I was chilling the first of two brews today, already had a few Lagunitas IPA's and for some reason, it was taking longer than usual to get to pitching temp.

Come to find out I forgot to unplug my kettle at 0 minutes when I dropped in my immersion chiller.
Whoops. I got it down to 100 degrees before I noticed that there were too many things plugged into the outlet.
It cooled down to 68 real fast once I unplugged the elements.

Ah well, if that's the worst thing that happens today, i'll be happy.

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That'll learn ya!

Yup, done that too, more than once actually.

Everything else went ok Sunday. Pitched the yeast on my lager yesterday morning once the wort and yeast starter both got down to 52. Now the waiting begins.

I had something similar. I was doing a 10 gallon batch of stout and a 5 gallon batch that I partigyled off of the stout grain. I did the 5 gallons inside on the stove and the 10 outside on propane. They both got done around the same time so I put my coil chiller in the keggle and put the 5 gallon batch pot in a tub and had the outflow of the chiller going into the tub to chill both at the same time with the same water.

Well, my digital thermometer took a tumble during this time and would not go down below 170degrees. I thought maybe it was due to the 10 gallons and thick walls of the keggle. I let it set out there for close to an hour with constant water flow. Digital thermo didnt change. Grabed my old dial thermo and it was at 60 degrees.

Probably had been for quite a while. Good thing was that the tub method that I used for the 5 gallon batch worked quite well so I didnt have to use any additional water to chill it after the 10 gallons was cool.