Christmas Pictures!

I uploaded some Christmas 2008 pictures to Picasa:
Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas morning, Friday at the Skeet Range.

Christmas 2008

COD5 killed my Xbox

So I got COD5 for Christmas... and it killed my 360. The same thing happened to me after Gears of War came out... :(

Good thing this happened with 4 months left on the 3 year warranty :)

Tis the Season

I finally got the Christmas lights up on Sunday... and you know what that means!
Christmas is almost here!

From Pictures from Treo 650

Below is an article from the Pensacola News Journal about my former Scout Master at Troop 10 in Pensacola.He's pretty much the coolest guy ever... and he makes a mean Dutch Oven Peach Cobbler too.

November 27, 2008
''The things that are important are not easy"

Kris Wernowsky

F. Willard "Vick" Vickery is 81 years old, so it's hardly surprising, when he's hiking or stretched out in a sleeping bag or cooking over a fire with 32 youngsters, that he sometimes second-guesses himself.

"Mr. Vick, what are you doing out here?'' he asks himself.

But he's always got the same answer: "I have to tell myself that this is important, and sometimes the things that are important are not easy to do.''

Vickery has been part of the Boy Scouts of America for 69 years.

He joined Boy Scout Troop 10 in Tallahassee when he was 12. After college, he had a 37-year-career as a Scout executive, living in Pensacola as well as towns in Tennessee, Georgia and Arkansas. He retired in 1988, returned to Pensacola and, for the past 12 years, has been scoutmaster of Troop 10, based at First Baptist Church in downtown Pensacola.

"He's actually in better shape than most of us," said Dennis Hornsby, a 13-year-old troop member. "I think it motivates us to do better because we think that if is able to do something, then we should be able to do it too. We are lucky to have him."

At a recent Scout meeting, three teams of boys had a cook-off to mark their completion of a cooking merit badge.

Vickery, dressed in his beige Scout uniform, examined the small charcoal fires and the Dutch ovens the boys were about to use to cook their meals.

"I think it does help keep me young," he said of his Scout activities.

And he's passing on something that was important to him to a new generation.

"I know what it meant to me as a boy," he said. "I've always felt that the things you enjoy most in life are best enjoyed when you share them with others."

Blaine Peet, 50, whose 12-year-old son, Connor, is a member of the troop, said Vickery is an inspiration.

"He really sets an fine example for the boys," Peet said. "For an 81-year-old to be able to do the everything these boys do is really something."

Scoutmaster Vick Vickery, 81, stands in front of a long list of Eagle Scouts out of Troop 10. Vickery has been active in the Boy Scouts since he joined in 1939 when he was 12-years-old. Vickery is now the scoutmaster for Troop 10. (Katie King)