Pah...had a cold all weekend and it's still hanging on...symptoms are fairly easy to control with decongestants, Dayquil / Nyquil etc...but the way my body deals with sickness is making me sleep for vast lengths of time; in the past 3 days I've probably been awake for 10 hours in total!
So, plan is to get back to work tomorrow...well, we'll see...not looking too likely so far! It also sucks that my family are all about 5000 miles away...only thing worse than being sick is being sick with no-one to complain to about it...
Anyway, on the rare occasions I've been awake I've been catching up on reading...books of choice:
Pro C# with .NET3.0, Special Edition
Excellent book, covers WCF, WPF, LINQ as well as very complete coverage of all .NET features...recommended! Also an excellent club in danger situations!
Programming WPF
Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths wrote this...all I need, really excellent book and very readable (which helps)
Professional ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX (Programmer to Programmer)
Again, all you need to know is that Matt Gibbs and Dan Wahlin wrote this, very complete coverage of everything you need to know about this technology (best Wrox book I've seen in a while too!) (image looks kinda flaky...just a book cover though!)
Data Structures and Algorithms Using C#
Oh dear...hmm...about the worst book I've read in a while...great idea and really valuable in theory but this book is terribly edited and full of errors. Also, oddly incomplete in it's coverage DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!
So as you can see, getting back up to speed on development topics, I'm talking to some different teams at MS about getting back into a development related position...nothing immediate but it certainly figures in my plans!