Inside the packing snot was a custom-made, deeply superior yarn bowl (a super bowl indeed!), so the answer to question 5 above must be .... I dunno but I won it!
The superiority of this bowl is inherent in the fact that not only can I knit with the spaghetti this guy is trying to eat ...
but also with his brains as they are drawn out of his earhole!
(for the uninitiated this means that if I'm working on a project which I'm like to take out of the house to work on I'd use the earhole slot so that I can leave the Superb-bowl safely at home. Or if the project is one I'm going to work on at home only, I can use the spaghetti. Or I can use the Superb-bowl to hold two balls of yarn ... genius!).
Oh, and the project is signed!
Thank you so much Jim and Spencer - what a lovely gift!