Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 4 November, 2009

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 4 November, 2009

5 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			44h 38m 0s
Time Working:			38h 12m 47s
	Planned:			17h 24m 30s
		Projects/Tasks:			4h 38m 14s
		Meetings:			3h 22m 37s
		Reading/Research:			5h 20m 42s
		Communication:			3h 12m 47s
		House cleaning:			0h 50m 10s
	Unplanned:			18h 52m 59s
		Distraction:			0h 0m 0s
		Interruption:			5h 12m 24s
		Projects/Tasks:			13h 40m 35s
	Other Work:			1h 55m 18s
		Non-work Work:			0h 0m 0s
		Community Life:			1h 55m 18s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			6h 25m 13s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			8h 55m 36s
Average Daily Working Time:			7h 38m 33s


Time Working:			85.62%
	Planned:			45.56%
		Projects/Tasks:			26.64%
		Meetings:			19.40%
		Reading/Research:			30.70%
		Communication:			18.46%
		House cleaning:			4.80%
	Unplanned:			49.42%
		Distraction:			0.00%
		Interruption:			27.57%
		Projects/Tasks:			72.43%
	Other Work:			5.03%
		Non-work Work:			0.00%
		Community Life:			100.00%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			14.38%

*** Raw Data ***

11/2/2009 7:52:42 AM,ar,"",0
11/2/2009 7:59:00 AM,em,"",378
11/2/2009 8:02:46 AM,hc,"dst repair",226
11/2/2009 8:21:42 AM,re,"rss",1136
11/2/2009 8:45:32 AM,iv,"fmrasst",1430
11/2/2009 9:13:04 AM,tk,"lambright projector hanging",1652
11/2/2009 10:00:00 AM,hr,"fix audio",2816
11/2/2009 10:22:14 AM,bk,"monday",1334
11/2/2009 10:28:45 AM,re,"rss",391
11/2/2009 10:38:10 AM,hc,"paycheck time",565
11/2/2009 10:41:16 AM,re,"rss",186
11/2/2009 10:45:06 AM,iv,"fmr asst",230
11/2/2009 10:55:22 AM,re,"rss",616
11/2/2009 11:07:01 AM,hr,"rescued documents",699
11/2/2009 11:19:26 AM,re,"rss",745
11/2/2009 12:00:35 PM,up,"survey reprogramming",2469
11/2/2009 12:14:39 PM,ps,"espn",844
11/2/2009 12:57:01 PM,bk,"lunch",2542
11/2/2009 1:35:42 PM,up,"projector in lambright",2321
11/2/2009 1:44:47 PM,up,"us signal update phone number",545
11/2/2009 2:10:55 PM,hr,"kyocera printer",1568
11/2/2009 2:20:16 PM,cl,"fountain repair",561
11/2/2009 2:24:39 PM,hc,"mail call",263
11/2/2009 2:33:59 PM,tk,"new power strip",560
11/2/2009 2:43:11 PM,up,"itunes u",552
11/2/2009 2:50:35 PM,em,"",444
11/2/2009 3:32:53 PM,tk,"acct deletion script tweaking",2538
11/2/2009 3:46:12 PM,hr,"variuos",799
11/2/2009 3:50:18 PM,re,"rss",246
11/2/2009 4:02:31 PM,hc,"",733
11/2/2009 4:14:18 PM,tk,"acct delete script",707
11/2/2009 4:39:22 PM,ip,"export and report",1504
11/2/2009 4:52:51 PM,ip,"projection in Lambright",809
11/2/2009 5:00:20 PM,ip,"lambright projection",449
11/2/2009 5:03:15 PM,em,"",175

