Carcassonne - ossi2, you are a coward and a quitter.

I don't know what the hell it is lately playing Carcassonne on BSW, but I've been having a lot of games in which my opponent quits part way through. The latest time, about an hour ago, my opponent was a registered player with a 61% win ratio. I can see how he keeps it so high - he bugs out if things look bad. I had cut off one of his guys as a side-effect - that is, I played a tile for my own purposes that also happened to screw him. Soon after that, he played a tile for no purpose other than to screw over my guy, which is a perfectly valid strategy...I'll do it to the double-sized guy, the builder, multiple small guys, or just an enormous city. But, dude, it was a single guy on a single city tile. It was just petty. So I didn't feel at all guilty about playing a tile to screw over his 4-tile, 1 shield city with 2 of his guys and his builder in it. It was early in the game - he might even have gotten lucky and drawn the tile that would fit in the gap. Does he play around this problem and try to win anyway? No, instead he quits. Pathetic.

Now, I suppose it's possible that he legitimately lost his connection or something the instant after I played the tile that screwed him, and I apologize for defaming his character if that's the case...but I'm pretty sure he just gave up.

Strawberries

Pick-your-own strawberry season has begun. My mom and I set out Sunday morning for the first day of picking, and were actually their first customers of the year. This may in part be due to the fact that were there about 40 minutes before they officially opened. We know the owner, though, so he let us in to start picking anyway. We got 4 heaping boxes plus whatever we could fit on top of them in about an hour of picking. These are the best strawberries you can get as far as I'm concerned - fresh from the field and not refridgeratred, plus this particular variety that's available now (Red Jewel or something) has the best flavor. They spoil me for strawberries, though - the ones you buy from the store don't taste like much of anything by comparison.