Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 17 October, 2008

Monday, October 20, 2008

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 17 October, 2008

5 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			47h 11m 51s
Time Working:			39h 33m 4s
	Planned:			18h 43m 26s
		Projects/Tasks:			3h 39m 16s
		Meetings:			3h 13m 58s
		Reading/Research:			5h 19m 38s
		Communication:			4h 49m 39s
		House cleaning:			1h 40m 55s
	Unplanned:			16h 47m 47s
		Distraction:			0h 11m 0s
		Interruption:			7h 38m 16s
		Projects/Tasks:			8h 58m 31s
	Other Work:			4h 1m 51s
		Non-work Work:			2h 6m 12s
		Community Life:			1h 55m 39s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			7h 38m 47s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			9h 26m 22s
Average Daily Working Time:			7h 54m 36s


Time Working:			83.80%
	Planned:			47.34%
		Projects/Tasks:			19.52%
		Meetings:			17.27%
		Reading/Research:			28.45%
		Communication:			25.78%
		House cleaning:			8.98%
	Unplanned:			42.47%
		Distraction:			1.09%
		Interruption:			45.47%
		Projects/Tasks:			53.44%
	Other Work:			10.19%
		Non-work Work:			52.18%
		Community Life:			47.82%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			16.20%

*** Raw Data ***

10/13/2008 7:42:23 AM,ar,"",0
10/13/2008 9:42:09 AM,mt,"mmn stuff",7186
10/13/2008 10:06:35 AM,iv,"asst checkin",1466
10/13/2008 10:26:14 AM,cl,"monday",1179
10/13/2008 10:47:07 AM,em,"re catchup email stuff",1253
10/13/2008 11:00:21 AM,ip,"access e-mail from home",794
10/13/2008 11:14:33 AM,re,"rss",852
10/13/2008 11:21:15 AM,em,"",402
10/13/2008 11:52:14 AM,hr,"couple things",1859
10/13/2008 12:33:46 PM,hr,"org chart software",2492
10/13/2008 1:28:59 PM,bk,"lunch",3313
10/13/2008 2:11:12 PM,em,"",2533
10/13/2008 2:54:05 PM,iv,"wireless and other things",2573
10/13/2008 3:05:04 PM,up,"ssl cert",659
10/13/2008 3:21:58 PM,iv,"menno networking",1014
10/13/2008 3:54:54 PM,up,"cert update",1976
10/13/2008 4:28:41 PM,ip,"cdwg",2027
10/13/2008 6:12:29 PM,iv,"database stuff",6228

10/14/2008 7:49:00 AM,ar,"",0
10/14/2008 8:24:29 AM,up,"server cert stuff",2129
10/14/2008 8:30:48 AM,up,"more server cert",379
10/14/2008 9:45:00 AM,mt,"bibl story",4452
10/14/2008 10:19:11 AM,cl,"cdn tgiving",2051
10/14/2008 10:30:41 AM,em,"",690
10/14/2008 10:51:53 AM,hr,"moodle document types and photo organization (not moodle-related)",1272
10/14/2008 10:59:10 AM,up,"check student e-mail",437
10/14/2008 11:11:06 AM,iv,"computer",716
10/14/2008 11:11:10 AM,ip,"databases",4
10/14/2008 11:55:50 AM,ip,"database design",2680
10/14/2008 12:22:14 PM,tk,"moodle investigation",1584
10/14/2008 12:32:57 PM,ip,"email sending",643
10/14/2008 1:26:19 PM,bk,"lunch",3202
10/14/2008 1:49:49 PM,ps,"tmq",1410
10/14/2008 1:57:27 PM,hr,"moodle questions",458
10/14/2008 2:29:22 PM,re,"firstmonday",1915
10/14/2008 2:43:54 PM,tk,"moodle",872
10/14/2008 2:51:05 PM,iv,"move boxes",431
10/14/2008 3:23:32 PM,re,"google apps domains stuff",1947
10/14/2008 3:27:34 PM,ip,"doc mgmt stuff",242
10/14/2008 4:06:35 PM,re,"google apps",2341
10/14/2008 4:11:58 PM,bk,"wanderwonder",323
10/14/2008 4:12:56 PM,em,"",58
10/14/2008 4:16:26 PM,ip,"spouse",210
10/14/2008 4:28:38 PM,tk,"moodle",732
10/14/2008 4:49:33 PM,nw,"bibls tory",1255
10/14/2008 4:58:13 PM,re,"switch setup",520

