If you can afford it, enjoy the time off. :) I'd suggest practicing your front-end (vanilla JS and CSS) foo, and maybe some low-level C hacking, because those

If you can afford it, enjoy the time off. :) I'd suggest practicing your front-end (vanilla JS and CSS) foo, and maybe some low-level C hacking, because those are skills that kinda seem to be languishing in a lot of places. Alternately, go check out some non-mainstream languages like Prolog, some kind of ML (Haskell or OCaml), or maybe something really off-the-wall like Smalltalk or Forth. Do at least some of your own projects, because that gives you a bit more insight into why certain decisions get made, and gives you a chance to try and plan for others and see what that mindset is like. I'm actually taking a sabbatical/funemployment in a couple of weeks, so if you want somebody to brainstorm/bullshit with, hit me up on email (in my profile).