Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 22 May, 2009

Monday, May 25, 2009

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 22 May, 2009

5 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			45h 6m 49s
Time Working:			40h 20m 45s
	Planned:			15h 19m 27s
		Projects/Tasks:			5h 31m 50s
		Meetings:			0h 0m 0s
		Reading/Research:			3h 27m 0s
		Communication:			5h 18m 17s
		House cleaning:			1h 2m 20s
	Unplanned:			21h 31m 41s
		Distraction:			0h 15m 37s
		Interruption:			3h 58m 36s
		Projects/Tasks:			17h 17m 28s
	Other Work:			3h 29m 37s
		Non-work Work:			1h 31m 11s
		Community Life:			1h 58m 26s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			4h 46m 4s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			9h 1m 21s
Average Daily Working Time:			8h 4m 9s


Time Working:			89.43%
	Planned:			37.98%
		Projects/Tasks:			36.09%
		Meetings:			0.00%
		Reading/Research:			22.51%
		Communication:			34.62%
		House cleaning:			6.78%
	Unplanned:			53.36%
		Distraction:			1.21%
		Interruption:			18.47%
		Projects/Tasks:			80.32%
	Other Work:			8.66%
		Non-work Work:			43.50%
		Community Life:			56.50%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			10.57%

*** Raw Data ***

05/18/2009 7:57:54 AM,ar,"",0
05/18/2009 8:36:44 AM,em,"",2330
05/18/2009 8:42:11 AM,iv,"office visit",327
05/18/2009 8:45:51 AM,iv,"asst",220
05/18/2009 9:00:59 AM,em,"",908
05/18/2009 9:15:26 AM,iv,"avg",867
05/18/2009 9:23:57 AM,em,"",511
05/18/2009 9:27:57 AM,em,"",240
05/18/2009 9:57:48 AM,em,"",1791
05/18/2009 10:20:08 AM,bk,"monday",1340
05/18/2009 10:37:27 AM,up,"consultation",1039
05/18/2009 11:17:03 AM,tk,"shopping",2376
05/18/2009 11:19:05 AM,iv,"lost and found?",122
05/18/2009 11:22:21 AM,up,"budget stuff",196
05/18/2009 11:24:23 AM,iv,"access to e-mail acct",122
05/18/2009 11:31:08 AM,bk,"d",405
05/18/2009 11:56:37 AM,em,"",1529
05/18/2009 12:20:30 PM,re,"rss",1433
05/18/2009 12:57:10 PM,bk,"lunch",2200
05/18/2009 1:20:28 PM,tk,"sign up for moodle stuff",1398
05/18/2009 1:59:41 PM,re,"rss",2353
05/18/2009 2:25:15 PM,tk,"moodle gradebook investigation",1534
05/18/2009 2:29:02 PM,em,"",227
05/18/2009 4:27:28 PM,cl,"emp recog event",7106
05/18/2009 4:30:51 PM,em,"",203
05/18/2009 4:33:53 PM,ph,"",182
05/18/2009 4:38:57 PM,iv,"sys config util",304
05/18/2009 4:39:37 PM,ps,"spouse",40
05/18/2009 4:58:59 PM,up,"website upgrade",1162
05/18/2009 5:03:36 PM,re,"rss",277

05/19/2009 8:00:30 AM,ar,"",0
05/19/2009 8:01:51 AM,up,"change startup tasks",81
05/19/2009 8:12:00 AM,em,"",609
05/19/2009 8:14:29 AM,ip,"",149
05/19/2009 8:27:06 AM,em,"",757
05/19/2009 8:31:11 AM,ip,"e-mail sending in library",245
05/19/2009 8:34:05 AM,ip,"false alarm",174
05/19/2009 9:19:34 AM,tk,"web filtering memo",2729
05/19/2009 9:36:51 AM,em,"",1037
05/19/2009 9:53:23 AM,re,"rss",992
05/19/2009 10:16:01 AM,up,"board docs repository",1358
05/19/2009 10:22:14 AM,hc,"plan next steps",373
05/19/2009 10:38:06 AM,re,"tteg",952
05/19/2009 10:38:11 AM,iv,"webinar",5
05/19/2009 10:56:20 AM,re,"edtech",1089
05/19/2009 11:04:49 AM,re,"dban",509
05/19/2009 11:04:52 AM,iv,"extension cord",3
05/19/2009 11:22:07 AM,iv,"unwarranted and unexpected praise",1035
05/19/2009 11:54:00 AM,tk,"wipe old server ... failed",1913
05/19/2009 12:08:01 PM,tk,"shockwave",841
05/19/2009 12:09:58 PM,tk,"consider gradebook and assignments tutorials",117
05/19/2009 12:26:02 PM,up,"wipe server (old) ... still failing",964
05/19/2009 1:11:46 PM,bk,"lunch",2744
05/19/2009 1:13:16 PM,em,"",90
05/19/2009 1:32:20 PM,tk,"moodle",1144
05/19/2009 1:56:17 PM,iv,"no dvd playing",1437
05/19/2009 2:13:47 PM,ip,"little things",1050
05/19/2009 2:27:30 PM,ip,"no dvd playing",823
05/19/2009 2:50:54 PM,em,"",1404
05/19/2009 3:51:40 PM,em,"",3646
05/19/2009 3:59:29 PM,re,"rss",469
05/19/2009 4:02:00 PM,hc,"mail check",151
05/19/2009 4:58:30 PM,up,"itunesu stuff",3390
05/19/2009 5:01:13 PM,up,"blank server",163

