Captain, We Have a Malfunction in the Environmental Control Systems.

Well, I finally got my swamp cooler hooked up and working, but now thing's leaking like crazy. I told myself I probably shouldn't use it, what with the possibility of it damaging my roof, not to mention wasting The Desert's Most Precious Natural Resource and running up my water bill in the process, but I was too damn tired of living in this big metal box with no air conditioning in 90-degree weather, so I left it on for quite a while today, anyway. It retaliated, of course, by dripping water through the vent and all over my floor. I suppose I'm gonna have to get somebody who actually knows what they're doing to come and look at it... But that's probably going to have to wait until next week, when I'll actually be home and awake during the day. Meantime, I guess I have a choice of internal climates: hot or damp.

Sigh. Why does nothing ever just work?