making lunch in the afternoon with Cecilia

special #1
from: la casita
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: paul simon
comments: welcome to the end of the month. tomorrow, us hootsuiters embark on a mystery retreat weekend. of course, we all now know what happened cuz I'm so behind on me posts. anyway, click to see the gift boxes we were all given today in preparation for the weekend.

and bill had:

special #2
comments: click bill's lunch to for a sneak preview of the weekend getaway. that bus was our first form of transportation.

and david had:

chimichangas
comments: one more linked wiggly of that school bus. this time, Mika is eagerly anticipation the trip. come on guys! let's go!

lunch, baby, lunch. it's written all over your face

burger
from: LanaLou's
price: I forget
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: INXS
comments: I'm really far behind on my posts. perhaps it's because of the long weekend coming up, which is actually in the past now. yeah. click my lunch to see gavin's amazing mobile hax0r box. it looks like it should be in a movie.

and richerd had:

huevos rancheros on nachos
comments: click richerd's lunch to see eric washing dishes. with a gun.

and bill had:

taco salad?
comments: keeping with the gavin-in-wigglies theme, click bill's lunch to see him modding his squirt gun. did it work? not sure, actually. I should ask.

yes it's real, yes it's real lunch

daily special
from: deacon's corner
price: $9.50
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: john lennon
comments: heyo. look, it's another late blog post. in this episode, the gang was hanging out by the east van. click to see it. I know it looks like everyone is hovering together. but I gotta tell ya the truth. it's shopped. left team was hovering together and so was right team. but not altogether. I used magic to make that happen.

and erin had:

the special
comments: click erin's lunch to see the message she wrote for the kitchen staff. sadly, it was dipped in, and illegible by the time it went back. I really like the idea, though.

and gavin had:

the special, too?
comments: linked from gavin's lunch is another attempt at hovering in front of the East Van. however, in this one, it looks like gavin is controlling his dancing puppets with a slight movement of his hand. magic.

and bill had:

veggie stuff
comments: it's been a long time since we killed bill. so here's one for you. inverted and getting shot.

and david had:

the beltch
comments: click david's lunch to see bill working his water wizardry. he's +200 water mana now. not a big enough gif for you? perhaps you'd prefer this one

and my lunch has lost its feeling

all you can eat sushi
from: BC Sushi (broadway n arbutus)
price: $12
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: j. mascis and the fog
comments: I met greg for lunch today in kits. we had all-I-chose-to-eat sushi. I did not feel the need to eat all I could. that always ends in pain. anyway, you probably wanna see his cute kid, right? click my lunch.

we also had:

this. and much more.
comments: this linked wiggly is from a bike ride on the weekend. it's my old school. old school. heh. but they are planning to move that old wooden building (on the left) into the hole they are digging. crazy. I should find out what day they are actually moving it.

show lunch to others, we all brothers like the Bee Gees

picnic board and soup
from: nelson the seagull
price: $15ish?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: danger doom
comments: erin joined us again today to try a new place. nelson the seagull, it's called. wonder if it's named after this song. anyway it's real good. the 'picnic board' was huge and tasty. click to see it with my soup.

and erin had:

a sandwich
comments: something else that was cool about this place is that their cash register was an ipad! click to see and and the cool holder they made for it. oh, and the very friendly cashier.

and bill had:

a veg sandwich
comments: click bill's lunch to see him and erin modelling the new hootsuite hoodies. can you tell which is which? hint: obviously bill wouldn't be carrying a handbag. or would he??

meanwhile, back at the office, richerd had:

some korean dish from coma food truck
comments: richerd loves the coma food truck. as do I. but I ted to want a bit of a walk at lunch. anyway, click to see yet another food truck/cart that was out back. actually, I did have some leftovers from this cart later. it was pretty tasty. thanks davidchan!

