wheres lunch?

[jimmyq]

So I am not sure if this is the right forum but here goes. I went a few blocks south of my jobsite yesterday and had fish and chips sitting in the sand on the beach with my shirt off sunning my white a$$ chest, and I couldn't have been more relaxed. here is a snapshot for sharing.

cheers

 

[jimmyq]

the company ride, parked it in the shade cuz it was hot.

 

[jimmyq]

Oh, for those who are interested... the greenery to the far right is Stanley park and Vancouver city proper, to the middle is West Vancouver cross the water and you can see Cypress and Grouse mountains. Follow the road a couple hours north and you are in whistler (olympics 2010). the beach I am at is called Locarno beach, near to UBC.
pic is price list for ladders, for those who are lookin.

 

[MasterBlaster]

That beach looks NICE! What are those stupid logs for? Vehicles?

Uh, was that one of yur groundies in that last shot?

 

[matthias]

I had a little trouble concentrating on the ladder prices.
If I took lunch at a spot like that it would ???? near be impossible to go back to work. I hammer a packed lunch down in 10-15 minutes sitting in the truck (sometimes with earplugs and glasses still on.) Anything longer than half an hour takes all motivation away.

 

[rbtree]

Ask her if i can buy her lunch would ya , jq!

Those are good prices for ladders, especially in play money

I'd have to drive to eastern Washington to get prices that good. I need an 8n footer for fruit tree pruning. My 12 is often just too hard to fit underneath the canopy.

I'd be going back to Whistler this weekend, but my body is still reeling from the last trip which included a 200 vert ragdoll fall down Upper McConkey's.

 

[jimmyq]

MB - logs are out there cuz we dont need them for anything else right now. actually, I dont know why they are there, they are nice to lean against and the $hit hawks (seagulls) seem to like em.


nope, not a groundie in the last pic, haha, I took that shot out the truck window backhanded and didnt even know she was in the shot till i out it on the monitor at home!

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

Originally posted by jimmyq
[ had fish and chips [/B]

come on for real fish and chips you got to get um from GREAT BRITAIN, what you had was chips with deep fried fish ,real fish and chips must be either COD ,HADDOCK ,ROCK EEL OR PLAICE, AND THE CHIPS MUST BE A BIT LIMP ha ha we cant do much in the UK but we can do a good fish and chips..oh yes with mushy peas

 

[MasterBlaster]

I had some dam good fish n chips in Tasmania! A 'lil on the salty side, but I guess that's the way the Aussies like it. They served it all rolled up in newspaper... TASTY!!!

 

[Reed]

Darn Jimmy, that beach looks familiar -

the Vancouver Folk Festival? My wife performed there. Further down on the right (to the east) is the memorial and the great boat HMS St. Roch.

To the left (around the corner) is Wreck Beach, been there while the Festival was going down - we did the starko buck-butted naked routine, as did everyone else!

Cool harbour. Portal to the sane world.

 

[Nickrosis]

Which way to the sane world? Out to sea or in to land?

 

[jimmyq]

Rolla - it was cod actually, very lightly battered and yes deep fried, chips were a bit limp and in newspaper. No peas though, you'll have a real hard time finding them here at a street vendor. I like a bit of malt vinegar on mine.

cheers.

 

[new treeman]

lunch

all of my crew lose motivation after lunch I do not no if i shoud eat later or just not eat the bad thing is i aways buy for them::

 

[MasterBlaster]

Lunch should be eaten later, like 1:00. And then it should be light. The best way is to just have something to snack on as you get hungry.
It seems to me that "Official" lunch breaks are becoming a thing of the past.
The REAL secret is to eat a killer breakfast, the kind that can last all day, if necessary.
At the least, don't stop for more than 20 minutes.

 

[NickfromWI]

I likes my half hour lunch. Seems to me that the lunch break should be at the middle of your work day. If you normally work from 7am-5pm, then noonish would be a good lunch time. And really, If people aren't getting paid for that lunch time, then it don't matter much of it's 20minutes or 40 minutes, does it?

I used to work for a place and we talked the boss in to giving us 40 minute lunches. We would eat for the half hour, then start getting going after that. The first ten minutes after lunch were always slow---people putting their PPE back on, saddling up, starting the equipment again. That ten minutes gave us a bit of time where we new we could take our time letting the food settle and not feel like we were wasting the company money. Whenever I footlock right after lunch, I have a hard time keeping the tofu down!

love
nick

 

[MasterBlaster]

It's really just two different styles of working. I'm not at all talking about working yourself to death, with no breaks. I just think if you pace yourself and DO break when it's conveniant, you can do without the "Official" lunch break.

But they ARE nice, once in a while!

 

[SilverBlue]

I’ve taken your advice Butch and stock up in the morning and rarely eat lunch anymore when busy. A short break is just fine if need be, otherwise it’s hard to get the momentum going again especially on a hot humid day.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Stock up!

I have 10 -12 egg whites served over a bed of cheese with 4 pieces of stone ground whole wheat toast, dry. Half a cup of skim milk, and wash it down with some orange flavored Metamucil.

Mmmmmm, sweet!

 

[Nickrosis]

We get paid for 30 minutes, and a lunch break can take no longer than an hour, including travel time. Not a hard and fast policy, though.... I eat on the road and add a half hour to each day.

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

Originally posted by jimmyq
Rolla - it was cod actually, very lightly battered and yes deep fried, chips were a bit limp and in newspaper. No peas though, you'll have a real hard time finding them here at a street vendor. I like a bit of malt vinegar on mine.

cheers.

i give your fish and chips..the above thumbs up ..!!!!