I was thinking glass "bottlecaps" until you mentioned filling them with wax. "How would you get wax into a glass ring?" I asked myself. then I realized that you were using the metal cap, not scraping the bottletop against a manhole cover to release the thin, glass ring.

I heard about the fireworks incident that you mentioned on my favorite nationally-syndicated morning radio show on Wednesday morning. My mind immediately went to that fabled Fourth when Frankie dropped the sparkler into Otto's full bag of fireworks, prematurely launching hours' worth of fireworks in under two minutes. Too bad there wasn't a video camera rolling!

That's our rain you're enjoying out there! It was the fifth driest June on record around here.

How many other men crossed their legs when Frylock described the odor of the well water at Kahuna's? The description brings me back to the partial score, "Canoe 1, Balls 0" in the middle of the first inning.