Presenting to you, in unordered list format, a little list of things I have taken away from this tiring experience.

• Always be prepared.
• No seriously, always be prepared. That means taking the goddamn news cast seriously.
• Power outages always happen during critical moments of television shows you are watching.
• Monopoly should be standard issue in your no-power recreation kit.
• Cats and candles do not mix.
• Coleman lanterns are the king of more than just camping, they should be part of your no-power toolkit.
• Kittens do not care if you have power or not. They are still kittens. They still have sharp pointy bits.
• Verizon Wireless truly has the most reliable network during an extended outage.
• Diets are for sissies. What did you think you were going to do, blend a smoothie with your face? TIME FOR SUBWAY!
• Gov. Dannel Daniel Malloy is a stuttering idiot. If you don’t have something to say, don’t say it. “Um” “Ah” “Eh” and other useless transition words used to fill in empty air space just make you sound stupid.
• Remember Irene? Remember how the coast towns were out and we weren’t? Guess who is laughing last?
• If you got into a gas line and only put three gallons of gas in your already full car, you are the biggest cock/twat on the planet. Die in a fire.
• Reliable power, or trees. Pick one.
• When someone asks CL&P if they are a God, you say no.
• We finally can say we were the 99%. Without power.
• It takes almost a week to fix transmission and substation systems. By themselves. Think of all the things that you can do in that time. Have children, build a tree house, perform neuro-surgery. Power is serious business though.
• There are way too many laptop and cell phone users per square mile than there are old people.
• Placing a grill or running generator indoors or running a car in a garage awards you the most prestigious award one can receive in this lifetime. A Darwin award.
• Wifi tethering is not exactly reliable to work with when everyone is crowding onto the connection to do work.
• All I wanted to do was play Daytona USA. Love you too, Mother Nature.

More to be added later, or suggest some additions in the Comments