Why am I awake and posting at nearly 3:30am local time? I'll tell you why: Because I'm cranky. Why am I cranky?
Because it's 82°F or higher and stifling throughout most of the house.
Because the central A/C decided to take the day off.
Because we discovered said failure too late to attempt any repair before leaving for an all-day-into-night family event.
Because upon returning home around 11:00pm, then vainly attempting to tolerate this for another hour, I grabbed some tools and decided to at least determine whether I
need to make a service call, or could maybe find blessed relief by standing at the doors of Home Depot when it opens in the morning.
Because I had a moment of false hope upon discovering no power at the air handler or condensate pump, on their dedicated circuit.
Because said hope was dashed when swapping said circuit's hot conductor to another, known-good 20A breaker did not fix the problem.
Because I then determined that while I have 120VAC on that conductor where it leaves the main panel, I have ZERO volts on it where the cable emerges from the walls in the basement.
And as far as I know, that is an (originally :tsk
uninterrupted run of Romex from the panel to the air handler.
And that means that somewhere, in the inaccessible part of that thirty-odd-foot run, there is now a break in the hot conductor that, when it failed sometime yesterday, managed to (a)
not trip the breaker and (b) thankfully,
not set fire to my house.
ARE.
YOU.
F^(#ING.
KIDDING.
ME.
Well, on the plus side, I
will have a temporary repair and functioning A/C by 7:00am--Home Depot opens at six. But I am
really not looking forward to the amount of drywall I have to rip open just to find the
route of this freaking cable, let alone replace it.
And
that's why I'm cranky.