By the way, if anybody wants cheap pH test kits you can get phenol red (a 6.6-8.0 pH indicator dye) for like 70 cents for a small dropper bottle at home depots. It's extremely accurate and relatively easy to read. Drop 5 drops into a standard aquarium testing tube and if it's yellow you're looking at 6.6, if it's pure red it's 8.0, if it's orange-red you're in the 7 range.
Edit: They have other tests for ponds and what not too for alkalinity and chlorine, but generally your chlorine is zero if you condition the water, and the alkalinity you shouldn't be messing with anyways.