Today has been an unusual day. I didn’t have any meetings. I didn’t have any conference calls. I didn’t have anywhere that I was required to be. Very unlike the rest of the week. First, let’s recap the events leading upto today.
Monday:
– 6am work out. must start the week out properly
– 7:45 in office for meeting with team
– 8:30 meetings start to plan out how to accomplish tasks for the week
– 11:30 skip out of office and head to customer site
– 1:00 meeting at customer site, lasts until 2:30
– 2:30 follow up to meeting, write follow up emails, finish some documentation, do some research
– 4:30 drive home to make soccer practice for the kids
– 5:30 soccer practice
– 7pm dinner
– 7:30 finish up project on the planet Mercury (3rd grade project)
– 8:30 start hearding kids to bed
– 9:30 finished with bedtime, get to read paper, check on email again, watch last quarter of Monday Night Football
Tuesday
– 6:00 work out. wow, two days back to back
– 8:30 doctors appointment
– 10:30 did it really take two hours at the doctor? finished reading book
– 11:30 customer meeting/event
– 1:30 event rained out
– 2:30 research and training, prep demo system
– 6pm dinner, did we really have dinner two nights in a row? wow.
– 7pm play games, watch really bad kids tv show
– 8:30 start hearding kids to bed
– 9:30 finish with bedtime, check on email again, watch tv show
– 10:45 read boring technical manuals instead of sleeping pill
Weds
– 7:30 breakfast with the family, unusual event. I’m usually gone by this time
– 8:00 check email, follow up on correspondance
– 9:00 customer meeting
– 11:30 back in office, pick up salad at desk and read email while working
– 1pm internal meetings to plan customer architecture presentation
– 4:30 – drive home, tired from all day meetings
– 6pm – dinner with kids, wife playing soccer
– 7pm – cub scouts at our house
– 9pm – finished cleaning up, everyone to bed
– 10pm – check email, read until time to go to bed
Thurs
– breakfast with the family, two days in a row. I will get spoiled if this keeps up.
– nothing planned. could go to golf tournament, looks like rain. tough to justify “skipping out on work” for tournament.
– long range planning
– research
– prep for presentations next week
– prep for presentations tomorrow
– get up to date on expenses, plan training
– training, playing with demo systems.
Tomorrow
– work out in morning
– paperwork in office
– customer meeting and presentation
– conference call to set next weeks schedule.
total time at customer sites: 11 hours
number of customers visited in person: 7
number of customers contacted via phone and email: 17
number of phone calls with customers: 13
number of internal phone calls: 15
number of emails with customers: 27
number of internal emails: 8
time spent on blogging: 1 hour
time spent on fantasy football: 1 1/2 hours + 5 minutes trash talking
Days like today are rare. I wanted to record what I did in a week so that I could look back and see if this was typical, unusual, productive, or waste of time.
pat