11/3/2009 7:56:18 AM,ar,"",0
11/3/2009 8:32:45 AM,em,"",2187
11/3/2009 8:44:00 AM,re,"rss",675
11/3/2009 8:48:18 AM,ip,"calendar access",258
11/3/2009 8:59:56 AM,re,"rss",698
11/3/2009 9:00:57 AM,hr,"myambs",61
11/3/2009 9:13:38 AM,re,"rss",761
11/3/2009 9:16:44 AM,ip,"lam projection",186
11/3/2009 9:27:59 AM,re,"rss",675
11/3/2009 9:55:48 AM,hr,"slow login exploration",1669
11/3/2009 10:21:08 AM,up,"shopping",1520
11/3/2009 10:26:33 AM,iv,"printing",325
11/3/2009 10:32:39 AM,up,"shopping",366
11/3/2009 10:33:25 AM,ip,"moodle",46
11/3/2009 10:35:50 AM,hr,"various",145
11/3/2009 10:36:23 AM,ip,"outlook report",33
11/3/2009 11:02:18 AM,re,"wave",1555
11/3/2009 11:19:54 AM,hc,"mailcall",1056
11/3/2009 11:31:44 AM,em,"",710
11/3/2009 11:35:56 AM,iv,"speakers",252
11/3/2009 11:44:24 AM,vi,"",508
11/3/2009 11:50:59 AM,re,"rss",395
11/3/2009 11:51:46 AM,ip,"moodle-less panic",47
11/3/2009 11:54:41 AM,re,"rss",175
11/3/2009 12:48:50 PM,bk,"lunch",3249
11/3/2009 12:52:22 PM,ps,"espn",212
11/3/2009 1:10:58 PM,hr,"myambs instruction manual",1116
11/3/2009 1:11:05 PM,iv,"distance ed thingie",7
11/3/2009 1:16:27 PM,hr,"myambs",322
11/3/2009 1:18:40 PM,iv,"asst",133
11/3/2009 1:53:06 PM,hr,"computer repair call",2066
11/3/2009 1:58:02 PM,re,"rss",296
11/3/2009 2:11:23 PM,bk,"d",801
11/3/2009 2:39:37 PM,hr,"cloning",1694
11/3/2009 2:52:12 PM,tk,"acct del scripting",755
11/3/2009 3:07:46 PM,iv,"remote assistance",934
11/3/2009 3:11:45 PM,up,"cloning",239
11/3/2009 3:33:34 PM,ip,"survey",1309
11/3/2009 3:50:08 PM,hr,"em",994
11/3/2009 3:52:37 PM,iv,"fmrasst",149
11/3/2009 3:59:59 PM,re,"moodle",442
11/3/2009 4:06:08 PM,re,"moodle",369
11/3/2009 4:09:00 PM,hr,"zoom",172
11/3/2009 4:11:53 PM,bk,"",173
11/3/2009 4:16:47 PM,tk,"acct routine",294
11/3/2009 4:21:52 PM,ps,"rss",305
11/3/2009 4:24:05 PM,ip,"java",133
11/3/2009 4:44:44 PM,ps,"tmq",1239
11/3/2009 4:56:39 PM,tk,"account mgmt routine",715
11/3/2009 5:07:15 PM,ps,"rss",636

11/4/2009 7:40:00 AM,ar,"",0
11/4/2009 8:00:50 AM,em,"",1250
11/4/2009 8:13:29 AM,em,"",759
11/4/2009 8:27:54 AM,tk,"course planning time",865
11/4/2009 8:35:57 AM,ps,"phenom",483
11/4/2009 8:48:43 AM,hr,"internet down follow up",766
11/4/2009 9:08:54 AM,ip,"scanning assignment",1211
11/4/2009 10:05:00 AM,ps,"CARES",3366
11/4/2009 10:36:03 AM,cl,"tgiving break",1863
11/4/2009 10:41:55 AM,em,"",352
11/4/2009 11:13:32 AM,mt,"monthly",1897
11/4/2009 11:26:24 AM,hr,"warranty return",772
11/4/2009 11:32:00 AM,re,"rss",336
11/4/2009 11:35:52 AM,ip,"lam outfitting",232
11/4/2009 11:40:48 AM,iv,"asst",296
11/4/2009 11:59:31 AM,re,"rss",1123
11/4/2009 12:15:16 PM,re,"rss and some statistics checking",945
11/4/2009 12:54:05 PM,bk,"lunch",2329
11/4/2009 12:55:36 PM,ps,"fb",91
11/4/2009 1:15:55 PM,re,"rss",1219
11/4/2009 1:24:05 PM,ip,"satisfaction survey",490
11/4/2009 1:59:35 PM,tk,"acct deleting routine (messages not sending ... probably formatting)",2130
11/4/2009 4:50:35 PM,mt,"faweb",10260
11/4/2009 4:54:22 PM,em,"",227
11/4/2009 4:56:38 PM,em,"",136
11/4/2009 5:01:00 PM,em,"",262
11/4/2009 5:10:06 PM,re,"rss",546

