"Curse You, Red Baron!"

So I was out at the First Presbyterian Cemetery on Steele Creek Road, which is a nice concentration of portals that in Ingress is known as a 'farm'.  I had hoped to blow up some blue fields, but someone got to them before I did, and it wasn't as lucrative for my AP balance as I had hoped.   However there were blue portals to hit, and as I did, CenNova was getting attack reports.

He was close by and decided to drive over to catch me.  At this cemetery there are some iron gates that they close and lock at night to keep cars out.  However, you can enter on foot, and I'm told they don't mind if agents do.

So I was half way into the place and I see a white bronco sized vehicle in the distance and someone pops out a hand and waves very cheerfully.  I wondered if this was an agent, and in particular CenNova.

I was reaching the limit of my strength to walk, but I still had half the graveyard to visit.  I was also trying to complete a "mission" which required me to hack all the ports in that graveyard.  I am finding that if I'm not careful, I can "over do it" and exhaust myself while playing Ingress.  Sometimes as I walk out there I get a little wobbly on the legs. But I also believe that it is pushing me to the level of exercise that I need, I just have to be good to give myself adequate rest.  For example, I did go to bed about 21:00 last night.  Other nights I tire out enough and then I get Laura to do some driving as we hit some good drive by portals together.

So it was CenNova, that was waving, and he drove up the back way, where there are no gates and we had a fine chat.  He opened with "Hello, Snoopy!" so I knew it was him.

On my very first night of play, there was a blue portal with just a single resonator on it near my home.  I walked up to it with Matthew to demonstrate how this game worked to kindle interest.  So I attacked the portal with my Level 1 bursters and after throwing about 30 of them, I stopped.  I told Matthew, that I wasn't sure I was doing anything, but also wondered if the enemy was protecting the portal.  Well it was CenNova's portal to begin with.

The following night I was able to make a couple of control fields from the Charlotte Premium Outlet mall to some of the portals in the area, and covered the blue portal I tried to kill the night before.

The fields didn't last long before they were popped by CenNova, and that's when I broadcast chat to @CenNova "Curse you, Red Baron!", and thus started a relationship with the other side.

Anyway, the point is that you can't really see your enemies as enemies in this game - it's all just a game.