Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 27 June, 2008

Monday, June 30, 2008

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 27 June, 2008

4 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			36h 47m 58s
Time Working:			32h 51m 3s
	Planned:			24h 23m 59s
		Projects/Tasks:			19h 40m 12s
		Meetings:			0h 35m 8s
		Reading/Research:			0h 51m 40s
		Communication:			3h 16m 59s
		House cleaning:			0h 0m 0s
	Unplanned:			8h 27m 4s
		Distraction:			2h 43m 21s
		Interruption:			2h 30m 20s
		Projects/Tasks:			3h 13m 23s
	Other Work:			0h 0m 0s
		Non-work Work:			0h 0m 0s
		Community Life:			0h 0m 0s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			3h 56m 55s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			9h 11m 59s
Average Daily Working Time:			8h 12m 45s


Time Working:			89.27%
	Planned:			74.27%
		Projects/Tasks:			80.62%
		Meetings:			2.40%
		Reading/Research:			3.53%
		Communication:			13.46%
		House cleaning:			0.00%
	Unplanned:			25.73%
		Distraction:			32.21%
		Interruption:			29.65%
		Projects/Tasks:			38.14%
	Other Work:			0.00%
		Non-work Work:			%
		Community Life:			%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			10.73%

*** Raw Data ***

06/23/2008 8:10:28 AM,ar,"",0
06/23/2008 8:16:32 AM,tk,"a little untangle",364
06/23/2008 8:41:25 AM,em,"",1493
06/23/2008 8:54:14 AM,em,"",769
06/23/2008 8:56:27 AM,em,"",133
06/23/2008 9:01:52 AM,vi,"dean's whereabouts",325
06/23/2008 9:07:49 AM,em,"",357
06/23/2008 9:10:10 AM,iv,"asst",141
06/23/2008 9:11:05 AM,ip,"notebook work appt",55
06/23/2008 9:15:25 AM,em,"still more email",260
06/23/2008 9:43:23 AM,re,"rss",1678
06/23/2008 11:03:09 AM,ph,"audit (blech)",4786
06/23/2008 11:36:48 AM,tk,"audit cleanup",2019
06/23/2008 11:37:03 AM,ip,"zotero scheduling",15
06/23/2008 11:56:22 AM,tk,"audit cleanup",1159
06/23/2008 12:14:56 PM,tk,"audit cleanup",1114
06/23/2008 12:58:47 PM,bk,"lunch",2631
06/23/2008 1:01:55 PM,ps,"email",188
06/23/2008 1:04:40 PM,em,"",165
06/23/2008 1:22:26 PM,ip,"moodle questions",1066
06/23/2008 1:24:48 PM,up,"mrs",142
06/23/2008 1:45:10 PM,up,"mrs",1222
06/23/2008 2:03:17 PM,iv,"zotero and other questions",1087
06/23/2008 2:43:32 PM,up,"mrs work",2415
06/23/2008 3:00:39 PM,up,"mrs",1027
06/23/2008 3:04:48 PM,tk,"new computer",249
06/23/2008 3:11:21 PM,ip,"transcriptiong",393
06/23/2008 3:15:00 PM,tk,"new computer",219
06/23/2008 3:18:22 PM,tk,"new computer setup",202
06/23/2008 3:19:14 PM,ph,"reg off",52
06/23/2008 3:34:08 PM,vi,"course enrollment question",894
06/23/2008 3:37:49 PM,hr,"bb course creation",221
06/23/2008 3:50:01 PM,tk,"auditor cleanup",732
06/23/2008 4:05:30 PM,tk,"new computer",929
06/23/2008 4:09:46 PM,ip,"printer problems",256
06/23/2008 4:11:08 PM,ip,"audit",82
06/23/2008 4:16:50 PM,hr,"printer",342
06/23/2008 4:29:04 PM,tk,"more audit followup",734
06/23/2008 4:31:27 PM,tk,"adjust pruss bkp",143
06/23/2008 4:42:47 PM,di,"spiceworks",680
06/23/2008 4:47:38 PM,re,"rss",291
06/23/2008 4:59:42 PM,tk,"setup new computer",724
06/23/2008 5:06:00 PM,di,"spiceworks",378
06/23/2008 5:11:31 PM,ps,"slate",331
06/23/2008 5:12:20 PM,di,"spiceworks",49

