Wow . Ive been past that plant a thousand times when i used to live in Santa Cruz.
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I emailed my friend in Santa Cruz. I hope he and his quite elderly mother are OK.
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I took one yoga class with an instructor who was a little too hey-wowish for me. I couldnât figure out how to breathe through my vagina, so I never went back. Our good buddy from HK does a short yoga routine every morning and night, which I assume is just a sequence of stretches.
Itâs huge in our town, but Iâd rather do it by myself than in a class. Iâm not a class person.
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This is so good. Please submit!
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LinkedIn has been making recommendations for those I should follow on LI. One was the current Prime Minister of the United KingdomâŚbecause, of COURSE I want to do that, right? Usually they go into my trashbin in Gmail.
But this one? Yeah, this recommendation I just might do. I mean, if Martha can be BFFs with him, why canât I follow him on LinkedIn! 
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I donât even know why Iâm on it. I automatically delete any email I get from them, and they already end up in the spam folder 
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My friend in Santa Cruz said that thankfully there arenât any problems for himself nor for his mother.
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I had no idea re: the connection between Valkyrie and La Vache qui rit.
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Every time I mention âhoisinâ (I was speaking to the partner about making Chinese beef rolls) I end up saying it like a bad imitation of Jerry Lewis / Professor Frink from the Simpsons.
Somethingâs wrong with me. Oh LAY-dee!!
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This is how my recluse friend and I start each of our voice msgs to each other 
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Moss Landing is a reasonable distance from Santa Cruz. There are many wildlife areas between there and Santa Cruz that I worry about.
I donât know how on earth a lithium battery storage plant was put there. Greed? PG&E buyout?
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This upcoming weekâs 5 entries of the NY Timesâ âMetropolitan Diaryâ. There are some quite good ones! The one about going to the theatre with a 91 year old was my personal favorite.
Free access link:
Original NYT link (paywalled):
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Allowing PG&E in that fragile area was from the start a head-scratcher or, better, fist shaker. Weâve been very lucky for a very long time.
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I like the hot dog with brown mustard one. 
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That was a good one, too. But one must remember not to disparage otherâs food. 
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But I associate brown mustard with Ohio. Cleveland specificallyâŚ
Their competitors- made in Illinois!
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About my favorite brand of brown mustard (I prefer brown to any other color of mustard):
http://www.metnews.com/articles/2004/reminiscing123004.html
(copy/pasted from the above link)
Guldenâs Is Oldest Nationally Sold Prepared Mustard
âGuldenâs traces its beginnings to 1862 when it was founded by Charles Gulden in his Elizabeth Street quarters near the South Street Seaport in downtown New York. For it was here that Charles could obtain the mustard seeds, rare spices and vintage vinegars used for the truly unique flavor of Guldenâs Spicy Brown Mustard. The classic Guldenâs mustard recipe has stayed a well-kept secret for over *138 years. (*this was published in 2004)
âGuldenâs Spicy Brown Mustardâ is the current name of the product. It wasnât called that when Charles Gulden made it. Glass jars containing the mustard simply said:
âCHAS GULDENâ
âNEW YORKâ
Vintage Gulden Mustard jars are traded on the Internet, most identified as being from the 1880s. An article on old bottles appearing on the University of Massachusetts website says of a Guldenâs Mustard container: âWe can date this bottle very accurately because the manufacture suggests that it is pre-1880 (the entire neck is applied, no seam)âŚ.â
While it is known that Charles Gulden produced ready-to-use mustard well before R.T. Frenchâs sons did, there is some doubt as to just when he got started. Although the date set by ConAgra is 1862, labels on Gulden Mustard jars in the 1910s and 1920s said, âEstablished 1867.â
Sales were apparently restricted to New York for a number of years. The April 13, 1905 trademark application for âGuldenâs Mustardâ showed 1875 as the date when the words were first used in interstate commerce.
Charles Gulden and his kin gained various patents on containers for mustard, as well as bottles for other foods including the Guldensâ secondary product, olives.
On March 16, 1875, Jacob Gulden, Charles Guldenâs father, obtained a patent on a mustard bottle, shaped somewhat as the glass Frenchâs ones are today. And on July 5, 1881, he was awarded a patent on a âvessel for holding and dispensing mustardâ featuring a plungerâstill in use on large, commercial bottles of mustard.
Charles Gulden on Jan. 30, 1893 secured a patent on a mustard jar cap, and on March 16, 1897, Charles Gulden Jr. was granted a patent on an improvement upon his fatherâs device.
Guldenâs âspicy brown mustardâ isnât brown, these days. Itâs a darker shade of yellow than Frenchâs, Heinz or Morehouse mustards, but it, like they, is âyellowizedâ with turmeric.
The American public has cottoned to yellow as the color for mustard.
Realizing this, Guldenâs began marketing Guldenâs Prepared Yellow Mustard in 1949, and registered it as a trademark in 1951.
This was not the first time Guldenâs tried to cash in on Frenchâs success with its yellow âcream saladâ mustard. An ad in the July 9, 1925 edition of the Bridgeport (Conn.) Telegram offered to all takers a free jar of âGuldenâs Saladdressing Mustardâ (regularly priced at 15-cents). It was said to be â[s]pecially blended for salad dressing use.â
Charles Gulden, himself, tried other recipes. The Jan. 24, 1904 issue of the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution includes a A&P market ad which lists the price of Guldenâs French Mustard at 10-cents.
New owners in recent years offered other variations, including a hotter version called âGuldenâs Diablo.â But today, there is only the so-called âSpicy Brown Mustard,â ideal for hot dogs topped with warm sauerkraut, for accompanying polish sausage, or on salami sandwiches.
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Is that why the team is called the Browns?
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