last lunch on the island

ratatouille and polenta
from: my sister's house
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
comments: headed home to vancouver today, and shari made these delicious leftovers for me while I finished up some computer work for her. click to see the fort I built, last year? with the kids.

LATV is on vacation!

chicken wrap snack
from: mcdonalds
price: $2 each
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
comments: I'm on vacation, I guess. can I be on vacation when I'm not working? I guess so? I'm away, anyway. like today, I was in Sidney, and wandered around while shari took stuart and emma to the dentist. the rest of my time I'm spending on saltspring island. maybe I'll make some wigglies. click to see some birds in Sidney.

we've got a thing that's called radar lunch

bacon, cheese, avocado and jalapeno burger with cajun fries and a coffee
from: cameo (word up)
price: $12ish
rating: &&&&&/&&&&&
listening to: golden earring
comments: very good burger today. they were out of banana peppers, but quick thinking on the chef's part and we got jalepenos. yum. possibly better than banana peppers? after lunch I went to new west. click to see some bridges.

and dave had:

the same? not quite.
comments: greg and I met dave for lunch. wheeeee. click to see the us army invading on canadian soil. how dare they.

and greg had:

a chicken "burger"
comments: click greg's lunch to see the new west fire protection car protecting a fire hydrant. I guess this strategy or parking keeps people from parking in front of hydrants?

don't believe in modern lunch

eggy bagel
from: home
price: unfigureoutable
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: bowie
comments: I finally got my old tv out of my livingroom. this is a big deal. something I've been meaning to do for ages, and I just had my LCD tv in front of the old one. now it's moved. and my livingroom is much nicer. oh, and I got free cable today. for a month. perfect for unemployment!

it a hard part, but the true lunch way

cheddar bacon burger
from: triple-o's
price: $10ish for combo
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: kings of leon
comments: went to science world today. was weird ordering my cheddar bacon burger from inside the triple-o's. if you click the pic you will see how the staff there sees navarckers.

and erin had:

an original burger
comments: and in this world of science, I saw a frog. you wanna see the frog? click erin's lunch.

livin. luncheon. she's just a woman.

chunky steak n potato
from: iga
price: $2.69?
rating: &&.5/&&&&&
listening to: led zeppelin
comments: it's getting harder to blog on time with all this free time i have. that's also because my niece and nephew are in town. so I been hanging out with them. click to see the heron we saw down by the beach.

the power of lunch is a curious thing

hiannese chicken laksa
from: Cafe Deelite (broadway and trutch)
price: $9
rating: &&&&&/&&&&&
listening to: huey lewis and the news
comments: I met greg again for lunch and some errand runnings. click to see the london drugs on broadway. drive by shooting style.

and greg had:

hiannese chicken
comments: click greg's lunch to see commercial drive all warpy wigglin.

this must be underwater lunch. the way I feel it.

jalapeno and cheese twisted delight
from: cobb's bakery
price: $6ish
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: smoke city
comments: no guest lunch today. barely a lunch, really. too rainy out. make rain stop. but for now, click my lunch to see an awesome and amazing collection of photos. those crazy birds!

ooh baby I lunch your way. everyday.

gyu don and dynamite roll
from: tamaki sushi (broadway and arbutus)
price: $10
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: frampton
comments: met greg for lunch today. click to see some guy trying to steal the future shop sign. I figure he wants to take it and open his own future shop knock off store. that's the only possible explanation.

and greg had:

combo a
comments: this restaurant is pretty good. not great, but you get exactly what you expect for your buck. click to see a broadway street a-wigglin.

we got to let lunch rule!

pork, egg, n greens soup leftovers
from: kwong chow, originally
price: n/a, cuz its just leftovers
listening to: lenny kravitz
comments: my first lunch without a job. and it's leftovers. that's probably gonna happen a lot. maybe I won't even eat lunch somedays. in that case, maybe I'll post my dinner and call it lunch. what makes lunch 'lunch' anyway? does it have to be eaten between certain hours? does it have to be your 'middle' meal? if you skip breakfast, is lunch then breakfast? and if you skip dinner? what then?!?! click to see chinatown.

