Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 18 November, 2009

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 18 November, 2009

5 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			45h 32m 21s
Time Working:			40h 27m 4s
	Planned:			9h 16m 11s
		Projects/Tasks:			2h 19m 53s
		Meetings:			0h 0m 0s
		Reading/Research:			4h 5m 34s
		Communication:			2h 12m 37s
		House cleaning:			0h 38m 7s
	Unplanned:			30h 1m 20s
		Distraction:			0h 0m 0s
		Interruption:			3h 23m 23s
		Projects/Tasks:			26h 37m 57s
	Other Work:			1h 9m 33s
		Non-work Work:			0h 0m 0s
		Community Life:			1h 9m 33s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			5h 5m 17s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			9h 6m 28s
Average Daily Working Time:			8h 5m 24s


Time Working:			88.83%
	Planned:			22.92%
		Projects/Tasks:			25.15%
		Meetings:			0.00%
		Reading/Research:			44.15%
		Communication:			23.84%
		House cleaning:			6.85%
	Unplanned:			74.22%
		Distraction:			0.00%
		Interruption:			11.29%
		Projects/Tasks:			88.71%
	Other Work:			2.87%
		Non-work Work:			0.00%
		Community Life:			100.00%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			11.17%

*** Raw Data ***

11/16/2009 7:50:00 AM,ar,"",0
11/16/2009 7:58:32 AM,em,"",512
11/16/2009 8:43:04 AM,re,"rss",2672
11/16/2009 8:44:55 AM,em,"",111
11/16/2009 8:46:52 AM,hc,"backup",117
11/16/2009 9:51:59 AM,hr,"recipes and zotero -- less than stellar",3907
11/16/2009 11:18:20 AM,up,"phone plan comparison",5181
11/16/2009 11:26:30 AM,ps,"espn",490
11/16/2009 11:27:40 AM,em,"",70
11/16/2009 11:42:28 AM,re,"ocr software",888
11/16/2009 11:53:25 AM,re,"ocr",657
11/16/2009 11:59:10 AM,hr,"highlight addresses in e-mail",345
11/16/2009 12:16:56 PM,em,"",1066
11/16/2009 1:13:23 PM,bk,"lunch",3387
11/16/2009 2:49:55 PM,up,"check wiring etc",5792
11/16/2009 3:09:34 PM,re,"",1179
11/16/2009 4:10:00 PM,up,"recipe importing",3626
11/16/2009 4:20:00 PM,iv,"Verizon",600
11/16/2009 4:31:55 PM,hr,"abd",715
11/16/2009 4:33:40 PM,iv,"moodle gradebook",105
11/16/2009 4:50:51 PM,em,"",1031
11/16/2009 5:02:26 PM,re,"rss",695

11/17/2009 8:04:52 AM,ar,"",0
11/17/2009 8:06:24 AM,em,"",92
11/17/2009 8:20:00 AM,hr,"virus",816
11/17/2009 8:27:52 AM,iv,"dp",472
11/17/2009 8:45:12 AM,re,"rss",1040
11/17/2009 10:34:07 AM,hr,"virus and recipes",6535
11/17/2009 11:03:18 AM,ph,"moodlerooms",1751
11/17/2009 11:06:23 AM,re,"rss",185
11/17/2009 11:15:55 AM,ip,"chase",572
11/17/2009 11:33:44 AM,iv,"another db",1069
11/17/2009 11:40:59 AM,ps,"library book",435
11/17/2009 12:08:41 PM,up,"webstats",1662
11/17/2009 12:09:55 PM,ip,"outlook offline",74
11/17/2009 12:22:21 PM,up,"webstats and security",746
11/17/2009 12:37:47 PM,ps,"espn",926
11/17/2009 1:34:43 PM,ps,"lunch and pong",3416
11/17/2009 1:57:29 PM,hr,"various things",1366
11/17/2009 2:11:11 PM,hr,"double spacing",822
11/17/2009 2:24:17 PM,tk,"",786
11/17/2009 2:45:44 PM,hc,"credit card",1287
11/17/2009 3:00:39 PM,up,"analytics",895
11/17/2009 3:11:08 PM,up,"analytics",629
11/17/2009 4:18:09 PM,up,"wadsworth",4021
11/17/2009 5:13:28 PM,up,"zotero tutoring for kitchen use",3319

