Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 16 September, 2009

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 16 September, 2009

5 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			47h 45m 4s
Time Working:			41h 40m 27s
	Planned:			16h 58m 41s
		Projects/Tasks:			10h 45m 47s
		Meetings:			0h 0m 0s
		Reading/Research:			2h 59m 38s
		Communication:			2h 48m 27s
		House cleaning:			0h 24m 49s
	Unplanned:			24h 41m 46s
		Distraction:			0h 0m 0s
		Interruption:			7h 0m 10s
		Projects/Tasks:			17h 41m 36s
	Other Work:			0h 0m 0s
		Non-work Work:			0h 0m 0s
		Community Life:			0h 0m 0s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			6h 4m 37s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			9h 33m 0s
Average Daily Working Time:			8h 20m 5s


Time Working:			87.27%
	Planned:			40.74%
		Projects/Tasks:			63.39%
		Meetings:			0.00%
		Reading/Research:			17.63%
		Communication:			16.54%
		House cleaning:			2.44%
	Unplanned:			59.26%
		Distraction:			0.00%
		Interruption:			28.36%
		Projects/Tasks:			71.64%
	Other Work:			0.00%
		Non-work Work:			%
		Community Life:			%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			12.73%

*** Raw Data ***

9/14/2009 7:47:24 AM,ar,"",0
9/14/2009 7:54:09 AM,em,"",405
9/14/2009 8:15:24 AM,iv,"asst",1275
9/14/2009 8:48:27 AM,hr,"new comp",1983
9/14/2009 8:51:45 AM,re,"rss",198
9/14/2009 9:28:08 AM,iv,"",2183
9/14/2009 9:50:51 AM,re,"rss",1363
9/14/2009 10:20:00 AM,bk,"monday",1749
9/14/2009 11:26:19 AM,hr,"phones printers and other",3979
9/14/2009 11:29:24 AM,em,"",185
9/14/2009 11:48:29 AM,hr,"computer",1145
9/14/2009 12:07:22 PM,hr,"accts and phones and notebooks",1133
9/14/2009 12:42:50 PM,bk,"lunch",2128
9/14/2009 12:50:54 PM,em,"",484
9/14/2009 12:52:08 PM,hr,"computer fixing",74
9/14/2009 12:58:57 PM,hc,"mail call",409
9/14/2009 1:14:25 PM,ps,"slate",928
9/14/2009 1:42:42 PM,tk,"networwk swittches",1697
9/14/2009 1:48:44 PM,hr,"student computer check",362
9/14/2009 1:58:35 PM,hr,"student computer",591
9/14/2009 3:11:28 PM,hr,"moodle training",4373
9/14/2009 3:41:09 PM,em,"",1781
9/14/2009 3:57:26 PM,iv,"student help",977
9/14/2009 4:30:55 PM,hr,"moodle",2009
9/14/2009 4:36:24 PM,tk,"groups",329
9/14/2009 4:55:36 PM,re,"rss",1152
9/14/2009 4:59:51 PM,tk,"upload moodle users",255

9/15/2009 7:41:59 AM,ar,"",0
9/15/2009 7:57:03 AM,em,"",904
9/15/2009 7:57:35 AM,em,"",32
9/15/2009 8:22:46 AM,hr,"volunteer coordinator",1511
9/15/2009 8:27:16 AM,iv,"check phone messages instructions",270
9/15/2009 9:00:40 AM,re,"rss",2004
9/15/2009 9:26:59 AM,tk,"enrollment scripting",1579
9/15/2009 9:27:48 AM,ph,"check messages",49
9/15/2009 9:46:05 AM,tk,"rosters work",1097
9/15/2009 9:59:51 AM,hr,"ppt template",826
9/15/2009 10:20:15 AM,tk,"enroll moodle",1224
9/15/2009 11:08:43 AM,ip,"vision email issues",2908
9/15/2009 11:22:24 AM,ip,"re anywhere",821
9/15/2009 11:25:14 AM,ip,"moodle",170
9/15/2009 11:28:30 AM,bk,"p",196
9/15/2009 11:41:50 AM,iv,"snow leopard discussion",800
9/15/2009 12:00:05 PM,iv,"student computer",1095
9/15/2009 12:19:43 PM,up,"new computer setup",1178
9/15/2009 12:25:08 PM,up,"student computer cleanup",325
9/15/2009 1:06:51 PM,bk,"lunch",2503
9/15/2009 1:09:28 PM,em,"",157
9/15/2009 1:20:00 PM,ps,"tmq",632
9/15/2009 1:33:03 PM,iv,"online distribution of materials",783
9/15/2009 1:46:18 PM,ps,"tmq",795
9/15/2009 3:11:51 PM,hr,"printer setup (why must kyocera be so difficult?)",5133
9/15/2009 3:17:28 PM,up,"new comp setup",337
9/15/2009 3:54:08 PM,hr,"couple of things",2200
9/15/2009 4:12:50 PM,em,"",1122
9/15/2009 4:32:10 PM,hr,"various",1160
9/15/2009 4:54:58 PM,iv,"bibwork font troubles",1368
9/15/2009 5:06:35 PM,iv,"various",697

