Then, while having lunch at my favorite restaurant, Frisch's the home of the original Big Boy sandwich, I drug out the laptop and found there was a very strong signal available on an unprotected network so I could continue the story I was writing. My favorite place is the local coffee shop, where I spend time working and drinking tea during its regular hours. One year, I was desperate to file a story after hours and thought, "Well, maybe they don't shut it off." I positioned myself in a chair next to the building and worked on the sidewalk in zero-degree cold. Somebody later told me I could have gone into the hallway of the adjacent building since the signal is strong there. The next cold day, I decided to try parking in front of the store and was able to go online in the comfort of my car. A couple of years I had trouble getting on the coffee shop WiFi system but had no problem getting on one named LinkSys, whose reach was most of the block, including Hinkle's, a greasy place that serves some of the world's greatest hamburgers topped with dehydrated onions.