Ryan Fields

Eating at Outback tonight

One of my favorite local restaurants is the Outback Restaurant.  I love their mashed potatoes, and they serve a great steak too.  Sometimes I order the pork chop, but I have to order it without any spices on it; if I forget to do that I don’t like it at all.  The are two things I don’t like about eating at the Outback Restaurant - first of all their booths and chairs are not very comfortable, and second is that on the weekend if you don’t get there early enough you have to wait a very long time for a table.

It’s a good system that they have, though, for waiting for a table.  They take your name and give you a type of pager that has lights on it.  You can go outside and sit on the porch and have a drink while you wait for the pager to go off.  Usually by the time you have finished your drink, the light on the pager flashes and then you can go in and be seated, so it’s not usually too bad.  Unless the weather is bad, and then it’s not so good because they have very limited, very uncomfortable waiting accommodations inside.

ENGOBI’s Guitar Hero video contest

ENGOBI, the company that produces snacks that combined flavored chips with caffeine has announced a cool contest called “Don’t Be a Piano Hero” showdown.  The contestants compete to win a variety of prizes, including an Xbox 360™-enabled, customized Fender® Stratocaster, ENGOBI gear and other prizes.

The contestants have to make an energy-packed video of themselves and their friends “rocking out” and then upload the video ENGOBI.com. 

As part of the launch promotion, the ENGOBI van will be touring the east coast and southern cities with the ENOGBI girls, who will be handing out ENGOBI gear, bringing samples of the snacks, and giving people the opportunity to play the Guitar Hero game van-side with their friends.

Going out to eat tonight

My wife and I love to eat dinner at restaurant at The Senator Inn in Augusta.  There is a good salad bar that I like to eat a lot of salad from, and they have a really good seafood alfredo dinner that my wife and I both LOVE.  They also have some good steaks.  The inside of the restaurant is really fancy, so we like to dress up in our “good” clothes to try to make the night special.  Unfortunately there are usually a lot of people who show up there straight from their job at the farm, wearing their tattered jeans and flannel shirts or t-shirts with rude sayings on them and not even enough class to take off their baseball caps covered with grass clippings when they sit at the table.  We try not to look at those people and try to enjoy our meal regardless of the low class folks that wander in from time to time.  I think that this restaurant is classy enough that they should have a dress code for dinner - like shirts with collars, sports coat and tie.

Anyway, the food is good, and we enjoy eating there when we can!

Chocolates for my mother

My friend just told me that he is going to buy Chocolate Gifts for his mother and grandmother for Mother’s Day this coming weekend.  Yikes!  I forgot Mother’s Day is coming up!  My friend told me that if I want to get the same great chocolate as what he is getting his mother, to go to Gertrude Hawk’s website at www.gertrudehawkchocolates.com.  So I went to the website and found that they have a great selection of chocolates, gift baskets, and holiday gifts.  They make their chocolates from only the finest, purest ingredients, so I’m sure they are terrific!  I’ve ordered a few gift baskets from them, I hope they arrive in time!