Joblog on the Lintels: Weekly Work Summary for the week ending Friday, 2007 June 11

Monday, June 11, 2007

Weekly Work Summary for the week ending Friday, 2007 June 11

An imprecise, but accurate on the whole, job accounting.


Time at AMBS:			46h 32m 8s
Time Working:			39h 32m 56s
	Communication:		1h 19m 8s
	Meetings:		1h 19m 8s
	Research:		5h 16m 29s
	Interruptions:		6h 31m 48s
		Phone:	2h 11m 16s
		Visit:	4h 20m 32s
		E-mail:	0h 0m 0s
	Planned:		25h 48m 51s
		Tasks/Projects:	22h 21m 47s
		House cleaning:	3h 27m 4s
	Unspecified:		0h 0m 0s
Break:			6h 56m 20s
Personal:			0h 2m 52s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			9h 18m 25s
Averagy Daily Working Time:			7h 54m 35s

*** Raw Data ***

06/04/2007 8:03:00 AM,ar,"No more sentences. Too much work.",0
06/04/2007 8:15:17 AM,vi,"followups",737
06/04/2007 8:16:47 AM,tk,"check backup",90
06/04/2007 8:18:27 AM,hc,"phone",100
06/04/2007 8:26:23 AM,hc,"email",476
06/04/2007 8:33:00 AM,ip,"network cnx",397
06/04/2007 9:37:16 AM,hc,"email",3856
06/04/2007 9:38:04 AM,iv,"new account stuff",48
06/04/2007 9:41:10 AM,hc,"email",186
06/04/2007 10:05:46 AM,hc,"email",1476
06/04/2007 10:27:11 AM,bk,"monday",1285
06/04/2007 10:29:27 AM,hc,"email",136
06/04/2007 10:36:28 AM,hc,"email",421
06/04/2007 11:19:08 AM,iv,"campus visitor network",2560
06/04/2007 11:53:47 AM,tk,"prtr setup",2079
06/04/2007 12:05:00 PM,tk,"prtr setup",673
06/04/2007 1:00:00 PM,bk,"lunch",3300
06/04/2007 1:35:20 PM,tk,"distance ed",2120
06/04/2007 1:46:58 PM,re,"notebooks",698
06/04/2007 1:48:32 PM,ip,"email",94
06/04/2007 2:04:27 PM,iv,"online coures",955
06/04/2007 2:05:26 PM,hc,"email",59
06/04/2007 2:21:10 PM,tk,"printer problem",944
06/04/2007 2:32:55 PM,tk,"evals",705
06/04/2007 2:35:16 PM,iv,"stasst",141
06/04/2007 3:11:53 PM,ip,"net conx",2197
06/04/2007 3:24:32 PM,ph,"comp ?",759
06/04/2007 3:27:22 PM,hc,"email",170
06/04/2007 3:48:38 PM,tk,"fix evals",1276
06/04/2007 4:00:36 PM,em,"new admiss",718
06/04/2007 5:29:49 PM,tk,"cow",5353

