I’m home from the great white north. I had a super visit with my family and literally saw just about everyone except my sister, Emily and a handful of cousins who were off spring-breaking all over the country.

I enjoy Jenny and Chris more and more with each visit. My aunt shared pictures of some of her hiking excursions that were amazing and renewed my interest in planning a camping/hiking trip with Katie and Nicole this Spring. Though I suspect that time and money are now going to be a road block for that excursion thanks to the layoff.

My mother’s father is still ticking along just as cute as he can be. The only downside to that visit was his talk about the rapture and all the signs of the end times that are happening right now in the middle east. He’s also apparently been having late night visions/deliriums that are fueling this sort of thing and has nothing better to do during the day but watch the news and local religious programming. Grandma shared a bunch of old photos and a family history written by her father, which was fascinating.

I got a speeding ticket in Dublin, Ohio doing 35 miles an hour in what was apparently an active school zone. I didn’t notice that because I was lost and trying to get turned around. Feh.

And now I’m home and trying to figure out what happens next.

I need to keep refining my resume because I’m still not happy with it. I had this terrific resume in December but it is so centered on my work at my last job that it’s kinda weird. I have this job to add, which I spent all of three months on, compared to the nearly three years previous and there’s just not as much to say about it. So putting it on top of this expose section for ASHTRAY just seems ridiculous. I guess I’m going to have to scale ASHTRAY down a tad.

And, stemming from that project is my desire to create an actual online resume appropriate to the medium, rather than just pasting my Word resume up there in html. I’ve found several good example sites that I’d like to mimic but that is also time consuming. And while I may have nothing but time right now it’s hard to focus on chores like that when it feels like I should be spending every second drumming up freelance work and scouring Monster for jobs to apply for.

I did win a $3 book on e-bay yesterday. Clearly that was time well spent.

So, that’s where things stand at the moment. I think I’m going to work out some sort of block schedule for my days so that I can commit x hours to job hunting, x hours to freelance and x hours to resume and Web projects. Maybe that way I’ll feel more organized and won’t just spend three solid days working on my site.