Train Movie

Great Famly Pics

Need to note that these are all professionally Taken By a very talented Photographer, Kimberly Potterf

SPACE: A big thing to a 4 year old

Abigail and Ethan brought home some books on space, and astronauts, and lots of fun stuff. I thought it was pretty neat, so I downloaded some pics from NASA website. Enjoy. I found this web site about the international space station, very interesting.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

SPACE: It's out there..... really

I'm probably not to different than most people in the USA, other than trying to keep up with kids, keep tabs on the latest bank crisis, oh yeah and where are Hillary and Barrack...........oh that's right they are resting for PA :) well, anyway I took some time recently to see what my daughter brought back from the library, and Kristy and Abigail brought home 5 or 6 books about space, and spacecraft, and astronauts. Stuff I honestly don't think about at all, save for when something really bad happens. It just floats around as oh yeah something we do, go into space!!! our grandparents would fall off their beds.

SO WHAT
So I decided to start reading some things about NASA on the Internet, you know that thing that Al Gore invented :) (just joking I'm sure he had a major role). So turns out we have the International Space station and we go up quite often and do stuff on it with lots of other countries. And just so happens they, NASA, have a TV channel if you have DirecTV, I recommend it if you need to fall asleep, but it has some amazing pictures on it.




So here is what I did this for, lots of amazing pictures that remind me how small we are in this little world and how the Movie Horton Hears a Who, ain't that far off.






Very Cool web site that shoes tons about NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

Some Video's

I was getting ready for work a few weeks ago and spotted this commercial, I'm really left speachless.............any thoughts here..................wow

Car Canundrum ( however you spelit)

I've been after a new ride, not too spicy, not too sweet, just in the middle something that will get me to work, or to California. Any suggestions. Currently I'm looking at Toyota's (corolla, camry) Honda (Accord) Pontiac (GP) Chevy Impala, older Nissan Maxima

I guess my long term goal is to drive a car comfortably for 8-9 years.

What I do

Ever get asked this question???
Well this is never a fun one if your boss asks you :) but every once in a while people start wondering just what is it that you do when you go to work? Well with that in mind I thought I'd write a little bit about what I spend my time doing when I'm not sleeping or hanging with the fam.

1) I go to meetings seems like anymore I spend 2-3 hours a day in meetings, most of them are updates about day-to-day goings on in the company status of each plants safety quality and production, what major issues they are facing and so on.
2) Try to figure out ways to make good steel and answer questions that customers have about our products, usually problems they are having, but also technical questions about how the products perform.

In Ashland we make;
Coke - a key ingrediant in smelting Iron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_%28fuel%29

Iron - a smelting process used to turn Iron-oxide ore into liquid iron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_furnace



Steel- a process that converts liquid iron into steel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_oxygen_furnace

We cast the steel into slabs 9.5" thick up to 72" wide and up to 34' long
Slabs are taken to middletown where they are rolled on the Hot Strip mill into coils
Coils are then pickled (to remove scale FeO) and then cold rolled down to the final gauge the customer requires.

At this point coils are sent back to us in Ashland for coating at the Galvanize/Galvanneal line

This operation anneals the strip to meet customer formability requirements, coats the strip with a Zn coating in molten Zn (Zinc) and coils the steel up for shipment to the customer.

The coils we produce go on the most critical customer applications including car hoods, roofs, doors, and quarter panels, for demanding customers such as Toyota, Nissan, Chrysler, GM, Ford, and several others.