Things i Am Known For

• If i say "Gesundheit!" i might be blessing you after a sneeze, or maybe not.  That's my word for, "Whatever.  Explain it or not; you are talking nonsense, and i don't really care."
• My book club talks about "doing a Valerie."  That's to read a book in any order that's not straight first page to last page.  i skip around radically in a book, seldom never read straight from beginning to end.  It's not uncommon that i read the last page or chapter first.
• that annoying lower-case i.
• "It's the twenty-first century."  This is a catch-all phrase for THINGS CHANGE.  Usually it's a negative - we have less privacy - but it's not all bad.  Our horizons are wider now than they used to be.  My drive to Max's school, back when, would've been a day's event or overnight stay.  Now, i can do it a couple of times, and hit other parts of the city if needed.  Whew.
• "Technology is great when it works."  'Nuff said?
• Machines misbehave around me.  Sometimes in theoretically impossible ways.  i've taken to calling it TVF (The Valerie Factor).