I also reheated some:

spicy tofu
comments: click to see a link that killerX57 sent me this morning. a plethora of cool stop motion videos.

goodbye navarik!!

brioche bun and muffin
from: Swiss Bakery
price: $2.40 x 100?
rating: &&&&&/&&&&&
comments: so, today was my final day at navarik. I thought it was about time I gave props to Swiss Bakery, and the girls there who've made my mornings delicious for the past year or so. you see, every morning I go in and get a muffin and a brioche bun. the muffin is breakfast, the brioche bun is because the muffin isn't quite enough, and it's only 70 cents. so, after a while of getting the same food, they started pre-packaging it for me, and having it ready every time I came in. so nice. thanks swiss bakery girls! oh, and click to see my final tally for top-listened songs while I was at navarik. its a little scary to realize that most of the top 20 were video game related songs (see red dots).

and for lunch (part2) I had:

burgers!
comments: the burgers were from Splitz Grill. since there were 5 of us leaving today, a group went out for lunch. a group of 16 people! crazy. the burgers were delicious, as usual. click to see one of the 3 tables. we filled.

and tommy had:

a tuna burger
comments: there were many lunches to take photos of. but most were blurry and wasted. oh well. click to see chris sadly sitting all by himself. I guess it's because he stinks?

and lunch #3 was:

beers and catered appetizers
comments: the farewell party was tasty and awesome. also, we had a record number of people on the roof! 16 peeps went out there to see where I'd been disappearing to every afternoon for the last year or so. click to see a bunch of those people spinning in place. magic!

more appys
comments: click to see what it looks like when people throw their hand in the air when they truly do no care. who cares the least? hard to say. you want one more roof wiggly? here's a standing still fail.

ok, this post is getting way too big and out of control. one more thing I'd like to say, it's been fun working with you all, and I'm sure some of us will again! ok, ONE more thing to say, something I noticed while posting this, every time I leave a job, I eat burgers. I did it at webct and atimi and now here. where next? who knows. not me.

lunch. I don't like to see so much pain.

sushi extravaganza including this sashimi
from: the clubhouse
price: lots
rating: good!
listening to: peter gabriel
comments: today we ate a bunch of foods at the clubhouse. it was pretty tasty. click to see jesus and his family chillin' in a window front.

and bill had:

some tofu curry
comments: click bill's lunch to see him doing some strange dance whilst stuck to a wall.

and the beer was:

warm
comments: so they gave us a free (colder) pitcher. and stuck our warm pitcher on ice. mmm... beer. click to see who served us today.

and for dessert I had:

an appley cakey
comments: dave organized a bake sale at work today to raise money for his upcoming charity bike ride. holly made this appley cake and it was really yummy. click to see some socially conscious graffiti. or is that supposed to just be called 'art'?

I'm watchin' you now, with a whole lotta lunch to give

nagahama ramen
from: Menya
price: $7
rating: &&&&.2/&&&&&
listening to: daniel lanois
comments: ramen for lunch. yum. now, if you click my lunch, put your headphones on, or crank up your speakers. you are about to hear some awesome music, made in a most awesome way. overall, it's just awesomeness. track 3 is probably my fave on there right now... but they're all so damn awesome. and awesome, as well. thanks for the link, hey ritchie!

and phil had:

miso ramen
comments: click phil's lunch to see him wearing his jacket as a hat. and be grateful that I didn't make a wiggly of it. I tried, but it was just too hard for even me to look at.

and andy had:

same as me
comments: click andy's to see the obligatory wiggly. then click on my lunch at the top again, and listen to that music again. it's quite awesome.

Can I just have one more moondance with you, my lunch?

sandwishes
from: culinary capers? it was free lunch in office
price: free. I just said that
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to:
comments: we had a lunch and learn today. that meant delicious catered sandwishes. click to see main street wiggling from my walk to work. the barber pole is the best part of the wiggly

and tommy also had:

sandwishes
comments: click tommy's lunch to see some satellite dishes a-wigglin' from the roof top view point.

and if you don't lunch me now, you will never lunch me again

spicy beefy noodley
from: Cuu Long (knight & kingsway
price: $10ish with an avocado shake
rating: &&&&.4/&&&&&
listening to: fleetwood mac
comments: hey ritchie had to drive to mec today, so he picked me up and we went for delicious avocado shakes. good times. great food. click to see science world sporting its new snowy look today!

and hey ritchie had:

grilled pork n spring rolls
comments: click ritchie's lunch to see the vancity building this evening. this daylight savings sure has made the sun stay out longer. nice. is it just me, or are those giffed-clouds all rainbowy?

