Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 12 December, 2008

Monday, December 15, 2008

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 12 December, 2008

5 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			46h 59m 57s
Time Working:			41h 33m 10s
	Planned:			28h 43m 15s
		Projects/Tasks:			16h 58m 46s
		Meetings:			3h 37m 35s
		Reading/Research:			4h 35m 48s
		Communication:			3h 12m 52s
		House cleaning:			0h 18m 14s
	Unplanned:			11h 32m 20s
		Distraction:			0h 40m 12s
		Interruption:			8h 16m 52s
		Projects/Tasks:			2h 35m 16s
	Other Work:			1h 17m 35s
		Non-work Work:			0h 23m 41s
		Community Life:			0h 53m 54s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			5h 26m 47s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			9h 23m 59s
Average Daily Working Time:			8h 18m 38s


Time Working:			88.41%
	Planned:			69.12%
		Projects/Tasks:			59.12%
		Meetings:			12.63%
		Reading/Research:			16.00%
		Communication:			11.19%
		House cleaning:			1.06%
	Unplanned:			27.77%
		Distraction:			5.81%
		Interruption:			71.77%
		Projects/Tasks:			22.43%
	Other Work:			3.11%
		Non-work Work:			30.53%
		Community Life:			69.47%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			11.59%

*** Raw Data ***

12/08/2008 7:41:20 AM,ar,"",0
12/08/2008 7:59:44 AM,em,"",1104
12/08/2008 8:09:11 AM,em,"",567
12/08/2008 8:33:58 AM,iv,"assistant check-in and various housekeeping things",1487
12/08/2008 9:14:59 AM,tk,"acct creation",2461
12/08/2008 10:12:08 AM,iv,"asst",3429
12/08/2008 10:48:58 AM,iv,"various",2210
12/08/2008 11:05:24 AM,iv,"forgotten things",986
12/08/2008 11:16:34 AM,tk,"acct creation script",670
12/08/2008 11:19:52 AM,ip,"spouse",198
12/08/2008 12:41:25 PM,tk,"acct creation",4893
12/08/2008 2:51:25 PM,mt,"all fac",7800
12/08/2008 3:20:06 PM,tk,"acct setup",1721
12/08/2008 3:21:10 PM,ip,"astaro",64
12/08/2008 3:39:35 PM,tk,"acct creation stuff",1105
12/08/2008 3:47:46 PM,iv,"students",491
12/08/2008 5:56:15 PM,tk,"acct creation",7709

12/09/2008 7:48:00 AM,ar,"",0
12/09/2008 8:07:50 AM,em,"",1190
12/09/2008 8:14:10 AM,ps,"blog",380
12/09/2008 9:33:17 AM,hr,"post manuals on ambs central",4747
12/09/2008 9:42:37 AM,hr,"bbsis update",560
12/09/2008 10:00:21 AM,up,"post self study on ambs central",1064
12/09/2008 10:06:11 AM,hr,"envelope printing",350
12/09/2008 10:13:43 AM,up,"self study upload (a non-trivial task)",452
12/09/2008 10:27:01 AM,bk,"munchies",798
12/09/2008 10:53:48 AM,tk,"acct creation stuff",1607
12/09/2008 11:22:49 AM,up,"upload housing handbook",1741
12/09/2008 11:37:08 AM,iv,"phone troubles",859
12/09/2008 12:21:58 PM,tk,"account setup",2690
12/09/2008 1:56:20 PM,bk,"lunch",5662
12/09/2008 1:58:02 PM,em,"",102
12/09/2008 2:19:21 PM,tk,"acct creation script ldif routines",1279
12/09/2008 2:22:40 PM,iv,"email settings",199
12/09/2008 2:39:18 PM,iv,"salesrep",998
12/09/2008 3:54:26 PM,tk,"acct creation",4508
12/09/2008 3:56:24 PM,ip,"cd copying",118
12/09/2008 4:20:00 PM,tk,"acct creation",1416
12/09/2008 4:40:00 PM,ip,"various things",1200
12/09/2008 5:39:21 PM,tk,"acct creation and an unexpect power supply replacement",3561
12/09/2008 5:46:32 PM,re,"rss",431

