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Another night unable to sleep. Joy.

C. and I decided pretty much yesterday that it's time to go to San Francisco. I got email from my ex S. in Berkeley saying that his birthday party is going to be Sept. 16 and 17, so a bit of poking around on cheaptickets.com found $330 r/t tickets with less than three weeks advance purchase. Woohoo, we're off on a vacation! We're spending just about a week out there, the 14th through the 20th. It's weird, it must be time for me to finally get to spend time with everybody I haven't really seen in a long time. Haven't seen S. in a couple of years, neither of us having much call to be where the other one is located. I may also see my other ex W., whom I see occasionally because his job brings him into DC from time to time.

After this vacation though, I'm going to seriously start worrying about the money situation; I've got plenty to live on for a while, but I'd just feel so much better if there was a more frequent paycheck coming in. I'm busy working through my "teach yourself perl" book and a basic DHTML book to try to add some stuff to my resume. I kind of miss doing actual web site development; the last few years I've done way more server admin and system administration work than anything else and my web development skills have started to atrophy. Then perhaps I'll post a profile on guru.com and let the headhunters have at. Hopefully.

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Skipped going to the gym tonight (so far, anyway; it's open 24/7 so if I start feeling truly guilty at 3 am, I can still go). Need to keep up with that, or else it's not going to do me any good. Also need to remember to bring in my certificate for an hour with a personal trainer so I can set up a weight training routine. I'm still much better about going to this gym than I ever have been about any of the others, so I'm not getting worried yet.

Tonight's project: working through the "Essential CSS & DHTML for Web Professionals" book I bought yesterday (it sucks, don't bother; go straight for the O'Reilly books) and then reviewing the HTML 4 specs. If those get finished, back to the perl book. I was given the task today to think about exactly what kind of work it is that I want to do; I hate that. What do I want to be when I grow up? I'm feeling though that the type of work that I'd really rather do is not the type of work that my boss is really interested in going after. I just wanna be a codebot and sit in my office all day with music and write HTML/Javascript/Cold Fusion and not have to deal with people face to face. E. I think is going more after consulting work. Heh. Consulting is so what I need to be doing, what with all my mad people skillz. ;)

Bummer. My "One time, at band camp..." tshirt that I ordered last night is out of stock and not coming back.