Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 0 October, 2009

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 0 October, 2009

5 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			45h 57m 48s
Time Working:			39h 30m 35s
	Planned:			14h 57m 3s
		Projects/Tasks:			2h 34m 33s
		Meetings:			4h 57m 23s
		Reading/Research:			5h 16m 28s
		Communication:			1h 25m 52s
		House cleaning:			0h 42m 47s
	Unplanned:			15h 52m 5s
		Distraction:			0h 0m 0s
		Interruption:			7h 55m 25s
		Projects/Tasks:			7h 56m 40s
	Other Work:			7h 30m 13s
		Non-work Work:			6h 2m 23s
		Community Life:			1h 27m 50s
	Unspecified:			1h 11m 14s
Personal/Break:			6h 27m 13s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			9h 11m 33s
Average Daily Working Time:			7h 54m 7s


Time Working:			85.96%
	Planned:			37.84%
		Projects/Tasks:			17.23%
		Meetings:			33.15%
		Reading/Research:			35.28%
		Communication:			9.57%
		House cleaning:			4.77%
	Unplanned:			40.16%
		Distraction:			0.00%
		Interruption:			49.93%
		Projects/Tasks:			50.07%
	Other Work:			18.99%
		Non-work Work:			80.49%
		Community Life:			19.51%
	Unspecified:			3.00%
Personal/Break:			14.04%

*** Raw Data ***

9/28/2009 7:40:56 AM,ar,"",0
9/28/2009 7:55:57 AM,em,"",901
9/28/2009 7:59:22 AM,iv,"copy codes",205
9/28/2009 8:11:29 AM,re,"rss",727
9/28/2009 8:27:30 AM,ps,"espn",961
9/28/2009 8:34:37 AM,ps,"espn",427
9/28/2009 9:08:46 AM,tk,"itunes u",2049
9/28/2009 9:18:53 AM,tk,"moodle rosters import",607
9/28/2009 9:30:34 AM,vi,"itunes u",701
9/28/2009 9:33:53 AM,up,"surveymonkey",199
9/28/2009 9:59:20 AM,iv,"fmrasst",1527
9/28/2009 10:28:06 AM,bk,"monday",1726
9/28/2009 10:32:21 AM,re,"rss",255
9/28/2009 10:39:25 AM,bk,"d",424
9/28/2009 10:45:28 AM,hr,"cisco vpn",363
9/28/2009 10:49:46 AM,iv,"ambs central issues",258
9/28/2009 10:54:44 AM,hr,"cisco vpn",298
9/28/2009 10:58:37 AM,hr,"cisco vpn",233
9/28/2009 11:00:47 AM,ip,"moodle question",130
9/28/2009 12:09:41 PM,hr,"surveymonkey",4134
9/28/2009 12:13:41 PM,iv,"bh",240
9/28/2009 12:50:44 PM,bk,"lunch",2223
9/28/2009 2:57:24 PM,mt,"all fac",7600
9/28/2009 3:27:09 PM,hr,"computer order",1785
9/28/2009 3:34:20 PM,up,"memory update",431
9/28/2009 3:47:03 PM,re,"rss",763
9/28/2009 3:49:21 PM,iv,"google docs?",138
9/28/2009 4:07:18 PM,re,"rss",1077
9/28/2009 4:14:00 PM,em,"",402
9/28/2009 4:29:49 PM,hc,"",949
9/28/2009 4:54:10 PM,re,"thinking about forum",1461
9/28/2009 4:57:02 PM,ps,"web browsing",172

9/29/2009 7:40:31 AM,ar,"",0
9/29/2009 7:42:58 AM,em,"",147
9/29/2009 7:45:01 AM,em,"",123
9/29/2009 8:11:52 AM,ip,"dead network",1611
9/29/2009 8:33:37 AM,hr,"notebook wireless drop out",1305
9/29/2009 9:28:26 AM,iv,"sales",3289
9/29/2009 9:44:01 AM,ip,"email issues",935
9/29/2009 9:52:50 AM,iv,"dp",529
9/29/2009 9:54:19 AM,iv,"dp",89
9/29/2009 10:10:00 AM,bk,"",941
9/29/2009 10:43:08 AM,iv,"moodling",1988
9/29/2009 10:46:14 AM,iv,"evals",186
9/29/2009 10:58:27 AM,hr,"access media server",733
9/29/2009 11:05:12 AM,re,"rss",405
9/29/2009 11:08:35 AM,iv,"evals",203
9/29/2009 11:24:50 AM,re,"rss",975
9/29/2009 11:29:41 AM,re,"rss",291
9/29/2009 11:43:33 AM,hr,"computer setup issues",832
9/29/2009 11:46:15 AM,iv,"lost folder found",162
9/29/2009 11:55:16 AM,ps,"espn",541
9/29/2009 12:11:48 PM,hr,"more network issues",992
9/29/2009 12:16:36 PM,ps,"espn",288
9/29/2009 1:13:06 PM,bk,"lunch",3390
9/29/2009 1:15:16 PM,em,"",130
9/29/2009 1:26:11 PM,iv,"asst",655
9/29/2009 1:40:41 PM,iv,"asst",870
9/29/2009 1:50:00 PM,up,"evals tweaking",559
9/29/2009 2:05:56 PM,ps,"tmq",956
9/29/2009 2:14:35 PM,up,"php stuff",519
9/29/2009 2:35:51 PM,up,"evals tweaking",1276
9/29/2009 2:48:26 PM,iv,"asst",755
9/29/2009 2:55:39 PM,up,"evals",433
9/29/2009 3:03:12 PM,up,"more evals tweaking (sort worked all along -- bad data, imagine that!",453
9/29/2009 3:24:20 PM,re,"rss",1268
9/29/2009 4:39:04 PM,nw,"forum pres prep",4484

