Hey Nancy!   
      
    NB> unless somewhere incorporated in the routine is something also   
    NB> identifying the source of the message...   
      
   In the case of UUIDs, there are the Version 1 and 2 UUIDs that incorporate the   
   MAC address and datetime stamp of the local machine.  Version 3 and 5 UUIDs   
   encorporate namespaces instead of date and MAC addresses.  Personally I prefer   
   the purely random Version 4 UUIDs.   
      
    NB> you'd indicated the good possibility that it might last through   
    NB> 2018   
      
   Since then I have had my doubts about it making it to the 2019-01-01   
   cybertoast.   
      
   Speaking of single malts, it turns out there are two local sources (Vancouver   
   Island).  Neither gives the age of their offerings but I don't believe they   
   have been around long enough to have a 12yo.   
      
    NB> after all, the next one is a decade year for me   
      
   I didn't know that.  Thank you for the heads up.   
      
    NB> There is that bottle that your daughters bought you   
      
   Dec 1997 which is just over 20 years ago.  A very tough act to follow.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Cybertoasts of note:   
       2019-01-01 is  334 days from now and falls on a Tuesday.   
       2024-11-05 is 2469 days from now and falls on a Tuesday.   
   --- GNU bash, version 4.4.18(1)-release (x86_64-silvermont-linux-gnu)   
    * Origin: Little Mikey's Brain - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001)