A combination cork puller and writing pen device is provided having a hand grip, a writing pen, the writing pen being movably mounted in the hand grip and movable between a retracted position and an extended position, and a corkscrew-shaped cork pulling tool, the cork pulling tool being movably mounted in the hand grip and movable between a folded-up position and a cork pulling position. Each of the indicators designates a point value selector, each of which has an initial state providing all possible point values obtainable, and with the same probability, from a single roll of a standard pair of dice. Male and female portions of adjacent strap segments are joined together to form a flexible interconnection between adjacent strap segments. The fitting is configured to be releasably secured within one of the detent positions, and the fitting includes a port in communication with the lumen of the elongate tube. In addition, users may communicate with each other \u201clive\u201d, similar to a conventional full duplex telephone call, when messages are synchronously transmitted and rendered in real-time with respect to one another. Call announcements are stored in disk cache.