12/10/2008 7:55:00 AM,ar,"",0
12/10/2008 8:05:11 AM,em,"",611
12/10/2008 8:47:02 AM,tk,"acct update",2511
12/10/2008 9:07:38 AM,ip,"various",1236
12/10/2008 9:55:05 AM,ps,"cares",2847
12/10/2008 9:57:53 AM,em,"",168
12/10/2008 10:24:29 AM,cl,"xmas break",1596
12/10/2008 10:42:55 AM,em,"",1106
12/10/2008 11:53:20 AM,tk,"acct creation",4225
12/10/2008 11:55:24 AM,ip,"spouse",124
12/10/2008 12:20:44 PM,tk,"acct creation",1520
12/10/2008 12:24:23 PM,up,"correct digest lists",219
12/10/2008 12:32:01 PM,hc,"some helpdesk and other cleanup stuff",458
12/10/2008 1:13:52 PM,bk,"lunch",2511
12/10/2008 1:15:07 PM,bk,"lunch",75
12/10/2008 1:44:58 PM,iv,"a variety of things",1791
12/10/2008 1:52:22 PM,re,"first monday",444
12/10/2008 3:19:57 PM,mt,"pedcomm",5255
12/10/2008 3:23:08 PM,em,"",191
12/10/2008 3:29:22 PM,tk,"email followup",374
12/10/2008 4:32:41 PM,re,"rss",3799
12/10/2008 4:36:07 PM,ps,"rss",206
12/10/2008 4:38:24 PM,em,"pedcomm minutes",137

12/11/2008 8:04:39 AM,ar,"",0
12/11/2008 8:15:19 AM,em,"",640
12/11/2008 8:16:52 AM,iv,"email keeping",93
12/11/2008 8:29:30 AM,em,"",758
12/11/2008 9:00:13 AM,iv,"moodle",1843
12/11/2008 9:02:04 AM,iv,"student",111
12/11/2008 9:37:24 AM,iv,"asst",2120
12/11/2008 9:41:02 AM,iv,"another "this must be fixed now" button because my schedule is much more important than any schedule you may possibly have",218
12/11/2008 9:47:15 AM,em,"edtech",373
12/11/2008 10:01:37 AM,bk,"banana",862
12/11/2008 10:12:13 AM,hc,"wandering, interruptions",636
12/11/2008 10:15:54 AM,tk,"acct creation",221
12/11/2008 10:18:02 AM,ip,"software uninstall",128
12/11/2008 10:24:47 AM,em,"distance ed manuals",405
12/11/2008 11:04:59 AM,di,"fedora update",2412
12/11/2008 11:22:50 AM,tk,"acct creation stuff",1071
12/11/2008 11:44:13 AM,iv,"notebook troubles",1283
12/11/2008 11:59:39 AM,iv,"mostly computer, some email troubles",926
12/11/2008 12:10:52 PM,tk,"acct creation stuff",673
12/11/2008 12:16:07 PM,tk,"more office stuff",315
12/11/2008 12:52:43 PM,bk,"lunch",2196
12/11/2008 1:07:24 PM,re,"rss",881
12/11/2008 1:39:15 PM,tk,"sophos and outlook",1911
12/11/2008 5:02:57 PM,tk,"the nearly interminable account creation routine",12222

12/12/2008 8:05:26 AM,ar,"",0
12/12/2008 8:35:14 AM,em,"",1788
12/12/2008 8:35:33 AM,ip,"plans",19
12/12/2008 9:16:05 AM,em,"",2432
12/12/2008 9:23:24 AM,ip,"chasis intrusion error confusion",439
12/12/2008 9:33:00 AM,re,"rss",576
12/12/2008 9:33:41 AM,ip,"locate link browser",41
12/12/2008 9:48:03 AM,ps,"rss",862
12/12/2008 10:15:21 AM,cl,"bday party",1638
12/12/2008 10:29:28 AM,iv,"",847
12/12/2008 10:40:00 AM,tk,"acct creatoin",632
12/12/2008 10:41:25 AM,iv,"",85
12/12/2008 11:25:37 AM,iv,"student visit",2652
12/12/2008 11:30:12 AM,tk,"acct setup",275
12/12/2008 12:05:00 PM,iv,"student notebook fixing",2088
12/12/2008 12:21:32 PM,tk,"acct creation",992
12/12/2008 1:15:00 PM,bk,"lunch",3208
12/12/2008 4:00:03 PM,re,"paper presentation and soem coding",9903
12/12/2008 4:03:06 PM,hr,"acct setup",183
12/12/2008 4:28:35 PM,iv,"asst",1529
12/12/2008 4:52:16 PM,nw,"spt proposal",1421
12/12/2008 5:01:40 PM,tk,"acct creation script",564
12/12/2008 5:10:14 PM,re,"rss",514

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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