06/05/2007 7:20:00 AM,ar,"remote conx",0
06/05/2007 7:38:04 AM,tk,"bbupdate",1084
06/05/2007 7:59:17 AM,bk,"commute",1273
06/05/2007 8:06:06 AM,tk,"more updating",409
06/05/2007 8:21:08 AM,tk,"re update",902
06/05/2007 8:26:25 AM,vi,"printe rstuff",317
06/05/2007 8:43:36 AM,re,"tech news",1031
06/05/2007 8:44:52 AM,em,"printer info",76
06/05/2007 8:47:52 AM,em,"bb",180
06/05/2007 9:02:51 AM,iv,"cdprinting",899
06/05/2007 9:07:41 AM,iv,"cd printing",290
06/05/2007 9:10:33 AM,ps,"email",172
06/05/2007 9:17:12 AM,re,"tech blogs",399
06/05/2007 9:58:02 AM,iv,"old worker",2450
06/05/2007 10:20:46 AM,tk,"cdprint",1364
06/05/2007 11:15:26 AM,re,"tech blogs",3280
06/05/2007 11:17:11 AM,hc,"email",105
06/05/2007 11:33:27 AM,tk,"admissions",976
06/05/2007 11:37:02 AM,re,"server work",215
06/05/2007 12:00:42 PM,re,"servers",1420
06/05/2007 1:00:00 PM,bk,"lunch",3558
06/05/2007 1:05:41 PM,vi,"distribute brochure",341
06/05/2007 1:23:36 PM,iv,"various",1075
06/05/2007 1:36:58 PM,re,"notebooks",802
06/05/2007 1:45:26 PM,re,"notebook purchase",508
06/05/2007 2:09:00 PM,iv,"email settings",1414
06/05/2007 2:14:17 PM,ip,"calendar question",317
06/05/2007 2:37:36 PM,tk,"pdf testing",1399
06/05/2007 2:42:24 PM,bk,"water",288
06/05/2007 2:54:03 PM,re,"itunes u",699
06/05/2007 3:03:21 PM,re,"sftp",558
06/05/2007 4:35:41 PM,tk,"webdav stuff",5540
06/05/2007 4:41:17 PM,tk,"order",336
06/05/2007 4:47:06 PM,tk,"webdav",349
06/05/2007 5:01:55 PM,bk,"p",889

06/06/2007 6:53:56 AM,ar,"telecommute",0
06/06/2007 6:57:27 AM,tk,"eeinst",211
06/06/2007 7:05:10 AM,bk,"coffee",463
06/06/2007 7:05:38 AM,tk,"check eeinst",28
06/06/2007 7:16:36 AM,bk,"laundry",658
06/06/2007 7:36:29 AM,hc,"email",1193
06/06/2007 7:39:27 AM,tk,"eeinst",178
06/06/2007 7:47:46 AM,bk,"d",499
06/06/2007 7:50:43 AM,tk,"eeinst",177
06/06/2007 8:07:06 AM,bk,"commute",983
06/06/2007 8:13:55 AM,re,"redmond mag",409
06/06/2007 8:18:57 AM,re,"blogs",302
06/06/2007 8:33:51 AM,tk,"eeinst",894
06/06/2007 8:46:23 AM,tk,"tech news",752
06/06/2007 8:53:47 AM,tk,"webdav",444
06/06/2007 8:55:01 AM,iv,"evals",74
06/06/2007 8:56:06 AM,tk,"download updates",65
06/06/2007 9:18:36 AM,vi,"eeupdate",1350
06/06/2007 9:40:59 AM,hc,"unpacking",1343
06/06/2007 9:43:36 AM,bk,"p",157
06/06/2007 10:00:43 AM,tk,"update had",1027
06/06/2007 10:38:37 AM,tk,"check eeinst progress",2274
06/06/2007 11:38:53 AM,tk,"various installation and chapel stuff",3616
06/06/2007 12:13:06 PM,tk,"server research",2053
06/06/2007 1:00:34 PM,bk,"lunch",2848
06/06/2007 1:14:12 PM,tk,"finish hd upgrade",818
06/06/2007 1:16:30 PM,tk,"more ee update",138
06/06/2007 1:40:34 PM,ip,"construction questions",1444
06/06/2007 3:32:19 PM,tk,"far too much to mention while my computer reinstalled",6705
06/06/2007 3:56:04 PM,re,"mixers",1425
06/06/2007 4:06:19 PM,re,"mixers",615
06/06/2007 4:30:10 PM,tk,"little things while waiting and waiting ... all in all a thoroughly unproductive-feeling day.",1431

