Have you ever wondered what an average day in the life of David Peter Hall is like? If not, then don't worry, you are completely normal. For you who have, the moment has arrived. I got up this morning at 6:00am, a little after my usual time. My alarm went off to the sound of an old EFY CD and I jumped out of bed to turn it off.
After getting ready for the day I came back into my room and made my bed. You will notice a very nice quilt made (with love) by my mother.
After that it was time to get some breakfast. I am a big breakfast person. For some reason I just get so hungry during the night. So this morning I had some granola and yogurt. One of my favorites. You can see in the left of the picture my lunch for the day as well. There is an orange and a Tupperware container with some chicken and rice in it. The chicken is actually a recipe Lorna gave me, it has Apricot preserves and Ranch seasoning, it is super tasty.
As I leave my room for the day and switch off my light, there is a sign a friend of mine gave me which reads "Don't forget to have an adventure today." Good advice for us all.
This is my view as I walk out my front door. You will see it again later.
Here I am at work! This is the main entrance. Sometimes I take the side door, but for the Blog's sake I came this way today. My camera makes a "bark" when I take pictures, and right after I took this I wondered what the lady in front of me was thinking. Hmm.
When I get to work this is what I see. My Desk. A phone, two monitors, some pictures of my sisters families they gave me for Christmas, a gift from BYU-Idaho, some papers, and my "England Logistics" cup. I go through about three of those full of water per day. I spent a lot of my day working on a program for a department. The software is called Qlikview and has been fun to learn. It has a tremendous ability to drill down on data quickly. Much easier for users than something like Access or Excel. I also was able to attend a certain meeting for the first time with some of the senior managers. That was quite an interesting experience.
This is Andy Macdonald. No, the "d" is not capitalized. According to him that would place him in another clan. You might think this is a strange pose for a picture… and you would be right.
Next is Sam and Tevita (left to right). They are the two main IT guys. We all go play pool regularly (there is a pool table in our break room), which I am a little sad I forgot to get a picture of. Tevita jokes about taking us "to school". So now instead of asking if we want to play pool he simply asks if we want a lesson today or not. They are great guys.
And this is Merrill. He started a few weeks before me and graduated in economics as well, from Utah State.
After a good day of work I leave. And this is what it looks like sometimes.
On this particular day I was going to get my windshield replaced… but the weather had other plans for me. It took me almost an hour and a half to get home, and needless to say, I missed my appointment with the glass people.
When I did make it home I warmed up some left-overs for dinner. This is one of my new favorite meals- it is chicken and vegetables with stuffing on top. Yum. I unloaded the dishwasher and talked to some friends on the phone for a while as well.
Then I said hi to my roommate Kevin and we talked about budgeting. Because he was on his way to spend the evening budgeting with a friend of his. I think he was really happy that I wanted to take a picture of him.
This is what my driveway looks like now as compared to this morning. And it is still coming down.
Now I am going to go to bed, but first I will probably spend some time reading this book I got for Christmas. It is an extremely interesting book so far. His quotes about the agency of man have always impressed me.
So there you have it. An average day in the life of David Peter Hall.
