Com Surrogate.

I have spent over three hours in Internet trying to find out how to get rid of Com Surrogate that keeps appearing every time I try to do some work with video’s. After I have clicked it off three or four times it restarts the explorer. My nerves are at an end!!! In the forums that I have read they all say the same thing, it’s Nero 7 that is causing the problem. That can’t be it with me because I have Nero 8 installed. Do you guys out their have the answer?
The week was a normal one except on Wednesday I was at the dentist. I was full of anticipation if he would cause me a lot of pain or not, gladly to say none at all. After the injection every thing went fine, I was in the chair for one and a half hours. My next appointment is for next week Wednesday and then have another one a week later. Next week is a full week for me Monday I have to go and have my eyes checked, Tuesday I am at work all day Wednesday dentist, Thursday my job as janitor cleaning the three houses. I don’t know were I found time to work before I retired.
Take care out there were ever you are. Tshüss
The Photo was taken when we had all that snow.

Short story’s of past incidents in my army life (funny and sometimes sad)

The next morning we were all marched to the barber’s to have short back and sides (as they say). We had one guy who had turned up with long hair and a guitar naturally he was the first in the chair, the sergeant said to him “are you a bleeding girl or what!” then turned to the barber “start cutting till I say stop”. When he was finished with the guy there was only a small patch of hair left on top of his head, the sergeant then plonked the guy’s beret on top of the guy’s head and his remark was “good, what below the beret shows belongs to the army, what’s under the beret belongs to you”. This guy went AWL (absent without leave) the same evening and we never saw him again.
After the barber’s we were marched to the Blanco room and shown how to apply Blanco to our webbing. Now this is really a pain in the arch job. Our Blanco that we used in training was light beige in colour and came in a round tin and was solid in form. Using a small brush and water you formed a paste and then applied it with the brush evenly on to your webbing. This is a time killing procedure and a nerve robbing one as well. You then had to wait till it was dry, and then came the tricky part you then had to polish all the brass with Brasso without getting any on the newly Blanked webbing. I have seen guys do the same job three to four times in one evening and other guys got it right straight from the start, I was average. All in all to apply Blanco and polish your brasses you used a toothbrush, matchsticks, cotton wool and one or two other implements that made the job easier.
The next thing we learnt was to set out our lockers and to make a bed pack. Now a bed pack is made out of two blankets and two sheets, it’s one sheet then a blanket then a sheet folded in to a square then the other blanket is wrapped around it and tucked in underneath. The third blanket was for the bed; it had to be pulled tight with hospital bed folds on each corner. At the top of the bed the bed pack was placed; it had to be squared off using you used your mess tins to do this (a bed pack was made up every morning).
For the locker set out there was a detailed plan how it had to be, no excuses were accepted if you didn’t get it right. On top of the locker came your pack and ammunition pouches; on top of that came your steel helmet. Seeing that all your buckles on your pack were brass it meant that you had to take it all down once a week to polish the buckles because they were tarnished.
Your greatcoat did not hang on a coat hanger, it was folded, there were two rows of brass buttons on the coat and they also had to be polished. I never thought it was possible to fold an army greatcoat so small and it cost a lot of effort and bad languish in getting it done (here I must say every body helped each other were they could, team work pure so to say). Locker inspection was a daily thing, sometimes in the middle of the day you were ordered to stand by your locker for it’s inspection.
Every morning before parade (parade being 0:800 hours) we had room and locker inspection, beds had to be lined up, that meant the foot of the beds had to be in a perfect line with each other, the room had to be absolutely spotless. Window panes were cleaned with Brasso and newspaper, the rubbish bins were polished inside and out you could see your face in them.
This was daily routine, up at reveille 0:600 hours, breakfast, then at 0:730 hours room inspection then out on parade for inspection of kit and clothing, then the drill started.

To be continued.