I'm having a strange problem and wanted to know if anyone had any
thoughts about it.

A few days ago I came home and turned on my stereo... it came on for a
split second and then
it and the lights in the same room went dead. I went to my circuit
breaker box and the switch
for that room had not tripped. As it turns out - at that moment - I
lost power on most, but not all, of my
circuits. I lost power on 7 or 8 of my 16 circuits.

Three hours later these items all mysteriously came back on as suddenly
as they vanished.

I had this same problem yesterday - when I came home the power was out
- later on it came back
on. I don't have a particularly heavy electrical load in general and
certainly not yesterday.

This morning I was testing and more accurately labeling what was on
each circuit when I
believe I caused the same problem to occur again while plugging in a
fan in my shed.
The shed circuit went on but the problematic circuits all died.

So I'm without power once again throughout most of my house.

I'm not sure if it matters but it appears that the switches are
functioning in this order
(2 rows of fuses)

Out Out
On (Not sure, doubles with one above it for dryer)
Out Out
On On
Out Out
On On
Out Out
On On

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Chris