11/5/2009 7:45:59 AM,ar,"",0
11/5/2009 7:53:47 AM,iv,"asst",468
11/5/2009 8:51:55 AM,hr,"setup for clc event",3488
11/5/2009 8:54:42 AM,hc,"boot up",167
11/5/2009 9:20:32 AM,re,"rss",1550
11/5/2009 9:34:04 AM,tk,"",812
11/5/2009 10:14:34 AM,iv,"email troubles",2430
11/5/2009 10:33:19 AM,iv,"",1125
11/5/2009 11:21:06 AM,hr,"various",2867
11/5/2009 11:25:58 AM,ip,"spouse",292
11/5/2009 11:33:16 AM,tk,"projector lambright stuf",438
11/5/2009 11:41:34 AM,hr,"",498
11/5/2009 11:51:39 AM,ip,"room scheduling",605
11/5/2009 11:58:01 AM,hr,"calendar",382
11/5/2009 1:12:55 PM,cl,"forum",4494
11/5/2009 1:16:42 PM,iv,"notebook shutdown",227
11/5/2009 1:26:00 PM,em,"",558
11/5/2009 2:00:56 PM,vi,"",2096
11/5/2009 2:08:39 PM,hr,"webstats",463
11/5/2009 2:18:23 PM,ip,"schweitzer",584
11/5/2009 2:19:43 PM,ip,"calendaring",80
11/5/2009 2:33:18 PM,ip,"netclassroom",815
11/5/2009 2:35:21 PM,iv,"surveyizmo",123
11/5/2009 2:41:42 PM,up,"webstats",381
11/5/2009 2:52:00 PM,tk,"vocabulary and wireless",618
11/5/2009 3:02:14 PM,tk,"blackbaud",614
11/5/2009 3:04:16 PM,iv,"various",122
11/5/2009 3:18:27 PM,tk,"seek cat6",851
11/5/2009 3:30:59 PM,re,"rss",752
11/5/2009 3:42:07 PM,re,"rss",668
11/5/2009 3:57:18 PM,tk,"spending approval",911
11/5/2009 4:09:07 PM,ps,"",709
11/5/2009 4:19:50 PM,up,"analytics investigation",643
11/5/2009 4:25:37 PM,tk,"log file searching (cursory)",347

11/6/2009 7:58:10 AM,ar,"",0
11/6/2009 8:00:33 AM,em,"",143
11/6/2009 8:23:35 AM,em,"",1382
11/6/2009 9:25:00 AM,hr,"",3685
11/6/2009 10:45:00 AM,ps,"phenom",4800
11/6/2009 1:31:41 PM,up,"clc webinar",10001
11/6/2009 1:41:15 PM,ip,"printing something",574
11/6/2009 1:57:53 PM,tk,"computer setup",998
11/6/2009 2:09:47 PM,tk,"lambright outfitting",714
11/6/2009 2:23:06 PM,hr,"faweb",799
11/6/2009 2:26:01 PM,tk,"evals",175
11/6/2009 3:05:18 PM,hr,"various",2357
11/6/2009 3:19:14 PM,ip,"",836
11/6/2009 4:04:56 PM,re,"",2742

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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