05/20/2009 8:08:30 AM,ar,"",0
05/20/2009 8:40:54 AM,re,"rss",1944
05/20/2009 8:54:54 AM,em,"",840
05/20/2009 10:11:02 AM,ps,"CARES",4568
05/20/2009 10:15:11 AM,em,"and some hc",249
05/20/2009 10:28:21 AM,hc,"reboot and install updates",790
05/20/2009 10:44:10 AM,up,"reinstall blackbaud",949
05/20/2009 10:51:23 AM,up,"update bbsis",433
05/20/2009 11:11:20 AM,iv,"plaxo",1197
05/20/2009 12:29:56 PM,up,"drupal",4716
05/20/2009 1:19:40 PM,bk,"lunch",2984
05/20/2009 1:34:47 PM,up,"update drupal",907
05/20/2009 2:07:26 PM,iv,"dp",1959
05/20/2009 3:58:04 PM,up,"website update",6638
05/20/2009 4:04:11 PM,iv,"room arrangements",367
05/20/2009 4:12:40 PM,tk,"moodle update",509
05/20/2009 5:20:09 PM,up,"drupal update",4049

05/21/2009 7:48:00 AM,ar,"",0
05/21/2009 7:53:30 AM,em,"",330
05/21/2009 7:57:42 AM,em,"",252
05/21/2009 7:59:10 AM,ph,"",88
05/21/2009 8:17:00 AM,up,"drupal update",1070
05/21/2009 8:20:27 AM,em,"",207
05/21/2009 9:23:58 AM,up,"drupal update",3811
05/21/2009 9:45:01 AM,up,"drupal",1263
05/21/2009 10:00:38 AM,di,"outlook attachment stripper",937
05/21/2009 10:05:15 AM,ip,"drupal stuff",277
05/21/2009 10:41:39 AM,up,"drupal",2184
05/21/2009 10:50:00 AM,up,"drupal (some more)",501
05/21/2009 11:04:06 AM,re,"rss",846
05/21/2009 12:12:16 PM,up,"blank dell",4090
05/21/2009 1:00:19 PM,bk,"lunch",2883
05/21/2009 1:03:57 PM,hc,"e-mail and updates",218
05/21/2009 1:28:31 PM,hc,"updates",1474
05/21/2009 1:39:51 PM,up,"wipe old computer",680
05/21/2009 1:44:46 PM,up,"updates",295
05/21/2009 1:59:30 PM,ip,"software installation",884
05/21/2009 2:32:02 PM,up,"shred hard drive ... finally working",1952
05/21/2009 3:26:19 PM,up,"drupal",3257
05/21/2009 4:06:50 PM,up,"drupal stuff",2431
05/21/2009 4:15:27 PM,up,"itunes",517
05/21/2009 4:54:58 PM,up,"art catalog",2371
05/21/2009 4:57:22 PM,iv,"argh",144
05/21/2009 5:14:50 PM,re,"rss",1048

05/22/2009 8:20:55 AM,hc,"start up stuff",0
05/22/2009 9:47:34 AM,nw,"dean's bfst",5199
05/22/2009 9:53:27 AM,up,"website stuff",353
05/22/2009 10:39:56 AM,up,"drupal website",2789
05/22/2009 10:42:29 AM,ip,"telemarketing ... argh",153
05/22/2009 11:12:35 AM,up,"drupal",1806
05/22/2009 11:21:03 AM,re,"rss",508
05/22/2009 11:25:35 AM,nw,"new comic",272
05/22/2009 11:37:49 AM,hc,"mail check",734
05/22/2009 12:33:45 PM,tk,"moodle vid",3356
05/22/2009 1:29:06 PM,up,"web pages",3321
05/22/2009 1:58:13 PM,up,"davka",1747
05/22/2009 2:26:00 PM,vi,"various",1667
05/22/2009 2:51:07 PM,iv,"prep asst",1507
05/22/2009 3:25:00 PM,tk,"moodle vids",2033
05/22/2009 3:50:13 PM,tk,"moodle vid",1513
05/22/2009 4:05:58 PM,iv,"asst",945
05/22/2009 4:13:25 PM,tk,"moodle videos",447
05/22/2009 4:42:50 PM,up,"web site slow down stuff",1765

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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