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When I had a problem with my water meter a few months back, I learned two things:

1. All the meters in my apartment complex communicate the water data to a main server in the office via a 900mhz connnection. How this doesn’t interfere with cordless phones I have no idea. Also, it does this with a AA battery, so if I ever wanted to stop recording my water usage I suppose all I would have to do is remove that.

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2. The water service guys, while friendly and talkative people, seem to think I know more about their proffession than I do. Or at least that was the feeling I got listening to them talk about installing rack mount rectifiers for something or another. Well, interesting sound clip anyways.

Download Audio: Turn that water on John

It’s nice to remind yourself what the other side of the weather seasons sound like once in a while. This is a clip of the sound outside my apartment recorded last July. The interstate, of course, permeates all sound within several miles around it so just pardon the highway noise.

Download Audio: Night in July

This is a quick clip I recorded on a trip to Wal-Mart a while back. This was before they installed those damn automatic checkout lanes that won’t ever shut up. So no self checkout voices, just regular old beepity beeps from the checkout lanes.

Download Audio: Walmart Ambience

Putting the blog back together. Testing to see if it works.