9/16/2009 7:30:24 AM,ar,"",0
9/16/2009 7:45:46 AM,re,"rss",922
9/16/2009 7:53:45 AM,em,"",479
9/16/2009 7:56:37 AM,hc,"helpdesk stuff",172
9/16/2009 8:07:36 AM,hc,"printer cartridge",659
9/16/2009 8:24:41 AM,tk,"moodle enroll stuff",1025
9/16/2009 8:27:33 AM,ip,"",172
9/16/2009 8:29:32 AM,up,"experts exchange awarded solution",119
9/16/2009 8:56:42 AM,ip,"moodle",1630
9/16/2009 9:01:26 AM,tk,"course enrollments",284
9/16/2009 9:10:30 AM,tk,"moodle enrollments",544
9/16/2009 9:10:59 AM,hc,"email",29
9/16/2009 10:15:00 AM,ps,"CARES",3841
9/16/2009 10:20:44 AM,hr,"new asst setup",344
9/16/2009 10:26:03 AM,em,"",319
9/16/2009 11:43:07 AM,hr,"computer issues",4624
9/16/2009 11:49:53 AM,em,"",406
9/16/2009 11:58:26 AM,tk,"rosters import",513
9/16/2009 12:48:10 PM,bk,"lunch",2984
9/16/2009 12:53:58 PM,tk,"moodle courses",348
9/16/2009 2:07:54 PM,hr,"various",4436
9/16/2009 2:57:10 PM,up,"notebook delivery",2956
9/16/2009 3:13:50 PM,tk,"class rosters enroll program",1000
9/16/2009 3:26:39 PM,ip,"dead network",769
9/16/2009 4:00:27 PM,tk,"rosters work",2028
9/16/2009 5:50:56 PM,tk,"install fest (with only one taker)",6629

9/17/2009 7:39:19 AM,ar,"",0
9/17/2009 7:48:00 AM,em,"",521
9/17/2009 7:54:44 AM,tk,"network switch",404
9/17/2009 7:55:46 AM,em,"",62
9/17/2009 8:15:46 AM,re,"rss",1200
9/17/2009 8:27:33 AM,hr,"net conx",707
9/17/2009 9:05:15 AM,hr,"sophos",2262
9/17/2009 9:27:47 AM,hr,"moodle question",1352
9/17/2009 9:31:39 AM,em,"",232
9/17/2009 10:19:01 AM,hr,"break",2842
9/17/2009 11:25:17 AM,hr,"various",3976
9/17/2009 11:29:21 AM,hr,"computer setup",244
9/17/2009 12:18:24 PM,hr,"various littlish things",2943
9/17/2009 1:02:16 PM,bk,"lunch",2632
9/17/2009 1:39:25 PM,up,"notebook setup",2229
9/17/2009 1:51:18 PM,hr,"computer fixing",713
9/17/2009 2:24:07 PM,hr,"dry run",1969
9/17/2009 2:30:16 PM,em,"",369
9/17/2009 2:36:44 PM,bk,"d",388
9/17/2009 3:24:26 PM,up,"acct creation",2862
9/17/2009 3:26:22 PM,tk,"exports",116
9/17/2009 3:55:51 PM,tk,"student course enrollments stuff",1769
9/17/2009 3:57:53 PM,ip,"owa",122
9/17/2009 3:58:57 PM,em,"",64
9/17/2009 4:34:24 PM,tk,"rosters import script updating",2127
9/17/2009 4:37:59 PM,bk,"p",215
9/17/2009 4:48:31 PM,ip,"computer crash",632
9/17/2009 5:10:53 PM,tk,"rosters upload perl hash issues",1342

9/18/2009 7:44:00 AM,ar,"d",0
9/18/2009 7:47:40 AM,hc,"computer start up stuff",220
9/18/2009 7:55:01 AM,iv,"wknd plans",441
9/18/2009 8:13:37 AM,re,"rss",1116
9/18/2009 8:36:59 AM,iv,"printer install on mac",1402
9/18/2009 8:57:06 AM,tk,"battery order",1207
9/18/2009 10:05:30 AM,iv,"moodle training",4104
9/18/2009 10:13:06 AM,em,"",456
9/18/2009 10:39:12 AM,tk,"various things",1566
9/18/2009 10:43:56 AM,hr,"password issues (keyboard to blame)",284
9/18/2009 10:48:24 AM,ip,"taskbar not autohiding properly",268
9/18/2009 11:11:25 AM,tk,"course enrollment script tweaking",1381
9/18/2009 11:54:30 AM,tk,"courses enroll scripting (closer ...)",2585
9/18/2009 12:07:15 PM,iv,"printing issue",765
9/18/2009 12:22:07 PM,tk,"course enrollment script (not quite all courses are getting captured properly)",892
9/18/2009 1:05:12 PM,bk,"lunch",2585
9/18/2009 1:13:47 PM,up,"mac drivers for library printer",515
9/18/2009 1:18:42 PM,tk,"course enrollment",295
9/18/2009 1:22:05 PM,ip,"norton software that should have been removed earlier except that I forgot to do it",203
9/18/2009 2:23:32 PM,tk,"course roster upload",3687
9/18/2009 2:35:42 PM,iv,"stop auto numbering",730
9/18/2009 2:37:09 PM,em,"",87
9/18/2009 3:04:52 PM,tk,"course enrollment script complete",1663
9/18/2009 3:38:05 PM,em,"",1993
9/18/2009 3:40:22 PM,tk,"accts",137
9/18/2009 3:57:26 PM,tk,"desktops",1024
9/18/2009 4:07:51 PM,ip,"adobe saving",625
9/18/2009 4:38:36 PM,re,"rss",1845
9/18/2009 4:54:54 PM,re,"rss",978
9/18/2009 4:59:55 PM,ps,"espn",301

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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