Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 6 March, 2009

Monday, March 9, 2009

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 6 March, 2009

5 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			45h 45m 50s
Time Working:			42h 11m 17s
	Planned:			20h 41m 32s
		Projects/Tasks:			11h 19m 44s
		Meetings:			4h 44m 27s
		Reading/Research:			1h 38m 49s
		Communication:			1h 56m 42s
		House cleaning:			1h 1m 50s
	Unplanned:			17h 14m 25s
		Distraction:			3h 10m 40s
		Interruption:			4h 50m 38s
		Projects/Tasks:			9h 13m 7s
	Other Work:			4h 15m 20s
		Non-work Work:			1h 12m 34s
		Community Life:			3h 2m 46s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			3h 34m 33s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			9h 9m 10s
Average Daily Working Time:			8h 26m 15s


Time Working:			92.19%
	Planned:			49.05%
		Projects/Tasks:			54.75%
		Meetings:			22.91%
		Reading/Research:			7.96%
		Communication:			9.40%
		House cleaning:			4.98%
	Unplanned:			40.87%
		Distraction:			18.43%
		Interruption:			28.10%
		Projects/Tasks:			53.47%
	Other Work:			10.09%
		Non-work Work:			28.42%
		Community Life:			71.58%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			7.81%

*** Raw Data ***

03/02/2009 8:00:19 AM,ar,"",0
03/02/2009 8:13:47 AM,em,"",808
03/02/2009 8:42:00 AM,tk,"prep asst",1693
03/02/2009 8:56:54 AM,iv,"fmr asst",894
03/02/2009 8:57:52 AM,em,"",58
03/02/2009 9:02:49 AM,up,"unsigned timecard",297
03/02/2009 9:45:32 AM,em,"",2563
03/02/2009 10:23:22 AM,cl,"monday",2270
03/02/2009 10:39:37 AM,tk,"seek asst",975
03/02/2009 10:43:28 AM,hc,"timecard",231
03/02/2009 10:52:52 AM,ip,"dead mouse (batteries?)",564
03/02/2009 11:07:29 AM,hr,"network",877
03/02/2009 11:10:20 AM,ip,"spouse",171
03/02/2009 11:39:17 AM,tk,"meeting prep",1737
03/02/2009 11:58:29 AM,tk,"meeting prep, copy jam, bad hd",1152
03/02/2009 12:04:39 PM,up,"dead hd",370
03/02/2009 12:09:17 PM,up,"dead hard drive",278
03/02/2009 12:14:25 PM,re,"rss",308
03/02/2009 12:53:35 PM,bk,"lunch",2350
03/02/2009 2:26:35 PM,mt,"ad fac",5580
03/02/2009 2:37:36 PM,em,"",661
03/02/2009 3:00:51 PM,up,"various little things",1395
03/02/2009 3:42:13 PM,tk,"shopping and an interruption or two and some reading",2482
03/02/2009 3:51:20 PM,re,"rss",547
03/02/2009 3:57:17 PM,tk,"shopping",357
03/02/2009 5:10:12 PM,tk,"dead hard drive revival ... argh",4375

03/03/2009 7:54:51 AM,ar,"",0
03/03/2009 8:11:15 AM,hc,"bootup backup crap",984
03/03/2009 8:26:35 AM,iv,"dead hard drive",920
03/03/2009 8:31:12 AM,em,"",277
03/03/2009 9:09:01 AM,tk,"various wanderings",2269
03/03/2009 9:38:17 AM,tk,"file recovery",1756
03/03/2009 10:34:43 AM,nw,"chapel prep",3386
03/03/2009 11:02:50 AM,re,"rss",1687
03/03/2009 11:18:58 AM,nw,"b-board material",968
03/03/2009 12:14:04 PM,cl,"worship",3306
03/03/2009 1:13:45 PM,bk,"lunch (miranda's)",3581
03/03/2009 1:28:03 PM,iv,"recovered hd",858
03/03/2009 1:52:36 PM,up,"dead drives ... is the spate over?",1473
03/03/2009 2:08:42 PM,re,"rss",966
03/03/2009 2:31:13 PM,tk,"moodle",1351
03/03/2009 2:36:43 PM,tk,"moodle tuts",330
03/03/2009 3:59:22 PM,tk,"moodle",4959
03/03/2009 4:07:14 PM,iv,"scanning troubles -- can we just drop the scanner altogether?",472
03/03/2009 4:43:13 PM,tk,"moodle",2159
03/03/2009 4:48:00 PM,up,"seeking cynthia",287
03/03/2009 5:01:02 PM,re,"rss",782
03/03/2009 5:07:07 PM,tk,"check hd status",365

