Will it ever end???

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About a half hour or so ago, I sat down to check my e-mail, do some banking and check out the discussions here on myLot. Well, no sooner than I sat down did I hear this dripping noise. It's not raining so I'm being verrrrry quiet to hear where it's coming from. Well, it was coming from the ceiling here in the computer room. Right where the A/C unit is that we just had repaired the other day. I knew it was leaking right away and called my husband - who had just gone to bed. Well, the Mr. Fix-it that he's NOT decided the drain up there was clogged - that's what I thought too, until I LOOKED at it! The pan was not even half full, there's no way a clog would cause it to overflow. So he's on his way outside to try to use a vaccuum to suck the clog out when I run out (both in our nightclothes) and tell him it's the caulk around the pipe in the pan that's got a leak. I could tell right away because the boards directly under that are SOAKED, and the rest of the place is dry. AND that's right where the worst of the leak is. So, we've spent the last half hour plus first draining the 1/4 inch of water out of this 4 foot by 2 foot pan. We're using 2 hand towels and a beach towel to drain the water. We got it dry enough to make a dam around the drain so we could recaulk it. Now, mind you, this is all taking place in our attic, pretty much on the pull-down ladder to the attic since there isn't enough room to move around up there, it's all beams and roof trusses. My husband goes to caulk the pipe and the caulk comes out the bottom of the tube, it's clogged. So he's using his fingers to get the caulk around the pipe. It looks like the dripping has slowed down a bit so I'm really hoping this works. We're going to have to check it in the morning to see if it's set. Oh, the joys of home-ownership!!!!