I friend and defriend for many, many reasons - almost all of them not personal. Sometimes it's just because so-and-so's writing isn't what I tend to think of them as, or because my own belligerence gets in the way and I tend to feel compelled to reply when they post conversations that don't work well for me in this type of forum.

Before the planet warmed up, I remember that the tulips would bloom right around my birthday - June 2. Now that's in early may, but thirty years ago it wasn't.