You can always use this time to try and learn new things, for instance , when I was grounded, I asked my parents for a half a hour more on the computer before I was, they said ok, I printed out a tuturial on HTML, and before the week was over, I ended up learning it, but like you said, no books. So , think hard, make an imaginry friend or something, that or wait for the PSP and or get a DS when you got enough $. O well, just suggestions, I think you already thought them up, goodluck.