Furry Troubles

Living in the future kinda rules.  Earlier today I was in the cellar.  My wife was in the living room.  I was feeling a little chilly, but when I went upstairs it felt wicked hot.  It was warm enough in the living room that I was having trouble catching my breath.  I asked Jen if she was okay with me turning down the heat.  She was.  I opened up the Nest app that lets us run our thermostat over the home network and dropped the temp a few degrees.  10 minutes later I got up to leave the room and I noticed something on the thermostat display.  It was an error message.  Our central air system had gone down within those 10 minutes.

So instead of waiting an hour or two to actually notice that the room temperature was too low, we knew there was a problem within minutes.  Like I said, living in the future kinda rules.

So we put in a call to our HVAC company and an hour or so later a tech was here.  The problem was with the AC, not the furnace.  We went outside to look.  He was unscrewing a panel on the side of the unit, telling me what his guess was, when he jumped back a bit.  “Woah, you can’t be in there,” he said.  I walked over next to him to see what he was talking about.  There was a little pile of shredded up leaves in the unit, and a mouse poking his head out from underneath.

The source of our problems was a tiny, adorable little rodent who ate through a wire inside of our AC unit.  The little sucker was so cute it was crazy, but now he’s homeless and our AC is back up and running.