Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 10 November, 2010

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 10 November, 2010

5 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			44h 17m 40s
Time Working:			36h 30m 28s
	Planned:			14h 24m 38s
		Projects/Tasks:			5h 17m 26s
		Meetings:			0h 0m 0s
		Reading/Research:			4h 29m 48s
		Communication:			2h 37m 46s
		House cleaning:			1h 59m 38s
	Unplanned:			19h 43m 49s
		Distraction:			0h 0m 0s
		Interruption:			5h 37m 10s
		Projects/Tasks:			14h 6m 39s
	Other Work:			2h 22m 1s
		Non-work Work:			1h 46m 54s
		Community Life:			0h 35m 7s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			7h 47m 12s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			8h 51m 32s
Average Daily Working Time:			7h 18m 5s


Time Working:			82.42%
	Planned:			39.47%
		Projects/Tasks:			36.71%
		Meetings:			0.00%
		Reading/Research:			31.20%
		Communication:			18.25%
		House cleaning:			13.84%
	Unplanned:			54.04%
		Distraction:			0.00%
		Interruption:			28.48%
		Projects/Tasks:			71.52%
	Other Work:			6.48%
		Non-work Work:			75.27%
		Community Life:			24.73%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			17.58%

*** Raw Data ***

11/8/2010 8:05:00 AM,ar,"",0
11/8/2010 8:19:54 AM,vi,"",894
11/8/2010 8:58:53 AM,em,"",2339
11/8/2010 9:36:52 AM,iv,"",2279
11/8/2010 9:54:07 AM,hc,"",1035
11/8/2010 9:57:57 AM,nw,"",230
11/8/2010 10:33:04 AM,cl,"monday",2107
11/8/2010 10:48:26 AM,iv,"",922
11/8/2010 11:07:47 AM,nw,"email",1161
11/8/2010 11:20:46 AM,iv,"",779
11/8/2010 12:13:04 PM,re,"",3138
11/8/2010 12:50:00 PM,bk,"lunch",2216
11/8/2010 1:37:49 PM,up,"skype",2869
11/8/2010 2:13:16 PM,hc,"",2127
11/8/2010 3:02:34 PM,up,"",2958
11/8/2010 3:34:18 PM,ps,"tt",1904
11/8/2010 3:56:45 PM,up,"",1347
11/8/2010 4:03:52 PM,up,"",427
11/8/2010 4:53:23 PM,iv,"",2971
11/8/2010 5:01:05 PM,tk,"",462

11/9/2010 8:08:11 AM,ar,"",0
11/9/2010 8:09:18 AM,hc,"",67
11/9/2010 8:32:31 AM,re,"",1393
11/9/2010 9:18:40 AM,re,"rss",2769
11/9/2010 10:16:48 AM,tk,"google apps",3488
11/9/2010 11:15:59 AM,tk,"",3551
11/9/2010 11:42:46 AM,em,"",1607
11/9/2010 12:29:53 PM,iv,"",2827
11/9/2010 1:10:00 PM,bk,"lunch",2407
11/9/2010 1:13:31 PM,ip,"",211
11/9/2010 1:22:13 PM,hc,"",522
11/9/2010 1:22:51 PM,iv,"",38
11/9/2010 1:27:02 PM,iv,"",251
11/9/2010 3:07:30 PM,iv,"brandon",6028
11/9/2010 4:04:11 PM,tk,"",3401
11/9/2010 4:21:21 PM,tk,"",1030
11/9/2010 4:47:02 PM,tk,"",1541
11/9/2010 4:50:43 PM,ps,"",221
11/9/2010 4:58:23 PM,ip,"",460

11/10/2010 8:03:00 AM,ar,"",0
11/10/2010 8:17:43 AM,up,"spyware",883
11/10/2010 8:47:35 AM,em,"",1792
11/10/2010 9:24:48 AM,up,"",2233
11/10/2010 10:20:00 AM,ps,"CARES",3312
11/10/2010 10:36:22 AM,up,"",982
11/10/2010 11:15:24 AM,re,"rss",2342
11/10/2010 11:54:59 AM,em,"",2375
11/10/2010 12:05:09 PM,re,"",610
11/10/2010 1:30:17 PM,bk,"lunch",5108
11/10/2010 1:37:56 PM,em,"",459
11/10/2010 2:20:24 PM,re,"rss",2548
11/10/2010 3:53:17 PM,tk,"",5573
11/10/2010 4:43:50 PM,up,"patp video",3033

11/11/2010 8:09:33 AM,ar,"",0
11/11/2010 8:14:48 AM,up,"inauguration video",315
11/11/2010 8:19:26 AM,up,"",278
11/11/2010 11:53:50 AM,ps,"class",12864
11/11/2010 11:54:54 AM,up,"video import",64
11/11/2010 1:18:37 PM,nw,"forum",5023
11/11/2010 3:41:40 PM,up,"video",8583
11/11/2010 5:01:44 PM,up,"",4804

11/12/2010 8:01:24 AM,ar,"",0
11/12/2010 8:57:52 AM,re,"rss",3388
11/12/2010 9:10:38 AM,up,"",766
11/12/2010 10:08:22 AM,ip,"",3464
11/12/2010 11:05:29 AM,hc,"",3427
11/12/2010 3:10:35 PM,up,"backup server crash",14706
11/12/2010 3:40:04 PM,up,"dead server",1769
11/12/2010 3:46:52 PM,hr,"",408
11/12/2010 3:49:12 PM,up,"mercymercy",140
11/12/2010 4:59:46 PM,up,"",4234

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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