you don't need me to show the way, lunch

a burger (and a milkshake and fries)
from: vera's
price: $16ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the beatles
comments: yet another ex-coworker lunch meet up. this time with webcters. it was vivian's last week working downtown, so her, donald, peter, and erin met bill and I. good times. erin got a day off work and ended up having lunch just on the other side of the wall of her work. that was awkwardly wordy. don't read it. just click my lunch.

and vivian had:

a burger
comments: I have no wigglies of my lunchmates today, though. instead, have a click to see hootsuite's favourite baristas.

and don had:

a burger
comments: click don's lunch to see eric and bill battling with their pokemugs! eric's +10 water serpent is dealing some serious damage.

and peter had:

a burger
comments: click peter's lunch to see what I really want. what I really really want.

and erin had:

a burger
comments: bill also ate with us. but I figured you've all seen his lunch enough times. know what you haven't seen enough? wigglies of bill doing goofy things! click for one more.

with all the crazy doubts you got, I lunch you even still

clubhouse
from: deacon'c corner
price: $11.75
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: Sugar
comments: deacon's wednesday. hmph. no such thing. but we did it anyway. click to see a confused parking metre.

and bill had:

veggie scramble
comments: we were totally stoked when we saw bill's toast stack. now click to see summer in vancouver. people playing volleyball. that's summer.

I'm crazy for lunch, but I'm not coming on

enchilada and a tacotino
from: arturo's food truck
price: $11?
rating: &&&.7/&&&&&
listening to: nick cave covering leonard cohen
comments: we met more excoworkers today. from navarik, again. sumant, andy and noel. but for some reason, all the wigglies are of bill. once he got a taste of the limelight, he just couldn't stop, I guess. well, click my lunch to see sumant hovering the best. right in front of tony's office. tony couldn't make it. so we hovered for him.

and sumant had:

his finger in his food
comments: sumant is moving to barcelona for work. crazy. he better have an extra room for visitors. click to see bill just flying on by.

and bill had:

veggie food, I'm guessing
comments: click bill's lunch to see what? bill. yeah. he's jumping for joy and looking as fashionable as ever. I'm sure randy would approve.

and and and andy had:

some food
comments: click andy's lunch to see more bill. yeah. more. in this wiggly, you can see him and eric celebrating the solstice in the only way they know how.

and noel had:

already finished his lunch
comments: bill and I were a bit late. so noel had eaten already by the time we got there. so you get to see him instead of his food. what a treat, huh? anyway, click for one more episode of the bill show. in this episode, our hero dangerously juggles scissors! yeah! that's right! juggles scissors! they won't even let me cut paper with them anymore, but suuuuure bill can just juggle them all he wants. sometimes life just isn't fair.

it does not bother me to say this isn't lunch

banana pancakes n stuff
from: nice cafe
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: counting crows
comments: met some travis, dave and michal for some good ol nice cafe breakfasty lunch. but I made no wigglies. except the above, of course. so linked here is some street hairstyling from the car free day wigglies.

and dave had:

a boigah
comments: click dave's lunch to see another wiggly from car free day. this one is of one of our dutch interns at hootsuite. he didn't know we were there. btw, it's the bearded guy. not the guy who seems terribly irate at him. haha. so intense!

and michal had:

sandwich
comments: click michal's lunch to see a little girl and a chicken.

and travis had:

eggs n stuff
comments: tavis's lunch links to a bunch of engines on a rack. heavy metal.

bonus weekend lunch!

pad thais
from: bob likes thai food stand at Car Free Main street
price: $4
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
comments: today was Car Free day in the city. 4 places. Commercial Drive, Main Street, Kits and West End. of course I went to the one that was a block away from me. I met richerd there! actually, the whole weekend was full of wigglies. 30 Megs of wigglies. on saturday, I checked out the KMS tools car show out in coquitlam with my bro and dad to celebrate fathers' day.

its not one you lunch, but its familiar enough

meat special
from: la casita
price: $10ish
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: wintersleep
comments: on my way to work today, I passed a police impound yard and spotted some of the destroyed cars from the riot. in fact, the one linked from my lunch may be the ones we saw get flipped over. go on, click it.

