My phone says I’m on vacation

ing out of my mouth, when they should have been 742. Take 3…Take 4…Take 5. On Take 5, I managed to get through my recording without any mistakes, only to realize when I had played back my message it had recorded the messed up Take 3, and not the pristine Take 5. So Take 6. Back to forgetting the date on which I’m coming back. Take 7. By now I’m too giddy to even be able to say seven words without laughing.

“You’ve reached the desk of Tina Comeau…”

Well, you can see how hilarious that is. Take 8…Take 9. By the time Take 10 rolls around I figure I’ll be back from vacation before I change my voicemail telling people that I’m on vacation.

And by Take 11 all I really feel like saying is, “I’m not here. I’ll be back.”

Take 12 goes smoothly and finally I have a recorded message telling people I’m on vacation, the date I’ll be back and where else they can call if they need to. Phew. Now I’ll just have to worry about changing the recording again when I get back.

I once returned from a vacation and somehow managed to record an old recording as my daily recording. It was July but the message on my phone was telling people I was on vacation and I’d only be returning to work on March 19.

I guess it was my way of telling myself that one week away from the office just isn’t long enough.

I had an almost life-ending head injury in 1994. As a result, sometimes I need things I see or hear explained a little more than some. Maybe someone who reads this can explain this as no one I contacted could.

A large construction company was blasting in the middle of the forest for the purpose of crushing and making asphalt. The woods were closed, even to hiking, due to extreme forest fire hazards. Yet this operation was allowed to operate.

The beast they used was 18,000 tonnes. This must disperse tremendous heat and pressure on the rock involved. Then they crush and have about five diesel engines running at mostly full throttle, all day.

Part of the exhaust emissions of diesel is in the form of hot soot and carbon, some even have a system where they trap carbon to be burned off at a set period. Engines can be over-fuelled causing the carbon to get even hotter and burn off and expel into what was extremely dry conditions.

When they are done crushing they bring in the asphalt plant. This is like a jet engine. It melts crushed stone, sand, gravel and tar together. The emissions coming out of this plant are about as a big as a quarter grain of rice.

I have eyewitness accounts from myself, my wife, neighbours and photos. The emissions are hot and sting bar skin if you are close to the plant, as the forest is.

I contacted my municipal councillor. She was looking into it. I contacted my municipal bylaw officer, not his department. He referred me to a person at Natural Resources. It isn’t his department unless there is an infraction.

Wouldn’t a forest fire be an infraction?

I contacted the Department of Environment about the emissions. Seven days after the plant left they got back to me and said they were ready to set up air quality monitors.

This time I called them about the plant coming and they told me if they are in the area they stop to look, but they will not set up monitors.

Does this seem OK for a possible forest fire hazard?