High Frequencies

     I've been throwing a lot of Vocaloid-related stuff at you guys lately. I mean, that is supposed to be most of the blog, but I figured I might take a break for now and test my storytelling skills.
     One of the weird things I inherited from my family, other than double-jointed fingers (although I did not inherit the tongue you can touch your own nose with; one of my cousins has that), is the ability to hear slightly higher frequencies than the average person. In high school my dad was tested up to 40 kHz (the normal limit is 20 kHz). He has, of course, lost some of that over the years, but I would estimate that I have about the same range as he did at that time, along with my siblings.
     Some of the things I can hear are:
- Cathode-ray tube TVs
- Flute overtones
- Some chargers, specifically the ones that have one thing that plugs in, then several outlets of different types
- Probably some other things I can't remember
- The ultrasonic cleaner we bought recently for making frozen lemonade.
     Here is a picture of the horrible thing:
           My brother and father hooked it up to an Arduino:
     Every five seconds, it screams at me. It's driving me absolutely insane, and I'm not sure the resulting sorbet will be worth that. I shut myself up in my room for a while and read, but I needed to prepare my blog, so I'm down on the main floor with noise-cancelling headphones. Why didn't I think of that earlier?
     Did I successfully make that into an entertaining/interesting story? I'm curious to hear your thoughts.

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