for some reason my unsubscribe didn't work initially, but after the numerous supportive emails I received for trying to be nice to folks, I'm not going to leave because of a little bit of absurd abuse by a couple of intolerant people. As to where Cost-Plus is Myron, it's in most west coast cities, it used to be *the* store when it was only in San Francisco, but since they've gotten to be more of a chain store they've lost a lot of their initial "pizazz" though they are still a cool import store and have a lot of fantastic gourmet stuff. What I was *planning* on doing was going down to the mexican market here in Santa Cruz, if I had enough requests (and funds), getting a couple of pounds of anjos, guajillos, arbos and whatever other hot dried peppers I could find and shipping them off to people who are mexican market deprived. if a few of you want to pop $2 in the mail I'll go there in a week and a half and load up on them. let me know via private email.