Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 0 November, 2008

Monday, November 3, 2008

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 0 November, 2008

6 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			66h 3m 28s
Time Working:			55h 40m 49s
	Planned:			21h 10m 55s
		Projects/Tasks:			17h 8m 10s
		Meetings:			0h 48m 50s
		Reading/Research:			0h 52m 54s
		Communication:			2h 21m 1s
		House cleaning:			0h 0m 0s
	Unplanned:			28h 12m 25s
		Distraction:			0h 0m 0s
		Interruption:			2h 40m 26s
		Projects/Tasks:			25h 31m 59s
	Other Work:			6h 17m 29s
		Non-work Work:			4h 9m 42s
		Community Life:			2h 7m 47s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			10h 22m 39s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			11h 0m 34s
Average Daily Working Time:			9h 16m 48s


Time Working:			84.29%
	Planned:			38.04%
		Projects/Tasks:			80.90%
		Meetings:			3.84%
		Reading/Research:			4.16%
		Communication:			11.10%
		House cleaning:			0.00%
	Unplanned:			50.66%
		Distraction:			0.00%
		Interruption:			9.48%
		Projects/Tasks:			90.52%
	Other Work:			11.30%
		Non-work Work:			66.15%
		Community Life:			33.85%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			15.71%

*** Raw Data ***

10/25/2008 9:00:42 AM,ar,"",0
10/25/2008 12:30:36 PM,up,"get that server up ... now to configure samba, qmail, etc (started some of that)",12594
10/25/2008 1:15:44 PM,bk,"lunch",2708
10/25/2008 6:05:01 PM,tk,"new server working",17357
10/25/2008 7:20:45 PM,bk,"supper and a little rr (a very little rr)",4544
10/25/2008 10:39:26 PM,tk,"rebuilding server",11921

10/26/2008 9:19:14 AM,ar,"yup, sunday",0
10/26/2008 12:39:39 PM,up,"server rebuild. E-mail seems to be mostly working. Holding breath.",12025
10/26/2008 1:28:43 PM,bk,"lunch",2944
10/26/2008 4:12:32 PM,up,"server rebuild -- stupid expect script not working like I want with smbpasswd",9829
10/26/2008 4:48:07 PM,bk,"dog walk",2135
10/26/2008 7:46:01 PM,up,"server rebuild (big work done)",10674

10/27/2008 7:51:03 AM,ar,"m",0
10/27/2008 8:06:13 AM,em,"",910
10/27/2008 8:17:16 AM,up,"reboot",663
10/27/2008 9:49:36 AM,tk,"some server restore tasks",5540
10/27/2008 10:00:15 AM,tk,"server cleanup",639
10/27/2008 10:25:00 AM,iv,"email and asst",1485
10/27/2008 10:48:24 AM,cl,"(sort of)",1404
10/27/2008 11:25:21 AM,ip,"wtf?",2217
10/27/2008 2:13:56 PM,tk,"moodle demo/qa",10115
10/27/2008 4:21:02 PM,up,"server restore",7626
10/27/2008 4:28:41 PM,re,"rss",459
10/27/2008 4:56:58 PM,bk,"walk dog",1697
10/27/2008 6:16:39 PM,up,"server restore still going",4781
10/27/2008 6:21:51 PM,tk,"more server ... going home",312

10/28/2008 8:13:13 AM,ar,"",0
10/28/2008 10:05:00 AM,nw,"bibl story stuff",6707
10/28/2008 10:25:57 AM,cl,"tuesday",1257
10/28/2008 11:14:47 AM,mt,"set up computer",2930
10/28/2008 12:19:07 PM,up,"server restoration ... hopeful again",3860
10/28/2008 1:11:30 PM,bk,"lunch",3143
10/28/2008 4:27:26 PM,up,"server rebuild -- students back ... scripts and backup to rework",11756
10/28/2008 4:30:43 PM,up,"a little more server rebuilding",197

10/29/2008 7:57:20 AM,ar,"",0
10/29/2008 9:06:36 AM,tk,"varous things",4156
10/29/2008 9:24:10 AM,ps,"CARES",1054
10/29/2008 10:00:00 AM,nw,"bibl story",2150
10/29/2008 10:18:05 AM,bk,"",1085
10/29/2008 12:04:14 PM,up,"server tweaking",6369
10/29/2008 1:00:05 PM,bk,"lunch",3351
10/29/2008 2:11:24 PM,up,"new server figuring out stuff",4279
10/29/2008 2:56:39 PM,re,"rss",2715
10/29/2008 4:23:15 PM,up,"student server",5196
10/29/2008 4:41:38 PM,ip,"send e-mail to students",1103
10/29/2008 5:16:08 PM,up,"still more server cleanup",2070
10/29/2008 5:18:42 PM,em,"final cleaning",154

10/30/2008 7:50:59 AM,ar,"",0
10/30/2008 8:01:53 AM,em,"",654
10/30/2008 8:12:28 AM,iv,"asst",635
10/30/2008 8:17:59 AM,iv,"email trouble",331
10/30/2008 10:10:22 AM,em,"playing",6743
10/30/2008 10:55:00 AM,bk,"tgviing",2678
10/30/2008 11:15:03 AM,iv,"break conversation",1203
10/30/2008 11:21:55 AM,tk,"qmail stuff",412
10/30/2008 11:26:09 AM,iv,"explore vid",254
10/30/2008 11:41:34 AM,tk,"server cleanup",925
10/30/2008 1:05:00 PM,cl,"forum",5006
10/30/2008 1:12:08 PM,iv,"couple of things",428
10/30/2008 1:46:01 PM,tk,"fix forwarding",2033
10/30/2008 2:07:17 PM,ip,"moodle",1276
10/30/2008 2:18:51 PM,iv,"various things",694
10/30/2008 4:21:40 PM,tk,"got ezmlm working partly",7369
10/30/2008 4:36:51 PM,tk,"ezmlm",911
10/30/2008 4:44:45 PM,ps,"rss",474
10/30/2008 7:57:11 PM,ps,"home",11546
10/30/2008 9:39:16 PM,nw,"bibl story",6125

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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