bye bye charles!

enchiladas and a potato taco
from: chronic taco
price: I forget
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
comments: today, another coworker left us. I guess as summer ends, people are ready to start something new. which backs up my theory that the year really ends when summer end. and starts new in september. happy new years, everyone. click to wave goodbye to charles.

and bill had:

to spin his lunch
comments: click bill's lunch to see him sporting the fancy new

and nori had:

burrito
comments: I think there were over 30 people at this goodbye lunch.  crazy. click bill's lunch to see how simon says goodbye. bwa ha ha.

and (i think) paul had:

taco salad?
comments: in other news, I got to go with my nephew to his first rock concert. Trooper.  awesome. he was pretty stoked about it all.  oh! in other other news, my morning started pretty awesomely cuz Holly made me coffee for the first time in ages. yay, Holly!

echo all the worlds in laughs of lunch

congee n potstickers
from: Hon's
price: $7ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: sound garden
comments: click to see roadwork. boring. meh.

and bill had:

veg
comments: click for fish.

and chris had:

briskets
comments: later tonight, eric will go to a crazy dinner with many many people dressed in white. "#dinnerenblanc"  something like that. click to see the people meeting.

and david had:

this
comments: click to see eric calling agnes and trying to find her in the sea of white.

and ken had:

mapau!
comments: whoah. too many guest lunches. oh well. click for one more shot of people in white.

ain't that close to lunch?

seafood pasta
from: HAVE cafe
price: $12?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: david bowie
comments: this morning, I saw a poster that made me laugh. click to see it. 'be a part of history" while metallica makes a 3D concert video. hahahahaha. what history is this??  the history of people not caring at all any more?  one cool thing is that a friend of mine is a camera assistant on that shoot.

and billz had:

this
comments: in work news, a few people will leave the office this week. click to wave goodbye to Rado and Grant. bye guys! see you again, I'm sure!

and chris had:

daily special
comments: it's a tuna melt. click to see the gift that Steamworks brought to our office. fun balloon!

and when they tell me lunch is pain

#10
from: hanoi pho
price: $11?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: janis joplin
comments: you guys know the Maynard's liquidation store at 2nd and Main?  I do.  I know it well. having done 90% of my xmas shopping there last year and all. anyway, when I walked by today, I noticed that their 2 shipping containers full of electronics were all burned. yikes. click to see the remains.

and andrew?  had:

#21
comments: I'm too far behind in my lunches. was this andrew?  I'm not sure. I think it was. I do remember that ken liked this watch whether it was andrew's or not. click to see another angle of burned electronics.

and bill had:

EV
comments: click bill's lunch to see him rolling. like a wheel barrow. a wheel billow. that's as clever as I can go on this one.

like a pencil point. a lunch bite.

bagelwich
from: home
price: n/a
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: paul simon
comments: another bagelwich monday. yay.

bonus weekend post!

vietnamese sub
from: Bale
price: $3.50
rating: &&&&&/&&&&&
comments: I met up with eric this weekend to throw the ol frisbee around. we also et some food and played on the playground. click my lunch to see me bouncing on the playground.  and now i'd like to say something about all these fancy restaurants that sell $10+ "bahn mi" sandwiches.  I can get 3 of these (the amazing bbq pork one, for example) from Bale... and they are just as good. f'reals.

and eric had:

pancit palabok
comments: he got this at Goldilocks. it was tasty. whilst eating, we also watched some wasps killing a caterpillar. crazy. now click eric's lunch to see him planking at the playground. perhaps you'd prefer to see his spiderman impression?

all the lunch I felt hadn't been in vain

calzone
from: incendio
price: $16
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: primal scream
comments: hi. this is my blog. sometimes it falls behind. like always. wheeee. this post is for a friday. this was a fun friday where we opened eric's giant vodka bottle. also, my portrait was painted. wanna see that?  click my lunch.

and charles had:

pizza
comments: this is charles' penultimate friday lunch with us. he will be leaving to pursue his own something er other. click to see the mobile bar of the night.

and david had:

pizza
comments: click to see the mobile bar attacking the night owls in support. hope we didn't ruin their night.

and eric had:

seafood pasta
comments: click to see eric drinking that giant bottle of vodka. that's all.  gotta go.

when your lunch burns up in the mire

bordersomething burger
from: LanaLou's
price: $11ish?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: wolfmother
comments: it's been a while since we went to lanalous. it's still tasty. click to see eric pretending to drink the biggest bottle of vodka that I ever seen. and don't worry, next time you see a wiggly of this bottle, there will be no pretending.

and bill had:

quinoa bowl
comments: click bill's lunch. the pretending is already over. they, like, iced each other n stuff.

and we started with:

miso yam poutine
comments: click the poutine to see a paparazzi style wiggly. that's rob. he's in support and had a tough day. so they got him this awesome cake. stuff like that is what makes our support team awesome.

happy birthday, eric!

steak sandwich n soup
from: brioche
price: $12?
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
comments: today was eric's birthday. a special birthday lunch meant going to Brioche and eating at crab park. fun. click to see us at the beach.

and eric had:

another number added to his age
comments: let's just skip to the best gif here. click his lunch. see him fly.

