Bubba comes over, giddy with excitement at the thought of his upcoming monthly vacation from ESPN viewing. "Man! How can you stay put day after day and year after year? Decade after decade?! I'd go crazy!" Me: "Here's an experiment for you. Leave your bag of marijuana home on this next road trip of yours". And at that point he frowns and slinks into his chair, as if gut-shot. "That would suck? It would be boring as hell? Or at the most, barely worth the trouble? You'd almost rather stay home and do something constructive … like work?"