06/07/2007 8:00:48 AM,ar,"",0
06/07/2007 8:38:39 AM,tk,"start update on computer",2271
06/07/2007 8:49:23 AM,ip,"a couple things",644
06/07/2007 8:51:11 AM,em,"webdav",108
06/07/2007 8:53:32 AM,ip,"spouse",141
06/07/2007 8:59:11 AM,hc,"email",339
06/07/2007 9:02:05 AM,ip,"box",174
06/07/2007 9:08:23 AM,hc,"email",378
06/07/2007 9:40:48 AM,re,"trade mags",1945
06/07/2007 9:48:06 AM,tk,"update computer",438
06/07/2007 10:10:00 AM,bk,"farewell",1314
06/07/2007 10:18:47 AM,iv,"dvd playing",527
06/07/2007 10:38:24 AM,tk,"more updating webpages",1177
06/07/2007 10:43:23 AM,ip,"spouse",299
06/07/2007 10:49:41 AM,iv,"registrar",378
06/07/2007 10:52:23 AM,vi,"eeuser",162
06/07/2007 11:37:17 AM,tk,"chat",2694
06/07/2007 11:38:30 AM,ip,"ee question",73
06/07/2007 11:55:41 AM,tk,"vmware investigation",1031
06/07/2007 12:12:11 PM,tk,"webdav",990
06/07/2007 12:54:41 PM,bk,"lunch",2550
06/07/2007 1:23:15 PM,tk,"research hebrew flashcards",1714
06/07/2007 2:17:29 PM,tk,"get computer running again",3254
06/07/2007 2:24:05 PM,ip,"wireless question",396
06/07/2007 2:33:08 PM,iv,"office cleanup",543
06/07/2007 2:44:36 PM,tk,"prep for supervisor meeting",688
06/07/2007 3:21:16 PM,mt,"super",2200
06/07/2007 3:48:12 PM,re,"tech news",1616
06/07/2007 4:08:37 PM,iv,"virtualization discussion",1225
06/07/2007 4:53:18 PM,re,"virt",2681

06/08/2007 8:05:56 AM,ar,"",0
06/08/2007 8:06:29 AM,tk,"check backup",33
06/08/2007 8:34:31 AM,hc,"email",1682
06/08/2007 8:46:31 AM,tk,"tech news",720
06/08/2007 8:54:20 AM,hc,"email",469
06/08/2007 9:38:12 AM,tk,"infrastructure planning",2632
06/08/2007 9:40:22 AM,tk,"reboot dns",130
06/08/2007 9:59:58 AM,tk,"word 2007 setup",1176
06/08/2007 10:16:46 AM,ip,"computer setup",1008
06/08/2007 10:25:56 AM,tk,"word doc",550
06/08/2007 10:33:08 AM,iv,"network hookup",432
06/08/2007 10:59:29 AM,tk,"upgrade plan",1581
06/08/2007 11:02:19 AM,bk,"p",170
06/08/2007 11:23:40 AM,tk,"server upgrade doc",1281
06/08/2007 11:30:00 AM,tk,"seek chapel advice",380
06/08/2007 11:36:30 AM,tk,"server upgrade doc",390
06/08/2007 11:48:02 AM,ip,"fillable form questin",692
06/08/2007 11:52:47 AM,tk,"update server doc",285
06/08/2007 1:11:52 PM,bk,"lunch",4745
06/08/2007 1:27:49 PM,tk,"projection in h",957
06/08/2007 1:34:15 PM,re,"vmware system support",386
06/08/2007 1:42:32 PM,iv,"asst",497
06/08/2007 1:46:59 PM,tk,"send bbsis update task reminder",267
06/08/2007 1:47:29 PM,tk,"bbsis reminder",30
06/08/2007 1:54:53 PM,iv,"book published",444
06/08/2007 2:42:00 PM,tk,"server docs",2827
06/08/2007 3:10:00 PM,iv,"comp lab question",1680
06/08/2007 3:24:27 PM,tk,"server doc",867
06/08/2007 3:27:12 PM,tk,"fix file types",165
06/08/2007 3:27:47 PM,hc,"email",35
06/08/2007 5:00:36 PM,tk,"server specing",5569

How to Read These Posts

These posts are posted by a perl script I wrote to parse the output of a text file created by a slightly modified version of quicklogger. Posts on Tuesday through Saturday cover one work day; posts on Monday summarize the previous work week.