9/30/2009 7:42:30 AM,ar,"",0
9/30/2009 7:48:44 AM,em,"",374
9/30/2009 8:06:15 AM,re,"rss",1051
9/30/2009 8:20:00 AM,ip,"phone make busy message",825
9/30/2009 9:00:26 AM,re,"rss",2426
9/30/2009 9:05:13 AM,up,"zotero issues",287
9/30/2009 9:11:37 AM,hr,"phone make busy",384
9/30/2009 9:21:03 AM,up,"db backup check; bbsis update status check",566
9/30/2009 10:20:58 AM,ps,"CARES",3595
9/30/2009 10:21:35 AM,hc,"helpdesk",37
9/30/2009 10:47:56 AM,hc,"bbsis update check",1581
9/30/2009 11:33:36 AM,nw,"forum prep",2740
9/30/2009 11:48:56 AM,re,"rss",920
9/30/2009 1:19:24 PM,bk,"lunch",5428
9/30/2009 1:20:57 PM,ip,"moodle login",93
9/30/2009 1:44:39 PM,up,"ordering amer stuff",1422
9/30/2009 2:06:59 PM,up,"amer cables",1340
9/30/2009 2:32:35 PM,iv,"various",1536
9/30/2009 3:30:30 PM,iv,"scanning",3475
9/30/2009 4:16:53 PM,re,"rss",2783
9/30/2009 4:37:21 PM,nw,"forum",1228
9/30/2009 4:59:21 PM,nw,"forum",1320

10/1/2009 7:43:06 AM,ar,"",0
10/1/2009 7:44:51 AM,ps,"disrobe",105
10/1/2009 8:04:18 AM,em,"",1167
10/1/2009 8:50:54 AM,iv,"asst",2796
10/1/2009 9:09:19 AM,ip,"room troubles",1105
10/1/2009 9:19:51 AM,re,"rss",632
10/1/2009 9:27:56 AM,tk,"itunes u",485
10/1/2009 9:34:21 AM,ip,"computer assistance",385
10/1/2009 9:50:00 AM,tk,"itunes u",939
10/1/2009 10:20:00 AM,bk,"",1800
10/1/2009 10:26:33 AM,tk,"itunes u",393
10/1/2009 10:29:32 AM,ip,"sales",179
10/1/2009 11:42:05 AM,tk,"itunesu",4353
10/1/2009 11:48:16 AM,tk,"itunes u",371
10/1/2009 11:51:46 AM,it,"unes u",210
10/1/2009 1:19:36 PM,cl,"forum",5270
10/1/2009 1:20:52 PM,tk,"itunesu",76
10/1/2009 2:20:58 PM,mt,"super",3606
10/1/2009 2:50:31 PM,up,"oy oy oy",1773
10/1/2009 4:41:08 PM,mt,"zotero extended session",6637
10/1/2009 5:07:51 PM,re,"rss",1603

10/2/2009 7:58:57 AM,ar,"",0
10/2/2009 7:59:52 AM,iv,"asst",55
10/2/2009 8:19:59 AM,em,"",1207
10/2/2009 8:37:32 AM,re,"rss",1053
10/2/2009 8:45:04 AM,dr,"upal simple feed",452
10/2/2009 9:43:11 AM,up,"drupal aggregation",3487
10/2/2009 9:49:20 AM,ip,"church computer",369
10/2/2009 10:01:40 AM,up,"drupal stuff",740
10/2/2009 10:05:38 AM,iv,"dp",238
10/2/2009 10:10:04 AM,ip,"admiss asst e-mail issues",266
10/2/2009 10:14:27 AM,up,"mission lectureship",263
10/2/2009 10:14:30 AM,ip,"admiss asst email",3
10/2/2009 10:48:07 AM,ip,"admiss asst",2017
10/2/2009 11:32:59 AM,up,"maintenance request issues",2692
10/2/2009 11:42:23 AM,iv,"chapel woes",564
10/2/2009 11:49:15 AM,up,"maintenance system",412
10/2/2009 11:56:08 AM,up,"more mrs stuff",413
10/2/2009 12:17:46 PM,re,"rss",1298
10/2/2009 1:17:58 PM,ar,"",3612
10/2/2009 1:22:34 PM,up,"drupal",276
10/2/2009 2:24:06 PM,nw,"forum prep",3692
10/2/2009 2:38:15 PM,ip,"outlook at home",849
10/2/2009 2:42:31 PM,bk,"p",256
10/2/2009 2:50:30 PM,nw,"tech forum",479
10/2/2009 4:37:16 PM,nw,"forum pres",6406
10/2/2009 5:00:30 PM,nw,"forum pres",1394

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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