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Woke up this morning to a weird repeating noise--a click followed by what sounded like a laser running out of power in a sci-fi movie or something. It would happen. Wait 5 or 6 seconds. Then it would happen again.
Tracked it to right outside our bedroom window. Where the AC unit is.
Fuck. It's the compressor trying to kick on and seizing up. The unit came with the house when we bought it in 2004, and I have no idea how old it was then, so I knew this day was coming.
Throw on my shoes and stumble out there, hoping that it is something like a stick that got caught in the blades or something that I could actually fix.
And then see that the noise is actually the dying breaths of one of our kids' Ironman laser shooter toys that we got years ago. Apparently, it got left in the yard and forgotten/buried. And one of our dogs dug it up and moved it over by the compressor.
I've never seen $5,000 disappear and reappear so fast in my life.
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