Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 14 October, 2009

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 14 October, 2009

5 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			46h 21m 0s
Time Working:			39h 3m 6s
	Planned:			16h 43m 58s
		Projects/Tasks:			7h 46m 28s
		Meetings:			0h 0m 0s
		Reading/Research:			4h 19m 46s
		Communication:			3h 55m 24s
		House cleaning:			0h 42m 20s
	Unplanned:			18h 38m 0s
		Distraction:			0h 0m 0s
		Interruption:			4h 37m 6s
		Projects/Tasks:			14h 0m 54s
	Other Work:			3h 41m 8s
		Non-work Work:			0h 0m 0s
		Community Life:			3h 41m 8s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			7h 17m 54s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			9h 16m 12s
Average Daily Working Time:			7h 48m 37s


Time Working:			84.25%
	Planned:			42.85%
		Projects/Tasks:			46.46%
		Meetings:			0.00%
		Reading/Research:			25.87%
		Communication:			23.45%
		House cleaning:			4.22%
	Unplanned:			47.71%
		Distraction:			0.00%
		Interruption:			24.79%
		Projects/Tasks:			75.21%
	Other Work:			9.44%
		Non-work Work:			0.00%
		Community Life:			100.00%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			15.75%

*** Raw Data ***

10/12/2009 7:56:39 AM,ar,"",0
10/12/2009 7:57:46 AM,em,"",67
10/12/2009 8:15:26 AM,ip,"power adapter",1060
10/12/2009 8:56:11 AM,re,"rss",2445
10/12/2009 9:05:19 AM,hc,"bulletin board",548
10/12/2009 9:16:42 AM,re,"rss",683
10/12/2009 9:40:50 AM,re,"rss",1448
10/12/2009 9:44:00 AM,em,"",190
10/12/2009 9:46:01 AM,iv,"theo ctr guest",121
10/12/2009 10:02:06 AM,em,"",965
10/12/2009 10:30:29 AM,bk,"",1703
10/12/2009 10:57:51 AM,hr,"overdues to student accts",1642
10/12/2009 11:14:13 AM,iv,"computer consult",982
10/12/2009 11:18:04 AM,iv,"compute rconsult",231
10/12/2009 11:54:18 AM,hr,"overdues",2174
10/12/2009 12:03:26 PM,hr,"stupid e-mail overdue troubles",548
10/12/2009 12:17:30 PM,hr,"print quality",844
10/12/2009 1:17:34 PM,bk,"lunch",3604
10/12/2009 1:39:33 PM,re,"rss",1319
10/12/2009 2:54:57 PM,hr,"various",4524
10/12/2009 2:56:05 PM,em,"",68
10/12/2009 3:12:16 PM,up,"e-mail troubles aleph notices",971
10/12/2009 3:16:26 PM,iv,"computer issue",250
10/12/2009 3:19:29 PM,ip,"",183
10/12/2009 3:40:02 PM,hr,"printer",1233
10/12/2009 4:01:10 PM,re,"rss",1268
10/12/2009 4:04:09 PM,hr,"dead hard drive",179
10/12/2009 4:24:47 PM,tk,"acct script",1238
10/12/2009 4:35:54 PM,iv,"colleague",667
10/12/2009 4:49:59 PM,tk,"acct deletion stuff",845

10/13/2009 7:55:31 AM,ar,"",0
10/13/2009 8:05:28 AM,em,"",597
10/13/2009 8:24:59 AM,iv,"",1171
10/13/2009 8:26:03 AM,re,"rss",64
10/13/2009 8:38:25 AM,re,"rss",742
10/13/2009 8:48:04 AM,vi,"email at home",579
10/13/2009 8:56:13 AM,ip,"sideways monitor",489
10/13/2009 9:41:03 AM,hr,"various (including some dvd setup stuff last-minute)",2690
10/13/2009 9:46:14 AM,iv,"",311
10/13/2009 10:38:26 AM,cl,"guest visit",3132
10/13/2009 10:54:40 AM,re,"rss",974
10/13/2009 11:28:32 AM,hr,"overdue notices",2032
10/13/2009 11:37:36 AM,tk,"overdues",544
10/13/2009 12:23:57 PM,cl,"theol ctr guest",2781
10/13/2009 12:38:52 PM,ps,"tmq",895
10/13/2009 1:12:49 PM,bk,"lunch",2037
10/13/2009 1:31:06 PM,re,"mag",1097
10/13/2009 1:49:50 PM,iv,"trouble in river city",1124
10/13/2009 2:03:49 PM,iv,"various",839
10/13/2009 2:45:48 PM,hr,"dead external drive",2519
10/13/2009 2:53:23 PM,iv,"asst",455
10/13/2009 2:58:33 PM,em,"",310
10/13/2009 3:04:12 PM,tk,"itunes u updating",339
10/13/2009 3:11:09 PM,tk,"itunes u updating",417
10/13/2009 3:22:54 PM,up,"prep for bbsis update",705
10/13/2009 3:36:29 PM,up,"shopping",815
10/13/2009 4:19:00 PM,up,"running around delivering televisions",2551
10/13/2009 4:27:55 PM,re,"rss",535
10/13/2009 4:41:29 PM,re,"rss",814
10/13/2009 4:47:03 PM,iv,"",334
10/13/2009 5:10:30 PM,ps,"library card",1407
10/13/2009 5:14:05 PM,em,"",215

