Jeff Billimek’s Journal

Jen woke up way before I did and must have had her coffee because at one point early this morning she came running upstairs to tell me that she loved me and then ran downstairs again.

Eventually I woke up and we got ready to go to the gym.  Every Saturday Jen goes to a body sculpting/strength building class at LA Fitness while I run and lift weights.  Today I agreed to go to the class with Jen.  It was really tough but the hour seemed to go by pretty quickly.

After the class we went to Publix and bought some groceries for our party tonight.  I also had a doughnut.  It was fun shopping with Jen.  We got home and began to get things together for our party tonight.  I helped Jen clean up around the house.  I also did some housekeeping on the computer.

Jen wanted to listen to music while she did some touch-up painting but we discovered a problem with the XBMC software on the Xbox.  The symptoms were that none of the thumbnails were displaying for the albums.  I know that all of the music albums have album art and they did indeed display on XBMC before.  After about 30 minutes of investigation I realized that the problem stemmed from the fact that there were over 160,000 files in the thumbnail directory and it must have been too large.  After I cleaned that out, everything was much more responsive and I was able to re-scan everything and get the album art back.

Once that was eventually resolved Scott came over, followed by Katie and Chris.  Scott brought over a bunch of food and supplies, including a big bottle of Rum and two bottles of Tequila: Petrone and Cabo Vavo.  I made a pitcher of mojitos and then showed Katie the old ‘Strawberry Shortcake’ Atari 2600 game on the x26 emulator on the Xbox.  She loved it.

Others arrived shortly after that and we had a wonderful party.  We grilled some fajitas and onions and peppers.  We had spicy black beans and jalepenos as well as salas and corn chips.  Jen did an amazing job with all of the food and everything.  It was a great time.