wtg wolf on landing your white whale!
too bad about your car though. sorry.
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At a store the other day, I found a bin of tiny knick knacks called "
message capsules". It looked like a little box of metal pills. They were, appropriately enough, capsule shaped. Each half had a knurled rim and when spun apart revealed two small caps like valve stem caps, but one male, one female. The center of the male end was hollow, and allowed enough space for a tightly rolled up slip of paper, about the size of a cookie fortune. They were $2.50 each.
wolf, have you seen these in any of your caches?