We had some storms roll through over the weekend with quite a bit of lightning and heavy winds. My grill was pushed off my deck last year by high winds and to make sure that didn’t happen again we screwed down some 1″ boards on either side (front and back) of the grill. Well, last night the wind PICKED UP my grill and threw it off the deck.

It is pretty banged up and I am going to need to order a few replacement pieces for it, but it looks like it will likely still work. Good thing because I’m supposed to be grilling for friends tonight! In additon to the door being banged up, some of the knobs are broken, the starter button is cracked, and there is a big dent in the side of the hood (pictured right).

Tonight I’ll be making BeerCan Chicken and I’ll make certain post the recipe for the dry rub I use, cooking the chicken itself, as well as photos.

In addition to a banged up grill, my cable has been out since I woke up on Sunday. It sounds like my provider is having power issues, in about 25% of the cities they serve. Ouch!! So in order to work on my websites today I had to head over to a local coffee shop. This is one of the nice things about webmastering, you can work from virtually anywhere!

Well I started my adventure today by heading over to my Coffee House of choice, CornerStone Coffee. It is about 2 miles away from my home and a very quaint little place with wireless and comfortable sitting areas. To my surprise, they are closed. Not just closed, but out of business closed!

The next stop in my quest for some Internet Access (by cell phone GPS) led me to il Bacio Caffe. Also closed down!! It looks like the Starbucks and Biggby Coffee chains have run these great establishments out of business.

While the loss of these establishments is unfortunate I had quite a bit to do today, so I shot over to BiggBy Coffee in Lansing. Sure enough they were open and busy! Unfortunately for me though, they were having Internet issues completely unrelated to my ISP. LOL, I just couldn’t win today, could I?

No problem though, I spoke with those who were running the Coffee Shop and with a little bit of troubleshooting everyone was online again. With all the pitfalls I ran into today, I didn’t get nearly as much as I had hoped accomplished today, but it was a bit of fun. This type of thing would frazzle most people, and would have certainly frustrated me if I had anything super-pressing to get to. Luckily I didn’t, so I enjoyed my little trip around town.

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