That’s what today was. A long day. It started off well enough. We woke up not too early, not too late and watched some TV and decided to head out to see my folks. This weekend is Pride weekend in NYC (and other cities around the country and world!) and we were invited to go by several friends (Thanks to all of you for thinking of us) but we declined. I’ve been on the road back to back for four weeks and I just really need a weekend at home doing not much of anything and seeing very few people. We did however decide we needed to go see my folks since I missed both my mother’s birthday and Father’s Day last weekend when I was in California.

We got there and were just chatting it up with me and Shawn when suddenly her iBook’s display started to go all wonky and began to have lines in it and it was flickering… this was not good at all. About as quickly as this started, it stopped and her Mac began to lock up and finally was unresponsive. I was fairly sure this was a logic board issue. This has been a known issue with G3 iBooks, so much so that Apple has extended waranties on these machines. Well of course my mom freaked out (who wouldn’t) and was almost in tears. I told her to calm down and that we’d take it up to the Apple Store at King of Prussia and see what they say. A quick trip up there did in fact turn up a bad Logic board and she’s out of a Mac for 7-10 days. At least it’s covered. We spend about 2 hours in the Mall and the Apple Store but we got it sorted.

We had dinner at the Outback sat around and talked a bit and then headed home. It was a nice day but a long one.

Nite!