and alex had:

salmon pasta
comments:  click alex's lunch to see them all hoisting eric. hoisting. there's a word I don't type very often.

and rahim had:

pizza
comments: click click. see lunchers. easy.

and steve had:

this sandwich
comments: steve is the newest wiggly maker on the scene!  wanna see one of his awesome wigglies?? just click his lunch. you know the drill.

you supply the night, baby, I'll supply the lunch

#21
from: hanoi pho
price: $8?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: toto
comments: deacon's tuesday seems to have dissipated. I think people got tired of their fares. not this person, though. I'll be bach. click to see ken's disgust.

and beier had:

#1?
comments: click beier to see beier. easy right?  I can't remember why he was watching my iPod. but he was. and now you're watching him.

and bill had:

EV
comments: I only made the 2 wigglies today. so click bill's lunch to see the lion's gate bridge from my weekend getaway. here's some interesting coincidence... you all know my tumblr that streams my wigglies about 1.5 years after I upload them right?  well, the same week as this flight, it was posting wigglies from the last time I flew. see??  crazy, huh?  ok, not really that crazy.

and, I think, rahim had:

pho
comments: looking at the phone in this lunch pic... I think it's rahim's lunch.  I could be wrong, tho. I'm not sure what phone ken has. but I think it's rahim. click to see why we didn't eat oysters at Fanny Bay... red tide!

robots need lunch, too

bagelwich
from: home
price: n/a
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: dan mangan
comments: this past weekend I got to fly to the island and chill out at Fanny Bay. twas very nice, indeed. click my lunch to see the seaplane pilot bringing it in for a landing. you can see all the aerial wigglies from the trip here.

don't you cry tonight, I still lunch you baby

beef
from: gyu kaku (nelson and howe?)
price: $20ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: guns n roses
comments: Nori had this great idea for lunch. gyu kaku.  it took way too long, but it was delicious and fun. know what else is fun?  Paul.  don't believe me?  it's true. click this beef to see it proven.

and we all cooked:

at our table
comments: click this action shot to see the people back at work who are organizing this week's Parliament party. sadly, I'm gonna miss it. happily, I'm gonna be on a seaplane headed to the island.

and yasu had:

karaage
comments: I guess yasu preferred chicken to beef. he was the only one not fighting for space on the burner. now click to see this lunch gang's jumping attempts.  wanna see the other two guys hover, instead?

drinkin' my juice, young lunch, chug-a-lug me

turkey club
from: big lou's
price: uh... $8? $10?  I forget
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: chill peppers
comments: this sandwich was delicious. now click it to see the amazing birthday present that DaveO got from his awesome underlings.  yeah, it's a tintin style book cover shot with all the members of their "community" department at work.  so awesome. so so awesome. that's stephanie there in the wiggly.  she drew half of it. the other half was by diana. nice work, you two... really really nice.  I want one of me now!

and ken had:

big italian
comments: click ken's sandwich to see eric kicking bill in the ball. another good wiggly from today was this one of phil on his bike. oh, also it's emma's birthday today... happy birthday emma!

I can't take the way he sings, but I lunch to hear him talk

bacon cheese pirate pack
from: white spot
price: I totally didn't pay attention
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: the band
comments: so today was the one day a year where adults can eat pirate packs. not sure how this got so popular. but it is a thing now. and lo and behold, who do you reckon was dining at the georgia white spot?  chuck currie, their head chef. click to see a blurry wiggly of him. you may recognize him from the tv. "what's in the soowse?"

and bill had:

the only non-pirate pack at the table.
comments: click bill's grilled cheese to see him controlling a whole bunch of after lunch jumpers whilst he hovers good. there was a 2nd jump wiggly attempt. you can see it here. 

and eric had:

pirate pack
comments: click eric's lunch to see him on bill's shoulders and drumming upon his head.

and kingsley had:

pirate
comments: click kinglsey's lunch to see a rare wiggly indeed... one of me! yeah, jenny took my camera and made many wigglies for me. too many! so many. I didn't animate them all. there were just too many.

well, most everyone had:

pirate packs
comments: last click. and you're just gonna see this same photo, but all wiggly. that's all.

lunch is knowing, we can be

curry beef brisket special
from: Hon's
price: $8?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: john lennon
comments: a non-deacon's tuesday.  it felt a bit odd. but all was good. click to see the gang a-lunchin'.

and andrew had:

a different combo
comments: today's I learned that "HON's" just stands for House Of Noodles. hmm.. go figure. click to see bill and adam wearing matching shirts.

and kingsley had:

this
comments: recently, I got some candies from japan. and eric happened to have the same kid.  the best art of these candies is the boxes. they got letters. and now, whenever people visit my desk, they make exciting new phrases. click to see one of these phrases.

and gavin had:

beef n broc
comments: click to see some kinda equipment thingy that looks awesome cuz its got a mouth and eyes.

you know that I lunch you, so don't make me say it

bennies
from: zen cafe
price: $11?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: bjork
comments: today at the zen cafe, Teo was there!  with his puppy, that I had never met. and she's so cute! go on, click me lunch to see her. her name is Boco and she's one of those dreadlock dogs. soooo cute!

and greg had:

also benny
comments: click for more Boco. so fluffy. so cute.