10/15/2008 7:55:17 AM,ar,"",0
10/15/2008 8:58:20 AM,re,"rss",3783
10/15/2008 10:03:23 AM,ps,"CARES",3903
10/15/2008 10:16:30 AM,iv,"copyright linking",787
10/15/2008 10:52:29 AM,re,"rss",2159
10/15/2008 10:55:17 AM,bk,"water",168
10/15/2008 11:08:19 AM,iv,"asst",782
10/15/2008 12:37:19 PM,up,"policy hunting and an ssl rabbit trail",5340
10/15/2008 1:35:17 PM,bk,"lunch",3478
10/15/2008 2:23:25 PM,nw,"review board docket",2888
10/15/2008 3:11:18 PM,em,"doc mgmt",2873
10/15/2008 3:45:12 PM,nw,"self-study stuff and policy creation stuff",2034
10/15/2008 5:36:01 PM,em,"holy cow we had a pile of e-mail stuff to take care of",6649

10/16/2008 7:41:15 AM,ar,"",0
10/16/2008 7:44:31 AM,ph,"net conx",196
10/16/2008 7:51:39 AM,di,"rabbit trail of open source nac",428
10/16/2008 8:05:45 AM,em,"",846
10/16/2008 8:29:00 AM,nw,"bibl story stuff",1395
10/16/2008 8:43:10 AM,ip,"e-mail conx and sophos not updating",850
10/16/2008 9:06:16 AM,re,"room scheduling",1386
10/16/2008 9:29:57 AM,up,"a whole variety of requests, e-mail, server certificates, notices, etc.",1421
10/16/2008 9:59:27 AM,up,"crovis and other things",1770
10/16/2008 10:02:09 AM,ip,"network at AMBS?",162
10/16/2008 10:19:53 AM,bk,"banana",1064
10/16/2008 10:39:06 AM,up,"ssl stuff",1153
10/16/2008 10:39:25 AM,ip,"dell delivery",19
10/16/2008 11:58:11 AM,tk,"switches",4726
10/16/2008 1:00:00 PM,cl,"forum",3709
10/16/2008 1:16:41 PM,ps,"politics discussion",1001
10/16/2008 2:25:11 PM,hc,"getting some organization going on",4110
10/16/2008 3:17:50 PM,up,"shopping",3159
10/16/2008 3:25:07 PM,tk,"shopping",437
10/16/2008 4:03:58 PM,tk,"shopping",2331
10/16/2008 4:45:00 PM,up,"document amer setup",2462

10/17/2008 7:50:36 AM,ar,"",0
10/17/2008 8:16:59 AM,em,"",1583
10/17/2008 8:20:51 AM,di,"blog about spam",232
10/17/2008 8:25:47 AM,em,"",296
10/17/2008 8:39:40 AM,hc,"unpack server",833
10/17/2008 8:58:12 AM,hc,"office clearing",1112
10/17/2008 9:37:15 AM,re,"rss",2343
10/17/2008 9:44:09 AM,ip,"printer trouble",414
10/17/2008 9:51:19 AM,ip,"more outlook disconnection problems. What's going on?",430
10/17/2008 10:18:49 AM,bk,"",1650
10/17/2008 10:36:32 AM,iv,"works conversion",1063
10/17/2008 10:39:03 AM,ip,"computer lockdown question",151
10/17/2008 10:47:59 AM,iv,"works files",536
10/17/2008 11:20:11 AM,re,"rss",1932
10/17/2008 11:32:40 AM,hr,"mac troubles",749
10/17/2008 11:44:25 AM,ps,"politics",705
10/17/2008 12:09:39 PM,ip,"computer kiosk filtering stuff",1514
10/17/2008 1:12:09 PM,bk,"lunch",3750
10/17/2008 1:23:48 PM,iv,"asst",699
10/17/2008 1:53:20 PM,hr,"computer kiosks",1772
10/17/2008 2:09:09 PM,hr,"phone dead",949
10/17/2008 3:08:29 PM,ps,"hospital visit",3560
10/17/2008 3:39:44 PM,hr,"kyocera setup",1875
10/17/2008 3:57:25 PM,iv,"asst",1061
10/17/2008 4:38:39 PM,tk,"moodle questionnaires",2474

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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