving kind of put me into a time slot that is not typical for me to be arriving in Delhi, so this was the best load they had, and they offered it to me.  Actually, I think the phrase was on my mind because Savannah, although a nice little place with a down-town revitalization process going on designed to attract the "artsy-fartsy" crowd as I call them, is basically in a big swamp!  I think I had international/political thoughts on my brain because I had to drive through "Cuba," and spent the night in "Dublin" on my way down to this very swampy area of Georgia.  That's right, I drove through Cuba, Alabama and slept at a truck stop in Dublin, Georgia on this trip.  Then on top of that the pre-loaded trailer that I picked up in Delhi must have been pulled by a politically zealous trucker before me, because it had this declaration scratched into the dust that clings to the sides of these Conestoga trailers...

This is not the first trailer that I have picked up in recent weeks that had political statements inscribed in the dust.  Folks are excited about this recent change of the guards of democracy.  Overall the country seems excited to see how this will all pan out, despite how the delusional folks in the media try to portray the country in an uproar.  I travel over ten thousand miles every month, and I have not seen one protester anywhere.  If you turn on the television or the internet you would think the whole country is in an anarchial revival.  It's so much rubbish, and the media still has the brazen audacity to think they can control the way we think and make decisions even after seeing their efforts totally ignored in this recent election.  One wonders how long they will continue in their own deceptive bubble and still be able to sleep at night.  By all accounts they should be totally demoralized at this point, yet they seem to have doubled down in their efforts!  Oh boy, I can't believe I'm saying all this. Oh well, no one follows this thing any way, I may as well stir the pot a little!

Okay, let's get back to what we do best...

Here's a look at the load of extrusions that my friend Jojo Sanchez unloaded with his fork lift at Dirtt. How about that; I have a friendly fork lift operator in Connecticut named Jorgo, and one in Georgia named Jojo.  Sounds like a trend working here.

Some times the shapes of these aluminum extrusions are intriguing to me.  I don't always know how they are used in the manufacturing processes, but some of them are quite intricate.  I think I may put together a set of photos of interesting looking shapes and make a future post of the variety of these shapes that I deliver all across the country.  Here's a look at one of the "bundles" on this load...