All too true. I'm the same way, I need a goal, some sort of project to motivate me. Currently, mainemenu.com is my pet project. I started it as a project to learn some php, but I got my fill of that pretty quickly and am converting over to perl now. So far I've figured out the goodness of HTML::Template and I'm beginning to get a handle on Class::DBI.

Perhaps you could apply some of useful tidbits from this thread to your post. Especially since, as of this writing, the vote is 5/54/0 in favor of moving it to a more permanent section of the monastary.