11/18/2009 8:02:38 AM,ar,"",0
11/18/2009 8:12:53 AM,em,"",615
11/18/2009 8:25:00 AM,re,"rss",727
11/18/2009 9:25:00 AM,hr,"virus",3600
11/18/2009 10:10:07 AM,ps,"CARES",2707
11/18/2009 10:29:17 AM,hr,"virus scanning sturff",1150
11/18/2009 12:09:14 PM,hr,"one of those days ...",5997
11/18/2009 12:46:17 PM,bk,"lunch",2223
11/18/2009 12:51:02 PM,ps,"ff",285
11/18/2009 12:56:59 PM,re,"rss",357
11/18/2009 1:10:08 PM,tk,"asst orient",789
11/18/2009 1:34:20 PM,tk,"sec certificate",1452
11/18/2009 1:54:00 PM,tk,"server certificates",1180
11/18/2009 2:13:30 PM,ip,"dying computer",1170
11/18/2009 3:27:25 PM,up,"cabling and virus",4435
11/18/2009 3:38:25 PM,up,"certificate stuff",660
11/18/2009 3:45:24 PM,re,"rss",419
11/18/2009 3:48:11 PM,ip,"onecomm",167
11/18/2009 3:57:02 PM,re,"rss",531
11/18/2009 4:55:20 PM,hr,"virus troubles",3498
11/18/2009 5:04:41 PM,re,"rss",561

11/19/2009 6:04:42 AM,ar,"",0
11/19/2009 6:09:43 AM,ps,"prep",301
11/19/2009 11:19:54 AM,up,"wiring stuff",18611
11/19/2009 11:26:57 AM,em,"",423
11/19/2009 11:32:08 AM,iv,"how to burn a CD",311
11/19/2009 11:32:58 AM,tk,"script",50
11/19/2009 11:54:20 AM,iv,"forum prep",1282
11/19/2009 1:03:53 PM,cl,"forum",4173
11/19/2009 1:21:28 PM,em,"",1055
11/19/2009 1:36:33 PM,tk,"audio outfitting",905
11/19/2009 1:36:52 PM,iv,"notebook",19
11/19/2009 1:41:34 PM,up,"audio prep",282
11/19/2009 1:46:58 PM,re,"report",324
11/19/2009 4:07:47 PM,up,"various tasks, meetings, computers, communication, etc.",8449
11/19/2009 4:13:39 PM,re,"rss",352
11/19/2009 4:36:04 PM,up,"order forms",1345
11/19/2009 4:44:33 PM,up,"more virus stuff",509

11/20/2009 7:35:30 AM,ar,"",0
11/20/2009 9:25:15 AM,hr,"virus cleanup",6585
11/20/2009 10:15:55 AM,iv,"rushabout",3040
11/20/2009 10:42:11 AM,re,"rss",1576
11/20/2009 11:30:11 AM,tk,"acct deletion script",2880
11/20/2009 11:43:54 AM,iv,"",823
11/20/2009 12:00:17 PM,re,"rss",983
11/20/2009 12:15:00 PM,hc,"post office",883
11/20/2009 1:08:22 PM,bk,"lunch",3202
11/20/2009 1:28:53 PM,em,"",1231
11/20/2009 1:35:12 PM,hr,"email troubles",379
11/20/2009 1:48:08 PM,re,"rss",776
11/20/2009 1:50:48 PM,ip,"document strangeness",160
11/20/2009 2:04:20 PM,re,"rss",812
11/20/2009 2:08:29 PM,bk,"water",249
11/20/2009 2:18:39 PM,iv,"browser cookies issue",610
11/20/2009 2:30:15 PM,ps,"espn",696
11/20/2009 2:36:06 PM,tk,"web server certificate",351
11/20/2009 3:04:55 PM,iv,"font installation",1729

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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