06/24/2008 8:05:00 AM,ar,"",0
06/24/2008 8:16:17 AM,tk,"check bacup",677
06/24/2008 8:41:14 AM,up,"troubleshoot some registry errors",1497
06/24/2008 9:04:13 AM,em,"moodle",1379
06/24/2008 9:53:51 AM,tk,"scan notebook",2978
06/24/2008 9:55:29 AM,em,"",98
06/24/2008 10:25:26 AM,ps,"scavenging",1797
06/24/2008 10:41:29 AM,tk,"notebook scan",963
06/24/2008 10:45:49 AM,ps,"email",260
06/24/2008 10:57:09 AM,di,"windows distribution question",680
06/24/2008 10:59:13 AM,ip,"spouse",124
06/24/2008 11:03:09 AM,di,"win deployment",236
06/24/2008 11:26:44 AM,di,"wds",1415
06/24/2008 11:26:48 AM,ip,"spouse",4
06/24/2008 11:30:31 AM,tk,"spiceworks",223
06/24/2008 11:39:06 AM,tk,"notebook scan",515
06/24/2008 11:46:34 AM,tk,"new computer",448
06/24/2008 11:57:22 AM,tk,"new computer",648
06/24/2008 11:58:30 AM,ip,"notebook scan questions",68
06/24/2008 12:06:37 PM,re,"rss",487
06/24/2008 12:07:36 PM,tk,"new computer",59
06/24/2008 12:08:38 PM,ip,"telemarketer",62
06/24/2008 12:14:19 PM,tk,"new computer setup",341
06/24/2008 12:47:30 PM,bk,"lunch",1991
06/24/2008 1:08:46 PM,tk,"new computer",1276
06/24/2008 1:42:30 PM,tk,"untangle",2024
06/24/2008 1:49:08 PM,iv,"phone conferencing questions",398
06/24/2008 2:52:33 PM,tk,"untangle and some other things",3805
06/24/2008 3:09:49 PM,di,"windows deployment",1036
06/24/2008 3:13:19 PM,di,"legitimate putzing",210
06/24/2008 5:10:35 PM,tk,"policy writing",7036
06/24/2008 5:15:19 PM,di,"xobni",284

06/25/2008 8:09:18 AM,ar,"",0
06/25/2008 8:20:45 AM,tk,"bootup and backup check",687
06/25/2008 8:22:53 AM,em,"",128
06/25/2008 8:24:08 AM,ip,"forgotten laptop",75
06/25/2008 9:00:39 AM,iv,"computer questions",2191
06/25/2008 9:17:37 AM,hr,"outlook questions and package pickup",1018
06/25/2008 9:49:23 AM,di,"xobni and some other more legitimate work",1906
06/25/2008 10:06:56 AM,bk,"farewell",1053
06/25/2008 10:33:40 AM,di,"xobni",1604
06/25/2008 10:55:43 AM,di,"backup tweaking",1323
06/25/2008 11:07:00 AM,tk,"backup checking",677
06/25/2008 11:10:27 AM,ip,"printing troubles",207
06/25/2008 11:15:57 AM,tk,"backup check",330
06/25/2008 11:19:30 AM,ip,"mail list king",213
06/25/2008 11:19:55 AM,ip,"mail list king",25
06/25/2008 11:22:00 AM,up,"ups batter check",125
06/25/2008 11:26:31 AM,tk,"backup tweakign",271
06/25/2008 11:29:00 AM,ip,"a 10 second conversation that took a couple of minutes",149
06/25/2008 11:37:23 AM,tk,"backup check",503
06/25/2008 11:37:49 AM,iv,"standalone db installation (this too shall pass)",26
06/25/2008 12:43:00 PM,tk,"computer imaging",3911
06/25/2008 1:10:00 PM,bk,"lunch",1620
06/25/2008 1:45:08 PM,mt,"set up ims asst and a help request along the way",2108
06/25/2008 1:58:34 PM,tk,"tweak backup",806
06/25/2008 2:20:20 PM,tk,"backup and remote deployment work",1306
06/25/2008 3:20:14 PM,up,"windows distribution and backup and a bunch of other efficiency improvers (or things that will be once they work)",3594
06/25/2008 4:01:38 PM,tk,"more backup and other fixing",2484
06/25/2008 4:02:11 PM,tk,"tweak default script host",33
06/25/2008 4:10:50 PM,tk,"more efficiency and logging stuff",519
06/25/2008 4:15:08 PM,tk,"more wds stuff",258
06/25/2008 4:19:55 PM,bk,"p",287
06/25/2008 4:55:28 PM,tk,"deploy",2133
06/25/2008 5:13:01 PM,tk,"reminst setup work",1053

06/26/2008 8:07:03 AM,ar,"",0
06/26/2008 8:16:43 AM,em,"",580
06/26/2008 8:23:23 AM,em,"",400
06/26/2008 8:44:12 AM,tk,"tweak pruss backup scripts",1249
06/26/2008 10:04:37 AM,tk,"backup tweaking",4825
06/26/2008 10:51:46 AM,tk,"finish backup tweaking (work on windows distribution in there too)",2829
06/26/2008 11:02:10 AM,tk,"windows distribution attempts",624
06/26/2008 11:09:40 AM,tk,"delilvery",450
06/26/2008 11:46:35 AM,tk,"windows deployment",2215
06/26/2008 12:11:56 PM,tk,"remote image capture",1521
06/26/2008 12:50:55 PM,bk,"lunch",2339
06/26/2008 12:54:30 PM,re,"rss",215
06/26/2008 1:00:15 PM,re,"rss",345
06/26/2008 1:04:40 PM,tk,"wds setup",265
06/26/2008 1:27:36 PM,iv,"hauling",1376
06/26/2008 1:29:00 PM,re,"rss",84
06/26/2008 1:30:00 PM,ps,"deliveries of crap home",60
06/26/2008 1:57:38 PM,ps,"delivery of goods to home",1658
06/26/2008 3:03:31 PM,tk,"more wds not working stuff",3953
06/26/2008 3:18:34 PM,iv,"mac mail settings",903
06/26/2008 3:40:01 PM,tk,"wds",1287
06/26/2008 3:54:15 PM,tk,"windows distribution misery",854
06/26/2008 3:55:59 PM,iv,"script tshoop",104
06/26/2008 4:24:26 PM,tk,"update workstation and other distractions",1707
06/26/2008 5:39:07 PM,tk,"setup computer",4481

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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