Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 27 March, 2009

Monday, March 30, 2009

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 27 March, 2009

5 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			42h 25m 49s
Time Working:			37h 22m 25s
	Planned:			10h 29m 50s
		Projects/Tasks:			4h 54m 33s
		Meetings:			0h 0m 0s
		Reading/Research:			2h 13m 24s
		Communication:			2h 14m 50s
		House cleaning:			1h 7m 3s
	Unplanned:			22h 34m 28s
		Distraction:			3h 11m 49s
		Interruption:			3h 33m 22s
		Projects/Tasks:			15h 49m 17s
	Other Work:			4h 18m 7s
		Non-work Work:			1h 37m 21s
		Community Life:			2h 40m 46s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			5h 3m 24s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			8h 29m 9s
Average Daily Working Time:			7h 28m 29s


Time Working:			88.08%
	Planned:			28.09%
		Projects/Tasks:			46.77%
		Meetings:			0.00%
		Reading/Research:			21.18%
		Communication:			21.41%
		House cleaning:			10.65%
	Unplanned:			60.40%
		Distraction:			14.16%
		Interruption:			15.75%
		Projects/Tasks:			70.09%
	Other Work:			11.51%
		Non-work Work:			37.72%
		Community Life:			62.28%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			11.92%

*** Raw Data ***

03/23/2009 8:01:59 AM,ar,"",0
03/23/2009 8:13:59 AM,em,"",720
03/23/2009 9:21:53 AM,up,"big satisfaction updating stuff",4074
03/23/2009 9:31:34 AM,re,"rss",581
03/23/2009 9:49:21 AM,hr,"moodle stuff",1067
03/23/2009 10:24:00 AM,cl,"monday",2079
03/23/2009 10:26:00 AM,ph,"check msgs",120
03/23/2009 11:53:00 AM,up,"loungekiosk2",5220
03/23/2009 12:05:00 PM,nw,"mtg prep",720
03/23/2009 1:00:00 PM,bk,"lunch",3300
03/23/2009 2:41:00 PM,up,"loungekiosk",6060
03/23/2009 3:15:00 PM,ph,"conf call questions",2040
03/23/2009 3:19:00 PM,ph,"inet conx ?",240
03/23/2009 4:21:00 PM,up,"kiosks",3720
03/23/2009 4:39:00 PM,em,"",1080

03/24/2009 7:57:00 AM,ar,"",0
03/24/2009 8:01:00 AM,up,"winxp installatoin",240
03/24/2009 8:28:00 AM,up,"stupid computer",1620
03/24/2009 8:52:00 AM,up,"waiting",1440
03/24/2009 8:56:00 AM,hr,"find dvd",240
03/24/2009 9:04:00 AM,up,"longest "minute" ever",480
03/24/2009 9:08:00 AM,up,"more xp reinstall",240
03/24/2009 9:13:00 AM,hr,"meeting?",300
03/24/2009 9:17:00 AM,hc,"office",240
03/24/2009 11:37:00 AM,up,"DVD stuff and miscellaneous troubles",8400
03/24/2009 11:42:00 AM,up,"stupid computer",300
03/24/2009 11:46:00 AM,up,"system restore",240
03/24/2009 12:03:00 PM,re,"first monday",1020
03/24/2009 12:10:00 PM,ip,"spouse",420
03/24/2009 12:56:00 PM,bk,"lunch",2760
03/24/2009 1:25:00 PM,up,"more computer fixing",1740
03/24/2009 2:01:00 PM,hc,"office",2160
03/24/2009 4:09:000 PM,tk,"moodle stuff (and lots of tinkering with the computer)",0
03/24/2009 4:55:00 PM,hc,"office",0
03/24/2009 5:01:00 PM,re,"rss",360

