That's not a bad idea....

I'm just glad the end of the dipstick has a bend in it where it folds on itself, so it's too big to get sucked into the oil filter ($50 oil filter...)

So now all I really need is the gasket (it's just a normal rubber gasket, but they say to replace it with every service, not sure if that means it's one time use or if it just should be replaced at 30k miles), which I bet Auto Haus will have.