Don't you watch the anti-drug commercials? Smoking makes you lay bored on a couch all day! You should try drinking...commercials indicate you should be in a constant state of partying.
Yeah. I did drink a bit, but drinking alone is sad, so I stopped.
Write a battle.net server clone with linking support. Try to imitate the behavior of battle.net from 1998-99.
It's fun to write bots to have cock fights with other bots...just no environment to do it now.
This should keep you plenty busy. Linking support is tricky...I would look at IRC RFC to get an idea of how to do it. IRC networks split often so this is desirable, as odd as that sounds.