10/14/2009 7:54:37 AM,AR,"",0
10/14/2009 8:06:11 AM,em,"",694
10/14/2009 8:28:42 AM,re,"rss",1351
10/14/2009 8:45:26 AM,vi,"",1004
10/14/2009 8:49:29 AM,re,"rss",243
10/14/2009 8:55:10 AM,bk,"d",341
10/14/2009 9:09:13 AM,em,"",843
10/14/2009 10:19:48 AM,ps,"CARES",4235
10/14/2009 10:22:19 AM,re,"rss",151
10/14/2009 10:35:16 AM,vi,"",777
10/14/2009 10:39:43 AM,re,"spiceworks",267
10/14/2009 11:48:09 AM,tk,"acct script work",4106
10/14/2009 11:51:46 AM,re,"rss",217
10/14/2009 1:22:57 PM,bk,"lunch",5471
10/14/2009 1:34:35 PM,vi,"library",698
10/14/2009 2:04:29 PM,up,"mail notices ",1794
10/14/2009 2:54:33 PM,iv,"",3004
10/14/2009 3:26:15 PM,up,"overdue NDRs",1902
10/14/2009 3:32:12 PM,up,"NDRs",357
10/14/2009 3:57:12 PM,up,"NDR issues",1500
10/14/2009 3:58:36 PM,ip,"spouse",84
10/14/2009 4:47:27 PM,up,"NDRs on overdue notices - resolved",2931
10/14/2009 4:50:28 PM,up,"dead inet?",181
10/14/2009 5:02:51 PM,up,"dead internet ... partially back",743

10/15/2009 8:01:21 AM,ar,"",0
10/15/2009 8:06:27 AM,em,"",306
10/15/2009 10:01:02 AM,tk,"update bbsis",6875
10/15/2009 10:23:52 AM,tk,"bbsis updating",1370
10/15/2009 10:46:46 AM,tk,"update bbsis",1374
10/15/2009 10:53:36 AM,tk,"bbsis update",410
10/15/2009 11:15:17 AM,up,"report on aleph e-mail delivery issues",1301
10/15/2009 11:29:25 AM,ph,"",848
10/15/2009 1:32:00 PM,cl,"forum",7355
10/15/2009 1:41:41 PM,em,"",581
10/15/2009 2:00:00 PM,ip,"scanning",1099
10/15/2009 2:22:00 PM,up,"set up change of venue",1320
10/15/2009 2:31:50 PM,tk,"faweb",590
10/15/2009 2:48:58 PM,tk,"bbsis migration",1028
10/15/2009 3:43:18 PM,up,"more setup and updating and interruptions and other things",3260
10/15/2009 3:49:49 PM,em,"",391
10/15/2009 3:57:59 PM,iv,"faweb",490
10/15/2009 4:25:25 PM,ps,"rss",1646
10/15/2009 4:29:30 PM,tk,"bbsis update",245
10/15/2009 4:43:30 PM,tk,"more updating for bbsis",840
10/15/2009 4:45:02 PM,ps,"email",92
10/15/2009 4:54:37 PM,iv,"lounge setup for speaker",575
10/15/2009 5:18:31 PM,tk,"bbsis update completed ... i hope",1434
10/15/2009 5:24:44 PM,ps,"",373
10/15/2009 5:27:44 PM,tk,"disk salvage",180

10/16/2009 7:29:00 AM,ar,"",0
10/16/2009 7:38:47 AM,hc,"bootup",587
10/16/2009 8:02:12 AM,hc,"",1405
10/16/2009 8:15:34 AM,up,"various little things waiting for people",802
10/16/2009 8:32:04 AM,up,"meeting recording fees discussion",990
10/16/2009 8:49:08 AM,tk,"bbsis migration cleanup",1024
10/16/2009 9:35:54 AM,tk,"various",2806
10/16/2009 10:00:00 AM,vi,"",1446
10/16/2009 10:25:07 AM,bk,"",1507
10/16/2009 10:50:11 AM,re,"rss",1504
10/16/2009 11:11:39 AM,up,"video editing stuff",1288
10/16/2009 11:33:53 AM,vi,"",1334
10/16/2009 12:04:37 PM,up,"class recording",1844
10/16/2009 12:54:00 PM,bk,"lunch",2963
10/16/2009 1:27:48 PM,up,"shopping",2028
10/16/2009 2:00:45 PM,up,"shopping",1977
10/16/2009 2:37:36 PM,vi,"",2211
10/16/2009 3:03:54 PM,tk,"still working on that stupid class recording",1578
10/16/2009 3:18:46 PM,iv,"table tennis",892
10/16/2009 3:35:58 PM,up,"class lecture upload",1032
10/16/2009 3:42:26 PM,up,"data salvage",388
10/16/2009 3:55:22 PM,ip,"sales",776
10/16/2009 4:07:11 PM,iv,"course prep",709
10/16/2009 4:21:24 PM,hr,"permissions problem",853
10/16/2009 4:33:49 PM,tk,"check bbsis status",745
10/16/2009 4:42:45 PM,up,"recorded lectures",536
10/16/2009 4:55:45 PM,ip,"spouse",780
10/16/2009 5:03:29 PM,re,"rss",464

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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