It's the season

"You're an annoying little ****."

    --- communicated to me after my most recent Internet Chess Club match.

That's one of the many nice things about the ICC: all the nuances and hostilities underlying real chess are preserved.  I'd opened with the Plambeck Fianchetto Attack.  Nothing pleases me more than winning a game with the PFA. 

2)  I'm running out of this excellent mustard, which I've become very dependent upon:

Must figure out how to get some more of it: it came unordered along with a box of wine.