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I essentially spent a year living in connecticut.

if you would have asked me a year and three months ago - "would you ever live in connecticut?" I would say... "No way..." it was never one of the places that I ever thought I would stay, let alone live.

of course, that's nothing... lorie has been living in southern illinois for over two years... so really, I've got nothing on her...

but I'm going to be done with connecticut. probably never to return... unless my children decide to go to yale. but that's way off... considering that children aren't even close...

what does connecticut have? well, culturally speaking, I've only been to this anthenium place, where they have works of art... I also caught a jazz quartet there once. I saw the colt building - I think it's where they actually made colt handguns... there's also a river here. I drive by or over it every day. never really pondered it. I went to foxwoods and won two c-notes... I went to a restaurant that used to be a bank in which there is a vault that has tables and chairs for dining. other than that, it is your quitessential generica.

generica: the copy-and-paste cities that surround one or two social/business centers which included cookie-cutter homes, the smattering of big-box stores, shopping malls, and large chain restaurants, the death of small, local retailers.

the only thing different about the different parts of generica is the climate and the scenery.

so there are large cities with downtown areas, small cities with downtown areas, and generica. and farms. and slums. and trailer parks.

ugh. nevermind. this world is to big for these sweeping generalizations - a lot people won't travel more than 500 miles from their homes