i sat down last night around 23:00 to finish what i was doing and stopped to clean the fan, first. i turned it off for a second, just to wipe it down and....
it doesn't turn back on. shit.
this is a crisis point, because i know what happens when you eliminate the air flow in here - i get asthma attacks, i get migraines and i'm rendered useless. worse, i spent a lot of time cleaning in here, and every day that goes by without airflow is a day where dust and smoke and other shit builds up. i had to stop and try to fix it...
now, i'm not very good with mechanical things. like, at all. i can solve equations you've never heard of, but i can't change a light bulb - i'm just that kind of person, that's a whiz with theory and abstraction but absolutely useless with anything practical or hands-on. so, no, i don't actually have even the faintest idea how a fan works...
i imagined it was just a spindle rotating.
so, you could imagine my bafflement when i opened the thing up and couldn't find where the electrical connected to; it just fed into what i assumed was a heat sink, but looked like some kind of electromagnet. why would there be an electromagnet in a fan?
so, i got flummoxed by it, took a shower and got out and looked it up.
to my credit, i was able to identify what i'd read about in books - the fan is actually an electromagnet. but, had i known that, i wouldn't have opened it up, because i know i've busted the field and will never get it back...
so now what?
well, now i'm useless until i can buy a new one on wednesday morning, and it will be the very first thing i do, when i do. i'm going to need a backup, as well. it slows me down with other purchases, and it means i'm going to need to run the shower a lot. it fucking stinks on that side of the apartment, already.
and, it means i'm going to have to reclean pretty much everything.
so, i'm back where i started again. unfortunately.
everything's on hold until i can fix that.
i spent the night trying everything sort of thing and nothing worked. i can get electricity and i can feel the magnet, but it's jut too weak. it's the seal - you break it, it's gone.
i've just been doing odds and ends since, suffering through the predictable asthma attack and trying to focus.