and meanwhile, in washington DC, kevin had:

a spy's breakfast
comments: kevin took a break from his work in houston to visit DC. seems far to go for a weekend jaunt. but I guess he wanted the spy breakfast real bad. click to see puffy clouds being puffy.

every little bit, every little big, every little bit of my lunch

burger shots
from: burger king
price: $7 for a combo with 4 burgers
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: led zeppelin
comments: these burgers are very tiny. but here they look gigantic because toki wartooth appears life size. or not. click to see a very cool bear. he's chillin.

and the wrapper had:

eating instructions
comments: these little burgers were kinda disappointing. cute, sure, but boring. this wrapper explained how to separate them before eating. click to see a kaleidoscope-like pic shot through a glass block.

alone with their heartbeats, in lunch with each other

#38 (pork n seafood pho)
from: Pho Le
price: about $10 with lychee shake
rating: &&&&.4/&&&&&
listening to: rheostatics
comments: today I met greg and hey ritchie for lunch. fun. we went to the pho place above bale. click to see the dragon I saw out the window.

and greg had:

some pho
comments: click greg's lunch to see some wiggly clouds.

and hey ritchie had:

also pho
comments: click ritchie's pho to see bill killed. crushed this time, by a large metal beam. true story. oddly, the next linked wiggly is also true. he fell off the roof to his killing.

and the nice ladies gave us:

spring rolls... on the house!
comments: that's right, we were given this spring roll for free. yay! for no apparent reason. I have a feeling that they were like "omg.. that's gwilli from LATV! we should give then some free food!" and so that's probably what happened. and this was not your usual spring roll. it seemed to have squash or pumpkin in it. it was quite tasty. and getting it as a bonus, just makes me like that place even more. it's upstairs... on main street... above BaLe. go there sometime. you 'll like it.

I've gotta little bit of lunch left. Just a little.

spinach and feta omelette with bacon
from: nice cafe
price: $10? with coffee?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: led zeppelin
comments: good breakfast lunch today. and good news for wiggly haters. I link to no wigglies. I just didn't take many photos today. oh well. click my lunch to sponsor dave as he rides his bicycle to cure cancer. go on. sponsor him. I did. :)

and phil had:

breakfast
comments: click phil's lunch to see a brand new blog started by no other than Sumant. yeah. any bets as to how long he keeps this going?

and dana had:

alberni benny
comments: ok. I don't know what else to link to. someone send me something totally amazing. I"ll link to it later. _____---____ updated! funniest video I saw this week. click click!

touch me, baby, tainted lunch

sushi
from: ichibankan express
price: $10.
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: soft cell
comments: andy searched for a notary public at lunch today. I made him walk far, and I got sushi. ha. click to see some fungi we saw on the way.

and kevin had:

prime rib
comments: kevin's lunch here is in the chevron cafeteria in houston. he took the pic with his blackberry. I'm not gonna work with kevin again, cuz he's gonna be away until after I leave. bye kevin! thanks for the lunch pic, and I think your laser was shipped today... for real this time. click to see a fancy GT-R that I saw on broadway... I just missed getting a passing audi R8 in the same photo.

and here's a panarama!

I'm a lunch man! oooh baby, I'm a lunch man!

beef udon and a spicy tuna roll
from: Tamaki Sushi (broadway near arbutus)
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: Otis Redding
comments: Andy had to do some insurance dealings with Wawanesa today, so we drove west. and tried this sushi place. it was not bad. not amazing, but cheap, and pretty tasty. in the linked pic, you see a mountain peak, and some rocky peaks. this photo was in response to a phone call I got from Ed on the weekend, where he thought he was seeing some new part of the mountain, that neither he nor I had ever noticed before. I was thinking may be it was a house dropped by the aliens on friday, but it seems to just be a rock formation. and upon investigation old flickr photos, the rocks were always there. of course, this probably means two things: 1) the aliens made their base look like rocks. 2) the aliens edited all past photos on the internet so's to not arouse suspicions.

and andy had:

box B
comments: andy thought the same about the food here. decent, cheap, but nothing to write home about. click to see a freezer I noticed at the superstore. it seems when frozen items leak, they see no point in cleaning them out. makes for an interesting wiggly, as I see it.

and yvette had:

chili chicken con queso
comments: yvette had this as take out from Argo's. it looked tasty. I've had it before. it is pretty good. click to see Nikita working on her goggie treat.