03/04/2009 8:01:02 AM,ar,"",0
03/04/2009 8:14:12 AM,hr,"",790
03/04/2009 8:28:13 AM,iv,"room arrangements",841
03/04/2009 8:38:39 AM,em,"",626
03/04/2009 9:57:53 AM,tk,"loungekiosk computer",4754
03/04/2009 10:09:10 AM,re,"rss",677
03/04/2009 10:10:20 AM,re,"rss",70
03/04/2009 10:54:16 AM,up,"another dying hd? really? can this be?",2636
03/04/2009 11:12:35 AM,tk,"moodle stuff and e-mail",1099
03/04/2009 11:30:00 AM,up,"lounge kiosk",1045
03/04/2009 11:44:00 AM,iv,"projector H",840
03/04/2009 12:28:58 PM,up,"dead stupid lounge computer (hd?)",2698
03/04/2009 12:34:24 PM,up,"stupid loungekiosk",326
03/04/2009 1:38:58 PM,bk,"lunch",3874
03/04/2009 1:41:44 PM,em,"",166
03/04/2009 1:52:58 PM,tk,"meeting prep stuff, prematurely ended",674
03/04/2009 3:33:21 PM,mt,"pedcomm",6023
03/04/2009 4:02:28 PM,hc,"follow up stuff",1747
03/04/2009 4:32:35 PM,up,"more dead drive. I'd like to do something else tomorrow ... but probably won't be able to.",1807
03/04/2009 5:07:37 PM,up,"more hd troubleshooting",2102

03/05/2009 7:51:35 AM,ar,"",0
03/05/2009 8:00:41 AM,em,"",546
03/05/2009 8:07:52 AM,hr,"",431
03/05/2009 8:08:39 AM,em,"",47
03/05/2009 8:24:04 AM,up,"hard drive difficulties: five of six (only one more until something else fails)",925
03/05/2009 9:42:14 AM,up,"microphone in chapel",4690
03/05/2009 9:45:10 AM,em,"",176
03/05/2009 11:20:10 AM,iv,"asst",5700
03/05/2009 11:22:53 AM,em,"",163
03/05/2009 11:27:11 AM,ph,"stuff",258
03/05/2009 11:30:10 AM,ph,"",179
03/05/2009 1:00:00 PM,cl,"forum and prep time therefore",5390
03/05/2009 1:31:21 PM,iv,"various asst troubles w/mics",1881
03/05/2009 1:39:12 PM,hc,"various little things",471
03/05/2009 3:10:16 PM,mt,"monthly",5464
03/05/2009 3:14:53 PM,hc,"little things",277
03/05/2009 4:51:27 PM,di,"just a bunch of loose ends to clean up. Got at least some of them.",5794
03/05/2009 5:06:19 PM,re,"rss",892

03/06/2009 8:01:04 AM,ar,"",0
03/06/2009 8:08:58 AM,em,"",474
03/06/2009 9:24:28 AM,di,"spiceworks -- this is how quickly we head down rabbit trails",4530
03/06/2009 10:32:16 AM,up,"dead hard drive that may really be a dead cdrom drive",4068
03/06/2009 11:04:36 AM,tk,"ped comm minutes",1940
03/06/2009 11:28:22 AM,tk,"some attempted cleanup",1426
03/06/2009 11:46:58 AM,di,"various little things ... must be spring",1116
03/06/2009 12:10:40 PM,tk,"pedcommminutes",1422
03/06/2009 1:01:48 PM,bk,"lunch",3068
03/06/2009 1:22:49 PM,up,"dead hard drives",1261
03/06/2009 1:38:52 PM,tk,"new battery and more hard drive troubleshooting",963
03/06/2009 2:56:07 PM,up,"more hard drives",4635
03/06/2009 3:09:23 PM,up,"asst work",796
03/06/2009 3:23:08 PM,tk,"moodle training",825
03/06/2009 4:34:45 PM,ip,"oy yoy yoy",4297
03/06/2009 5:03:26 PM,tk,"moodle",1721

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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