Key Trivia

I'll send something from China (that you won't find at Wal-Mart) to whoever can tell me how this key/lock works inside. I don't know how the lock knows which key to use. As you can see, the key resembles a military style dogtag, but with two layers and something inside. The outside of the handle spins freely until the two slots line up. Then you insert the dogtag like key. The key is .095" thick, 2.554" long and 1.427" wide. If you use the correct key you can engage the ouside of the handle and turn the knob to open the door. I stayed in another room at the hotel before and when I changed rooms I quickly compared the two. If it wasn't for the number stamped into one side I probably couldn't tell them apart. The locaton of the little bump seemed to be in the same location, though I didn't verify that it is exactly the same. The sheet metal is thin, but I can't get a good measurement. There is something inside, but I don't know what it is. It weighs to much and doesn't sound like it's hollow when flicked. At one time I thought it had some weak magnetism, but I'm not sure now. Feel free to post comments and questions, I changed the comments settings so you should be able to post w/o having a username/password.

Last night while eating dinner I got a call from our HR manager saying that I was going to move out that night. She said that a policeman had told her it wasn't safe for me to stay there. That's all I know. I don't have any reason to form any conspiracy theories, but I haven't seen have any evidence of the danger so I'll just have to take their word for it. Either way, it looks like this is fast-tracking my efforts to move to Fenghua. I've been told that the GM's wife is looking for an apartment for me today and I will probably move into it tonight. I hope it is nice. I have two friends who have helped me with this so far, but I don't want to live in the apartments I've seen. It's not easy telling them you want a nicer place, and you'd be willing to pay three or four times as much when they have never seen a place like that, but the places I've seen would just take a little too much adjusting. I'll have to post some photos so I don't seem like such a snob.