Our house has two AC units: one for the main floor and one of the upstairs, which was an attic that was converted to more living space some time before we bought the house money pit. The upstairs AC went out last year and it just went out again yesterday which means that when the AC company gets out here this week (HUGE wait list for service) we’ll probably be paying for a new unit. In the meantime my office is a sauna so I’ve shut down my computer and am working away on my wife’s computer. In the past this would have been problematic, but about 90% of my work is now done on web apps that I can access from any computer connected to ye internet. Makes the sting of our dying AC unit a little easier to take.
Oh, by the way, in the span of one hour yesterday afternoon I found out that our AC wasn’t working, our microwave (three years old) died and our home phone started acting up (seems to be fixed now). Still trying to figure out when I walked under the ladder.
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Befuddled 
This is why I believe in service contracts. I discovered them when the A/C went out in July in Virginia when I was 8 months pregnant. Ours has a clause guaranteeing us a repair person within two hours and it covers all the time they are there. Plus they come service the whole setup twice a year.
Ask your repairman when he arrives.
Our downstairs A/C unit wasn’t working when we came home on Friday. Air was blowing out of the vents but it wasn’t cold air. The fan outside wasn’t spinning. We had a A/C serviceman come out on Saturday. He cleaned dead bugs from around the outside unit & charged us $105. Boy we feel stupid. It’s working fine now.
Esbee,
I definitely think we’re going to do it. We’ve single handedly paid for at least one employee at John’s Plumbing and HVAC over the last three years.
Farmer,
Don’t feel stupid; we all learn this stuff the same way, which is by spending big dollars to have a pro show us how these things work and then make us feel silly that we didn’t do it ourselves…if we’d only known before we called.
Thanks to your comment I checked the outside unit as well and the fan wasn’t turning. When I turned the thermostat off and back on I checked the outside unit and it made a kind of sick buzzing noise which leads me to believe that maybe the fan motor is blown. As an English major with zero skills in anything useful to maintaining a household I’m not entirely confident in my prognosis, but I’m still very sure this is gonna cost me some bucks.