The parser relies heavily on two-letter codes, visible in the raw data. These codes went into effect July 1, 2016:

ar = arrive (as in, "this is when I arrived at work")
bk/ps = break (unpaid) or personal stuff
mt = meeting
mr = meeting-related (preparation/followup)
bm = budget management (shame on you)
re = reading/research
or = ordering
tr = training (includes telling someone how to do something, not just student supervision)
su = supervision
pr = project (just a task, but longer -- I know them when I see them)
av = specific AV-related task or project
hr/tk = short task/project done immediately (hr = something someone asked me to do; tk = something I decided to do just right then without planning for it)
ro/on = routine or ongoing task/project - stuff I do regularly for whatever reason
tm = task I initiated (but planned to do at a particular time, not something I just thought of this moment)
to,ob = task initiated at another's behest, but something I scheduled to work on at this particular time (not an emergency or spontaneous "let's just get this done" thing)
nw = meta-work (recording vacation, registering for a conference, rewriting the joblogger, chatting with the colleague whose quick question turned into a longer discussion about unrelated things [pastoral care work])
cl = community life stuff (chapel, forum, breaks)
co,em = correspondence, consultation, email

These tasks often flow into one another, so a spontaneous task (tk) includes not only the work I'm doing, but also the three interruptions in the hallway (that would normally be categorized as hr or co) that I dealt with while completing it.

Additionally, the categories are not strict. Tasks (tk or tm or to) have a tendency to become projects (pr), sometimes depending on nothing more than how I feel about them.

And, lest you think I spend all my time at work logging what I do at work instead of actually working, I'll break it down for you: if I average 50 log entries per day, and if each entry takes five seconds, that's six minutes and 10 seconds of each day committed to logging. Not nothing, but also not massive. And each entry probably takes less time than that -- I'm a touch typist, so most of the time entering in the log is related to waiting on the quicklogger to wake up when I press Ctrl-Alt-L. And even then I'm not sure more than five seconds pass.

Now the time coding and re-coding and remembering to use my new codes ... well, that's different. Let's call it nw.

So why the change? The new codes fit more neatly into categories in my job description so that when annual reporting and job description review comes up I can be a bit less impressionistic.

*** Older codes follow ***

These codes went into effect January 2, 2008, and are now obsolete:

ar = arrive (as in, "this is when I arrived at work")
bk/ps = break (unpaid) or personal stuff
di = distraction (self-imposed interruption)
ic = interruption by instant messenger (chat)
ip = interruption by phone
iv = interruption by visit
hr/up = help request or unplanned task (something that comes up as a result of checking my e-mail or phone messages -- usually not the result of an interruption)
mt = meeting
ch = chat initiated by me (should be rare)
em = e-mail checking/corresponding
ph = phone (calling, checking messages)
vi = visit (initiated by me)
hc = housecleaning (office)
tk = planned task or project
re = reading and research
cl = community life (this includes various all campus events, special and regular breaks, forum, chapel, etc.)
nw = work-related non-work things (for those things that aren't exactly community life, but are also not exactly work -- conference registration comes to mind)

*** Original Codes Follow ***

Original code set (2007) - now obsolete:

ar = arrive (as in, "this is when I arrived at work")
bk = break
mt = meeting
ic = interruption by instant messenger (chat)
ie = interruption by e-mail (as in, "I was doing something else and an e-mail popped up on my screen because that's my preferred method of receiving help requests")
ip = interruption by phone
iv = interruption by visit
ch = chat initiated by me
em = e-mail correspondence initiated by me
ph = phone correspondence initiated by me
vi = visit initiated by me (presumably, if others were logging these last three things, there would be a corresponding "iv," "ip," or "ie")
ps = some personal task (as in, "Oooo ... I forgot to check the bank balance, maybe I should do that before I forget")
hc = housecleaning (as in, "I better check my e-mail, listen to my phone messages, and clean up this clutter on my desk, NOW!")
tk = planned task
re = reading and research

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