and erin had:

chimichanga combo
comments: erin joined us for lunch, as you can see. click her lunch to see some of the truly destroyed cars.

and bill had:

veg special
comments: on the way back from lunch, we saw something at the firehall that made us change our route. go on... click to find out what!

and david had:

his tshirt staring at his meal
comments: so yeah... a leprechaun. crazy! and in his hand? a box of lucky charms. you just can't make this stuff up. and upon further investigation of the photos... no one is looking at him! like... maaaaaybe they can't see him?? only we could?? maaaaaaaagic!

her lunch is a violent spiral

combo F
from: le pho bistro (hastings n dunlevy)
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: tv on the radio
comments: so yeah. riot last night. that happened. I happened to be inside when it broke out. so we stayed there. and watched it from 10 floors up. wanna see what we saw? click my lunch. warning... you will see extreme idiocy.

and kemp had:

some other dish
comments: click kemp's lunch to see the view we had for the riot. awesome wiggly, too. watch it for a bit... it's like the city is scared and shaking.

and some other had:

more food.
comments: oh yeah, the food here is great. however, don't come in with a group of 9. it takes a long time to get foods. now, one more wiggly. this one of some cops doing their duty. know how I know I'm getting old? this was the first time I've seen multiple cops take down 1 guy and thought to myself... "nice work".

go canucks go?

vietnamese subs
from: Bale
price: $9
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the city
comments: so, I think the world knows what happened today. the canucks lost the finals of the stanley cup and the city showed what great losers they were. literally... big time losers. click my lunch to see the crowd on georgia street while the game was on. well before any destruction started. see how happy everyone was before some losers started ruining it all? big thanks to zoltan and françoise for giving us a birds eye view of the celebration. check tomorrow's blog to see what went down when things turned ugly. ... ok, I'll give one preview. it's a 5M gif.. let it load.

I'll cross the sky for your lunch

grilled cheese with bacon and tomato
from: deacon's corner
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: U2
comments: today, we had a release at work. it didn't go as smoothly as hoped. but these things happen. if you click my lunch you will see what the work neighbourhood looks like at almost 5am. long night.

and bill had:

veggie scramble
comments: also today, bill broke his mug. this was the mug that replaced the last one he broke. I'm all outa back ups this time. RIP Master Shake.

and david had:

his 'pickles' t-shirt on
comments: too many lunch photos today. sorry. linked from david's is richerd doing his william tell routine. I guess eric was william tell in this situation. for the record, after a few shots he did get a direct hit.

and kate had:

the idea to add the tomato to the sandwich. nice one, kate!
comments: in the deliriousness of the late night release, eric and bill practiced one of their epic feats of goofiness. click to see it.

and paul had:

the right idea
comments: paul's lunch, the cheapest of all of them, looked awesome and made me almost want to change my order. but back to eric and bill's feats... in this linked wiggly, beier decided to join them. ha!

as long as I know how to lunch, I know I'll be alive

fish n chips
from: HAVE cafe
price: $10ish
rating: &&&.8/&&&&&
listening to: cake
comments: it's funny that I'm using cake lyrics for today's title. cuz today's lunch was all about cake, too. they advertised these 'turtle' cakes (like the candy) for just over $2 a slice. so we jumped at it. but they had actually already sold em all. so we were placated with other cake. there was ice cream in em all, and they were very tasty. wanna see? click.

and bill had:

action pasta
comments: so there's some sporting events occurring now that involves our city somehow. I've been doing my best not to mention it. to create a little hockey-free oasis on the web. looks like I'm gonna ruin that today. but it's worth it, I think. it's not everyday you get to see a snack stadium. go on, click bill's lunch to see eric with his creation. you want detail?

and david had:

soup n sandwich
comments: the linked gif here is of richerd's desk. richerd is unlike me in so many ways, but this way, I never suspected. the gif is spilled hoisin on his desk. and he was just working away with it like that for hours. there's no way I could do that. a spill on my desk means immediate action. but richerd is richerd. it sat like that for a couple hours.