Well. I guess that’s one way to distract me.

I don’t really have a post for you this morning. See, last night I went to Crisanna’s and tried to watch some QI. (Where did you all go, streaming videos?) And all was well, but no pre-blogged blog post. That’s okay, I could write one this morning, the old-fashioned way.

Except that when my NOAA radio alarm went off at 5:45 a.m. to warn me of a severe thunderstorm, I noticed my kitchen counter was practically shaking. And the kitchen wall was vibrating. And I could hear a loud churning. I thought for a minute that it was just because I had been woken up out of a deep sleep and things just seemed louder…but I don’t remember my kitchen vibrating before. Huh. It wasn’t the fridge. Could it be… Yep. I turned the central air conditioner up a few degrees so it would quit and just as it stopped, the loud churning noise and the shaking all stopped. Not good. I turned the a/c back down to 78 to make it come on again, and the same symptoms came back. So I threw on some clothes and ventured outside with my flashlight. The unit looked okay, and it sounded okay-ish, but I did notice that it plugged into the house just about where all the noise and vibration was coming from. I googled it and found nothing. (Darn, you Google! You’ve never failed me before!) Then I looked for the paperwork from when we had the a/c fixed exactly two years ago; it was missing. Who knows what the Ex did with it, what we had fixed, or what it cost.

But I remember it was not cheap.

One of my friends had her unit replaced and it cost her $5500. Another person I work with had his unit replaced and it cost over $8000. Please, please, please send me happy cheap-fix-for-your-a/c thoughts today because I really cannot handle this.

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