I want to get starter with rudiments... I've haven;t played for a while and have kind of lost that stuff. How do you think I should start without a teacher? A book? Read stuff on the net?

 A good method book for learning the rudiments on your own is the Buddy Rich's Modern Interpretation of Snare drum Rudiments  
   It will teach you to read as you go along also . Maybe just to get a jump start before taking lessons from a good teacher to save some time and money while your on the clock .
     On the net there are many good sites to check  out , I'll link you to a few here .

The drum club rudimental page

The Drum Beat  Video Lessions with Dave Hall
*note- while veiwing the lession videos you can pause or rewind the video by right clicking on the video and a menu drops down .

I don't know if you will find this helpful at all,  but Gary Chaffee has some superior books and video's which deal in part with rudiments and their applications.   It's the later part that interests me  -the application aspect.    Chaffee's thing is to get the most mileage you can out of any given rudiment.    It seems to me that many drum kit players get too involved with the technical perfection of a rudiment (as played on a practice pad)  as opposed to perfecting it in more musical ways.   Even a basic paradiddle can be applied (and often disguised) as a million different cool grooves on the kit.   I'm not trying to give you  drum lesson....but if I was starting over...I'd be making the most out of my practice time!   I'd learn early to apply the rudiments in a more musical way....setting them up as ostinatos or playing ostinatos on the feet and applying a given rudiment(s) around the kit.    Remembering back,  there was a time when I could play music AND a couple dozen rudiments....just not at the same time!