< stopping in for a snowstorm coffee :)
Yo, dose-master T! ;-)
Midwest, born and raised. But a whimsical encounter near the end of college had me relocating to the "upstate New York" region for years and years. Returned to midsection due to similarly whimsical events. I promise I'll write the entire biography the day I attain unto a 10,000 reads write.as post. :-)
I'm not in Illinois now, though. I rather despise Illinois, actually - a feeling I imagine originated in my dad occasionally expressing disgust for their making us pay highway tolls even as they ran roughshod over our idyllic Wisconsin.
I've also been underwhelmed in/by Chicago a handful of times, a seeming joke for a large city to someone that used to "Fritz the Cat" New York City, so to speak.