03/25/2009 7:56:00 AM,ar,"",0
03/25/2009 8:59:00 AM,up,"stupid computer",3780
03/25/2009 9:05:00 AM,ip,"dead mouse",360
03/25/2009 10:06:00 AM,ps,"CARES",3660
03/25/2009 10:11:00 AM,ip,"drupal menus",300
03/25/2009 10:32:00 AM,hr,"drupal menus",1260
03/25/2009 10:53:00 AM,up,"dead computer",1260
03/25/2009 10:58:00 AM,hr,"job storage printing",300
03/25/2009 11:15:00 AM,hc,"office cleaning",1020
03/25/2009 11:28:00 AM,up,"computer babysitting",780
03/25/2009 11:47:00 AM,up,"more cleanup and computer and email stuff",1140
03/25/2009 12:13:00 PM,re,"rss and e-mail",1560
03/25/2009 1:30:00 PM,bk,"lunch",4620
03/25/2009 1:48:00 PM,up,"seek new computer",1080
03/25/2009 1:53:00 PM,ph,"check msgs",300
03/25/2009 2:00:00 PM,up,"tax exempt ... computer sort of works!",420
03/25/2009 2:02:00 PM,up,"no it doesn't - bsod",120
03/25/2009 2:41:00 PM,iv,"disproportionate",2340
03/25/2009 2:50:00 PM,hr,"drupal php problem",540
03/25/2009 3:29:00 PM,up,"miscellaneous cleanup stuff",2340
03/25/2009 3:33:00 PM,iv,"survey questions",240
03/25/2009 3:57:18 PM,up,"catch up on tasks",1458
03/25/2009 5:07:26 PM,hr,"drupal and php",4208
03/25/2009 5:12:48 PM,re,"rss",322

03/26/2009 7:57:28 AM,ar,"",0
03/26/2009 8:07:16 AM,em,"",588
03/26/2009 8:22:21 AM,re,"rss",905
03/26/2009 9:46:21 AM,nw,"eval",5040
03/26/2009 10:25:59 AM,cl,"volunteer farewell break",2378
03/26/2009 10:39:21 AM,tk,"check computer settings",802
03/26/2009 11:07:48 AM,iv,"moodle user enrolment",1707
03/26/2009 11:26:35 AM,re,"rss",1127
03/26/2009 11:53:21 AM,hr,"printing",1606
03/26/2009 11:55:58 AM,em,"",157
03/26/2009 1:22:27 PM,cl,"forum",5189
03/26/2009 1:40:06 PM,tk,"moodle",1059
03/26/2009 2:33:55 PM,tk,"moodle tuts",3229
03/26/2009 2:39:12 PM,hc,"mail etc",317
03/26/2009 3:34:16 PM,tk,"moodle",3304
03/26/2009 3:59:20 PM,tk,"moodle",1504
03/26/2009 4:07:04 PM,iv,"ds",464
03/26/2009 4:51:09 PM,tk,"moodle",2645
03/26/2009 5:07:14 PM,iv,"slow boot",965

03/27/2009 7:50:51 AM,ar,"",0
03/27/2009 8:22:49 AM,em,"",1918
03/27/2009 9:05:08 AM,tk,"update backup scripts ... should be faster",2539
03/27/2009 9:08:50 AM,hr,"evals",222
03/27/2009 9:24:17 AM,em,"",927
03/27/2009 9:32:00 AM,re,"rss",463
03/27/2009 9:44:24 AM,re,"rss",744
03/27/2009 9:45:21 AM,iv,"ds",57
03/27/2009 10:00:43 AM,re,"rss",922
03/27/2009 10:02:04 AM,nw,"phil tech",81
03/27/2009 10:10:59 AM,bk,"wandering",535
03/27/2009 10:28:41 AM,up,"stupid domain transfer business",1062
03/27/2009 11:32:26 AM,di,"exploding dog",3825
03/27/2009 11:43:27 AM,di,"pipes",661
03/27/2009 12:08:42 PM,di,"more pipes (this is potentially useful for creating a new books feed)",1515
03/27/2009 1:04:11 PM,bk,"lunch",3329
03/27/2009 1:13:47 PM,di,"pipes",576
03/27/2009 1:39:53 PM,iv,"media and phone stuff",1566
03/27/2009 1:45:33 PM,di,"pipes",340
03/27/2009 2:42:19 PM,di,"pipes",3406
03/27/2009 2:44:58 PM,ip,"ministry studies transfer stuff",159
03/27/2009 3:24:57 PM,iv,"asst",2399
03/27/2009 3:55:22 PM,iv,"asst",1825
03/27/2009 4:15:08 PM,di,"not sure what I was doing just now ... it's friday afternoon",1186
03/27/2009 4:19:54 PM,hc,"take care of CD",286
03/27/2009 4:22:22 PM,tk,"moodle",148
03/27/2009 5:03:05 PM,tk,"moodle",2443

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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